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SKETCHES OF BRITISH STATESMEN AND M.P.'S

... oflice of Financial Secrctary e to the Treasury, wlieh he retained till Feb. 1852. f In this month it u-ill be remembered the Whigs b -vent out, and Lord Derby, Mr Disraeli, and their n followers mounted to office ; and now comes a 1,lauk in Sir George's ...

Published: Friday 03 January 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4385 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... 'by Lord Derby's Government that we embraced it readily, and used our best exertions to work it into a practical fact. Our Whig' cotem- poraries, to whom it is ever a sin unpardonable to admit the possibility of a good thing being originated by a Tory ...

Published: Tuesday 07 January 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2270 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SKETCHES OF BRITISH STATESMEN

... more permanent, seat on the judicial bench. Mr Whiteside is, however, on the wrong side for speedy promotion. Had lie been a Whig ie would long ago have been offered a judgeship; for since he has been in the House many of his cotemporaries, and no, a few ...

Published: Wednesday 22 January 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3340 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

DINNER TO MR ELLICE, M.P., AT ST ANDREWS

... non- position which this cointry bad held' since 1838; the and he was sure that nien of all classes, whether ;u ud Tories, Whigs, or Radicals, would all unite in en- al ao deavouring to maintain our institutions on the had safe and satisfactory basis that ...

Published: Thursday 23 January 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5489 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

... Naval Committee has reported a Bill for t ey the construction of twenty mail-clad steam gun- c re- boats. I us- The Richmond Whig, alluding to the sinking of ny vessels in Charleston Harbour, says that the hv e North has taken the first step towards making ...

Published: Thursday 23 January 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1834 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SKETCHES OF BRITISH STATESMEN AND M.P.'S

... > Decembel in thG samie year, for then t1he Whigs oe -rent cut and Sir Robert I'eM came in, ancd Sir 0 Ceorge got a sliglht cheek in his career. It was, BL bowsveci, slight anm zhort, for in 1835 the Whigs ir -rotnted to office agsL, anid Sir George was ...

Published: Monday 03 February 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3237 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Letters to the Editor

... be'aware lyof Citizen's relation to the sanitary improvement *f- of Edinburgh, that it is fancied he has been caught in I, the Whig trap ! ty The gist of Municipalian's letter consists of these le three things-1st, That very little control of local af- ...

Published: Saturday 08 March 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3448 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

FRANCE

... dis- aasters; but in the heart of a people resolved to Ibe free, disasters stimulate to increased exertions. . The Richmound Whig thinks Jeff Davis's Go- vernment the most lamentable failure in history, I and thinks the helm should be surrendered to abler ...

Published: Tuesday 11 March 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2559 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FRANCE

... tion of the Board, adversely to the repeated re- moustrances of the Irish people, is one of those problems which abound in Whig administration, and which are yet to be solved. Tim RETURN OF MAJOR O'RELLY.-The Daily Eeprese says that the petition against ...

Published: Thursday 27 March 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1004 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... excluded from Brooks's Club. Once, andl olyl once, I stepped into the hall of the outer court of this celebrated temple of Whig supercili.uus- d uess and pride, and I shall iot suon forget iny l adventure. I wanited to get an address of one of 56 the ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2146 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION OF SATURDAY

... the House. The Daily Naews ttbnks tl'e capitulation of the Government humiliating. The Jierald says, of all the episodes of Whig n'nlioistration, the eventful career of the Revised Code is the most discreditable and humiliating. Her Majesty's new yacht ...

Published: Monday 31 March 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 496 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... average Bri- tish AA hig-and many a sober mnob-hating indi- vidual, who reckons himself a souii(l Tory, is e just precisely a Whig cut after the famous Edin- C burgrh pattern-the idea of asking the help of g God or the blessing of Providence on anything ...

Published: Wednesday 02 April 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5194 | Page: 2 | Tags: News