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DEATH OF SIR ANDREW LEITH* HAY. We regret to announce the death of the Convener of Aberdeenshire,- Sir Andrew Leith

... which ultimately carried the Reform Bill, Sir Andrew was returned member for the Elgin burghs in 1832. He received from the Whig Government the ap- I pointment Clerk of the Ordnance, which he held until 1835. In 1838, he was appointed Governor of Bermuda ...

Published: Thursday 16 October 1862
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 493 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE WYCOMBE ELECTION

... While thus representing the old Jacobite clan and chiefship, Lochiel, by the maternal side, claims kindred with the eminent Whig statesman whose resistance to the arbitrary mandates of Charles the First formed the commencement of the great English struggle ...

Published: Thursday 27 March 1862
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 705 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

General News

... monarchy Pourrics.—The Herald alludes to of a disseusion in the M of the breakdown and in that no modified ad- acceptabie to Whig Ministry @ill be im the Government with which the is, it says, no would be able to They are all in Her Majesty's should be ...

Published: Thursday 27 November 1862
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 333 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SHERIFFSHIPS IN SCOTLAND

... SHERIFFSHIPS IN SCOTLAND. Considerable attention has recently been attracted to legal promotions. The Whigs have been so long in °dee, and so many deaths and resignations have taken place, that in order to follow out their rule—as unswervingly followed ...

MURDER AT BALLYLESSON, NEAR BELFAST

... MURDER AT BALLYLESSON, NEAR BELFAST. Or the other dreadful murder, er, that of Charles Wi we give the following Whig :-— from the ™ Charles Wilgar, the deceased, on Saturday evening last, after finishing his work, ing home ; but, pre- vious to doing so ...

Published: Thursday 22 May 1862
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 386 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SHERIFFSHIPS IN SCOTLAND

... SHERIFFSHIPS IN SCOTLAND. Considerable attention has recently been attracted to legal promotions. The Whigs ha%t been so long in office, and so many deaths and resignations have taken place, that in order to follow out their rule—as unswervingly followed ...

Published: Saturday 06 December 1862
Newspaper: Saturday Inverness Advertiser
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 562 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ARRIVAL OF THE ETNA

... against the rapture of Messrs Meson & Slidell, declaring the set not to be in accortianes with international law. The Riehmond Whig, referring to Mr Seward's despatch on the Trent question, thinks England will renew her demands for apology and such avowals ...

Published: Saturday 25 January 1862
Newspaper: Saturday Inverness Advertiser
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 546 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DEATH OF THE MARQUIS OF BREADALBANE. The illness of this esteemed nobleman terminated fatally at Lausanne ..

... considered ho}>eless. Lord Breadalbane, by his energy, his talents, and his vast possessions, was long a valuable member of the Whig part}' in Scotland. As Earl of Ormelie, before his succession to the Peerage, he stood, in 1832, a contest for the representation ...

Published: Thursday 13 November 1862
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 398 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE FLIGHT FROM THE STATF.S

... 200; again on morning the Pierrepont was filled. The Kingston Whig uorroborates the news, and states that some of the refugees are deserters from the Federal army. These men, adds the Whig, are spreading themselves abroad, not loafing about town, but ...

LATEST NEWS

... heart uf a peo; y net with serious disasters; stimulate to increase exe: le resolved to be free disasters rtions. The Richmond Whig thinks Jefferson Davis's Govern. ment the must iamental) le failure iu history, and thinks the helm should be su rreadered ...

Published: Thursday 13 March 1862
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 448 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MURDER OF JOHN HERDMAN, ESQ., OF BELFAST

... MURDER OF JOHN HERDMAN, ESQ, OF BELFAST. From the Northern Whig. ) WE give the following particulars of this shocking man had invited a few friends to dinner at his residence tragedy :—It appears that on Thursday evening Mr Herd- at Cliftonville. Afterdinner ...

Published: Thursday 22 May 1862
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 400 | Page: 3 | Tags: none