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THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE WHIG PARTY

... THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE WHIG PARTY. The Manchester Examiner, in an article on the Liberation Society's Conference at Manchester, writes thus of Mr Miall's speech and of the Whig party:- In the paper read by Mr Miall before the Liberation Society's ...

Published: Monday 23 November 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1144 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

OCCASIONAL HOMILIES ON COMMONPLACE SUBJECTS

... at that party less capable of embarrassing the Whigs, to while it snakes the Whigs more able to resist their ill natural enemies, the Tories. This judicious ed eclecticism is one leading element of Whig policy. a- It is acted upon only when the interests ...

Published: Tuesday 07 April 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3204 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

PARTY COMPLEXION OF THE EDINBURGH PALMERSTON BANQUET

... ?? the Courwat.) A cll ms,rv ?? of the list of stewards of the Pahlersto 'n Dinner is sufficient to show that a Whig -ax Ld only a Whig-denionstration is intended. We see, indeed, amonlg the Peers two or three names of' iaten of really historical families ...

Published: Saturday 21 March 1863
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1011 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

TORYISM AND MINISTERIAL WHIGGISM IN EDINBURGH

... TORYISM AND MINISTERIAL WHIGGISM IN EDINBURGIH. Our Tory cetemporary, the Courant, concludes an article on the Whig Banquet to Lord Palmer- ston thus:- The great man of the evening having set such a respectable example, any ?? oratory would have had ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 507 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

BRITISH PRESS FLUNKEYISM

... loss. Literary gentlemen of the Whig persuasion assure us that the death at eighty of a gentleman s who was a Radical in 1815, and a fanatical Con. servative convert in 186l3, who in 1.S31 carried the bag for the Whigs, and as Patronage Secretary s and ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1194 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... people that they have no principles that may not be conveniently ridiculed and set aside ; that Whigs and Tories are alike, with this difference, that the Whigs deem themselves entitled, by a sort of hereditary or Divine right, to enjoy the emoluments and ...

Published: Tuesday 13 October 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3903 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Court and Fashion

... repeating the announcement, and removing all doubt on the subject. An Old Whig'-Osr remarks apply to the mo1ern, not the old Whigs of the city. When referring to the Whigs of the present day we always make the necessary distinction between them and ...

Published: Wednesday 29 April 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 802 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE PRISON MINISTERS' BILL A POLITICAL BRIBE

... readers at the time, Catholics hal pinned themselves to the coat tails (if the Whig , Liberals, and had identified theniselves with the Liberal party to an extent which made the Whig Liberals reckon on their support whatever they might do ; while the Tory party ...

Published: Wednesday 24 June 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 857 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

EDINBURGH AND THE CLERICO-POLICE TAX

... ?? not be. alarmedl-it is sou-ething mrore serions thin tole Social Soience squablule. T'l'ins to the l:i:i!ip,. lation of Whig oficials an .hld sore has br! ''jt -with fresh virulence. If I lnistaklie n' ' Mr Disraeli at one time propodei to ab ?? e) ...

Published: Thursday 31 December 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1416 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FACTS ABOUT PALMERSTON

... 1841, when the Whigs formerly died oat; but there will now be no Anti-Corn-law League to bring them back again to power. I thought the rorthere-climate made people more canny than their neigbbours; but it does not seem as though pour Whigs see further ...

Published: Friday 20 March 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 765 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MR BRIGHT AT ROCHDALE

... John Russell and the great and a powerful Whig families without which no Whig a Government can live- they can live a long time E without the support of the great constituencies, I but not withoutthe great Whig families- cheers). They were more in favour ...

Published: Thursday 26 November 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5688 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE SHORT-SEA PASSAGE VIA DONAGHADEE AND PORTPATRICK

... THE SHORT-SEA, PASSAGE VIA DONAG- I I IiADEE AND PORTPATRIOK. Some two years ago, writes the Yortheris Whig, the line of railway between Newtownards and Donaghadee was completed, at a cost of about £80,000, and upwards of twelve months ago the line ...

Published: Friday 25 September 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 383 | Page: 4 | Tags: News