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THE END OF WHIGGISM

... e we are a majority we are patted on the back, saddled, ridden, and afterwards whipped by some nonentity palmed upon us by Whig recommendations. The chief incidents are invariably the same-the sieve of oats is held out to us to sniff-we look, we suspect ...

Published: Friday 25 September 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 680 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

STATE OF THE CROPS IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND

... STATE OF THE CROPS IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND. The Northern Whig says :-To-day we present our readers with a number of reports on the state of the crops in the North. They have been col- lected with great care by gentlemen of intelligence and integrity, ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 737 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

Letters to the Editor

... C. Edinburgh, March 17, 1863. c _ TUE DINNER TO LORD PALMERSTON. a SIR,-The grumnblinge of your Tory cotemporary asto e the Whig Clique making the proposed dinner to Lord i Palmerston a demonstration in favour of Liberalism in Edinburgh urirst now cease ...

Published: Thursday 19 March 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3175 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... earnest Free- trader. The Whigs were not Free-traders 9 and therefore he could not join the Whigs. For years this gentleman led the forlorn hope against Protection amidst the jeers of the squires, and with no sanport from the Whigs.- At length, however, the ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3366 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

JACOBITE RHYMES

... defeat on Culloden 31r r.le W gie 1art, L-c)u ?? litcrntini :- At first this new- did cn-lse great fear In all inalicins Whigs; But when it catie to Geordie's ear, I'm ttld he brunt his wigs He ornlered north Jon Cope in haste. To eruslh us in the buld; ...

Published: Wednesday 21 January 1863
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 633 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

PROFESSOR NEWMAN ON ORGANIC REFORM

... those whom he addressed. There was another special reason why reform muist be talked of, and that was because both a Tory and Whig Ministry had put into the Queen's mouth a speech upon the subject, and had thus deliberately brought the matter forward before ...

Published: Tuesday 07 April 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1704 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... Commons, as Earl Easton, who succeeds to the dukeilom, was member for Thetford. The Duke of Grafton is always a Whig, one of those hereditary Whigs who trans- mit their principles with their estates. Lord Henry Fitzroy, a son of the late Duke, will take Earl ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1749 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE TORIES AND LORD PALMERSTON'S BANQUET

... that Toryism in Edin- burgh can afford to do without the support of a divided and decaying section of the Parliament- House Whigs, thus expresses itself in reference to the approaching banquet to Lord Palmer- ston:- Whatever splendour the List of Stewards ...

Published: Friday 20 March 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3452 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... unprincipled cha- racter of the Whig Government. Seat after seat escapes the Whigs, and the Tory members must now be in an absolute majority. In these cir- cumstances a vigorous demand for Reform from below would galvanise the Whig benches into action. Men who ...

Published: Monday 30 November 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5633 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Letters to the Editor

... *[r Dymockc belonged to the Liberal party; but all electors must now know that he belongs to that mongrel party of Tory and Whig that now exists among us. I hope the committee that brought forward Mr Lewis will hold together, and be able to tell Mr Jamieson ...

Published: Friday 22 May 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 780 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE SANGUINE SEWARD

... questions about the past. Of what importance is it to our country nowv whether a patriot citizen has been a Democrat, or a Whig, or Republican, or Conservative, or Radical heretofore: Who can say that he himself has never erred, or that his -neighbour ...

Published: Friday 01 May 1863
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 792 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

EARL JOHN RUSSELL'S SPEECH

... British sentiments. The Whig organ that proclaimed on Friday evening, with astonudiug effrontery, that the sympathy of the English people is with the slave-owning Confederacy -must be dismayed to find the greatest of our Whig statesmen declaring on ...

Published: Thursday 01 October 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1917 | Page: 4 | Tags: News