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OUR LONDON LETTER

... to pluck the jewel of place. Well, I hope they won't, adi do not believe they will. Not that one would much grieve if the Whigs were to go out; but heaven forbid that the noble Lord should go out by such a dirty road as this. That no honourable man',would ...

Published: Saturday 07 November 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2596 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... great cause of the defeat at Devouport; but there were other, though smaller causes. The haughty, contemptuous pride of the Whigs-that quality for which they are so noted- was one. I am told that when the vacancy occurred, no one at Devonport was consulted ...

Published: Saturday 21 February 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2687 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

... Ambassador at Rome is said to have brought to the Emperor an important letter from the Pope. The Herald complains that the Whigs are having recourse to wholesale bribery at Andover to secure their candidate's return. THE DEATH O THE KING or DENIARaK.-Tihe ...

Published: Tuesday 17 November 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1085 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FRANCE

... fully competent for the post among those who are habitual sup- porters of Lord Palmerston, without belonging immediately to the Whig party. The Times, on the whole, approves of the appointments, and the policy they represent of nominating the best- qualified ...

Published: Wednesday 22 April 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1133 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Letters to the Editor

... were made by the Fallen Angels. EsxtoxR ION OF TWO HUNDBEED AND FIFTY. THREE INDI-vTDUALS.-On Thursday, says the Nforthe~-m Whig, 253 persons, lately under the care of the committee of the Lisbon Relief Fund, left Belfast, in the Old Hlickory, Captain ...

Published: Monday 01 June 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1174 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... his constituents. Why should he ?? His only constituent, defacto, is tbe noble Earl, and he being himself a, member of the Whig Government is, of course, perfectly satisfied with his colleague. There has been no contest at Morpeth- since the passing of ...

Published: Saturday 28 November 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2571 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... ai stnt in a Bill recommending a loan of 900,000,000 dollars. IT must be regarded by our Conservative and U not a few of our Whig friends as a dreadful d, calamity that the Revenue Returns of the past c year should show an increase of two round t millions ...

Published: Monday 05 January 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3914 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE MISSIONARY CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT

... Church question is a question of justice, of morality, of religion, and not of figures and averages. He who treats it as the Whigs treated it of old (but with more excuse) degrades it. What it is unjust to inflict on a large minority, it is equally unjust ...

Published: Saturday 04 July 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1383 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

Letters to the Editor

... Majesty. The Herald is jubilant at the Conservative return for Devonport, and says it again shows that the country is tired of Whig management. TaE INSURRECTION IN POLuD.-The Post says that if this insurrection should be crushed by Rlnssia, Europe will have ...

Published: Saturday 14 February 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1333 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... pure and holy, others more or less of the earth, earthy. I fancy, how- ever, that if there bad been no other motives in the Whigs of 1836 but the pure and holy, we should not have got the Reform Bill. Indeed, not to attribute to others motives which I am ...

Published: Saturday 03 October 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2619 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... signs of ability which, if he had not been a Duke's son, would have attracted the slightest attention. Because he was a great Whig Duke's son, he was put up in 1859 to move a vote of want of confidence in the Derby Government; and I remember the business ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2914 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... of both. There was for some twenty years an Earl Lud- low. This gentleman-I forget his patronymic -was made a peer by the Whigs, mainly, I suspect, because he was an intimate friend of the Duke of Bedford. When he died, without issue or near relatives ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2711 | Page: 3 | Tags: News