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MR GRANT DUFF AT ELGIN

... who looks events through other than ministerial spectacles is pronounced unsafe; and, if at all possible, Parliament House Whigs oust him from his position. A member of the House of Commons who does not say amen to their shibboleth is an object of the ...

Published: Saturday 12 September 1863
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1531 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LATEST NEWS

... before Charleston, and that terrible battle between the land forces was progressing within sight of the city. The Richmond Whig contains Charleston despatches, dated the inst., stating that people and troops were high spirits the result the fight yesteiday ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1863
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 415 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Cameron, expressing his regret at being absent from the meeting yesterday, and requesting the Presbytery to ..

... dishonesty that made them place Earl RUSSELL in the position of the leader of his own party in all the measures which the Whigs have carried, and caused them to omit all reference to the services which the statesmen of other parties have rendered to their ...

Published: Thursday 01 October 1863
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1141 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

EARL RUSSELL

... altogether premature to conclude he is therefore lost to the country. It is eight years now since a certain section of tbe Whig party made something like that mistake, and we have no desire to repeat its blunder. There is life in the old dog yet. We have ...

Published: Wednesday 25 November 1863
Newspaper: Dunfermline Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1628 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE CONGREGATIONAL UNION

... he has not the courage put it plainly—What will be the influence, and what the relations of the contemplated union, upon the Whig party in Scotland It is not how will the Union tell upon piety, but how will it tell at the poll booth. Scotch members of ...

Published: Wednesday 23 December 1863
Newspaper: Dunfermline Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1631 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

EXECUTION OF A FEDERAL SPY

... Kellogg, about thirty-three years of age, convicted of being spy, was executed at Richmond on the 25th September. The Richmond Whig gives the following iccount of the execution : short but impressive prayer was then offered by the minister, at the conclusion ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1863
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 458 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ART, LITERATURE, & SCIENCE

... Horse having been letrenched), has been produced at tbe Theatre Lynque, in Paris. The London correspondent of the Northern Whig writes;— The enormous success of ' Bel Demonio ' has been somewhat dearly purchased by Mr Fetcher. whose unwearied exertions ...

Published: Wednesday 18 November 1863
Newspaper: Dunfermline Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 463 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE EARL OF ELGIN. The death of Lord Elgin has already formed the subject of copious elegy in the leading

... opponents. Ho acceded to the invitation, and started as candidate, with considerable prospects of success. Meanwhile, however, the Whigs took alarm, and Captain Wemyss re-appeared in the field, having received the support of the most influential Radical leaders ...

Published: Thursday 17 December 1863
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2437 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AYRSHIRE AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION

... of this-viz., our political and social condition Ido not intend that we should discuss political subjects, such as whether Whig or Tory Government is best for us, but how we are affected by the present laws. Merchants and other classes do this,and why ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1863
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 598 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MR GLADSTONE'S BUDGET

... illiberally with Gladstone. Had the Chancellor been man to snuffed out by article, or damned the faint praise of reactionary Whigs, he must long since have handed over the national finances to the care of some good and safe intellectual weakling of the upper ...

Published: Saturday 18 April 1863
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1217 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE DUNBOG CASE

... we would much rather not write about. But on these, as on many other subjects, inclination must succumb to duty. A leading Whig journal describes Dunbog as hitherto a quiet aud inconspicuous parish. Population 207.'' We suspect that the eniallness and ...

Published: Wednesday 14 January 1863
Newspaper: Dunfermline Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1283 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Summary

... vigorously bombarded, and the Richmond Whig states that tbe fire of the 200-pounders was proving too much for the walls of the fort. An indication of the desperate position of affairs in the stronghold is, that the Whig repeats the old bunkum about defending ...

Published: Wednesday 02 September 1863
Newspaper: Dunfermline Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1335 | Page: 2 | Tags: none