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... would sum up the whole as if he had paid the most diligent at- tention to the speakers. GOOD TIMES FOR VOTERS,-The Northern Whig has been exposing the manner in which the sup- porters of Mr Verner, the Tory candidate for Lis- burn, were fed after being ...

Published: Monday 04 May 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2672 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... is im- possible to test these assertions now with accu- racy. In 1852 there was no direct vote of want of confidence in the Whig Government; and in 1858 ?? Ministers went out, on their defeat upon Palmerston's Foreign Conspiracy Bill; but the statements ...

Published: Saturday 04 July 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2592 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

... under General Jones. The whole force was pre- pared on the 20th to march -against Burnside's outposts at Bristol. The Richmond Whig, of the 27th ult., asserts that General Bragg's plan to compel the Federals to evacuate Chattanooga would speedily be exe. ...

Published: Wednesday 11 November 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2480 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... death of the Right Hon. Edward Ellice, M.P. for Coventry, took place at Glengarry on Thursday morning. The Nestor of the Whigs as he was familiarly called by poli- ticians, died at a ripe old age, but suddenly, and unseen by any of his relatives. His ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5512 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE PRESS AND THE AMERICAN WAR

... cotemporaries in upholding ' the cause of the just,' as general Meade so beautifully, but simply, expresses it. With the Northern Whig, which has unswer'- ingly maintained its principles as an advomste for liberty all through this American war, we have' been ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2740 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

LATE intelligence from Chatham states that the health of Lord Clyde does not improve, and that there is

... this way, up till 1725, Murchison faithfully defended for his chief the lands of Kintail and Lochalsh, and, accord- ing to a Whig poem, written in 1737, ' Neither could he by force be driven away, Till his attainted lord and chief of late, By ways and means ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1863
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2730 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... Somers and Lord Monson; and if the Tory should comb in, be it so; that result of the fight woald clearly be at the haughty Whig's door, and be no fault of Mr Wilkinson. It is just possible that Wil- kinson may win if all three candidates stand, -f6r the ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2834 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Letters to the Editor

... educated classes, for w.hom the Cosurants writes, but only a work. ing man, I confess this is news to me. I always thought the Whigs carried the Reform Bill, our Aboli- tionists abolished slavery, our Free-traders the Corn. laws; but I have been wv ong-these ...

Published: Wednesday 25 February 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2809 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE ANTI-CLERICO-POLICE TAX ASSOCIATION

... consideration by this meeting. There was no disguising the fact that the great secret of the success of the Churchmen and the Whig clique- in this city at the present; moment was the thorough. organisation which prevailed iamngst them, and that the many ...

Published: Saturday 12 December 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2758 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

RELIGIOUS EQUALITY AND THE ELECTORAL ACTION OF DISSENTERS

... foreign policy ; blit to this it was replied that public opinion would virtually regulate our foreign affairs, whether the Whigs or the Conservatives were in office ; and it was also suggested that it wvas dangerous for the country to allow its domestic ...

Published: Friday 20 November 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2699 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... ha; suffered long its burdens of taxation ; and if it once rouse itself it will cut off more than either our Conservative-Whig or Whig-Conservative friends may- hold to be consistent with the proper efficiency of the public service. There are only two ...

Published: Friday 06 February 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5961 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Letters to the Editor

... the welfare of the public has, for reasons which he knows, bound him- self never again to declaim against the measures of a whig Lord Advocate. Singular enough, in the early days of the Reformed Town Council, Air Black was the | aun bor of a motion called ...

Published: Tuesday 01 December 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2849 | Page: 3 | Tags: News