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THE MANSE AND THE FRANCHISE

... THE MANSE AND THE FRANCHISE. Political reform has reached the point which exhausts the programme of traditional Whigs. d& not wonder, in such circumstances, that the Nestor of the party invites us to rest and be thankful. There is, no doubt, much to ...

Published: Saturday 03 October 1863
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1451 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Proposal to Turn the Great Eastern jx Floatino Hotel.—The easiest thing with her be to anchor her oil' Cowes, and

... an advanced agein his ninety-second year Sunday. With him has perished the last surviving member of the famous Westminister Whig Committee, the proceedings of which, at the beginning of the present century, Paul Thelwal and Home Tooke were intimately concerned ...

Published: Thursday 08 October 1863
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 205 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Rumoured Royal Betrothal. —A rumour, said to be apparently well founded, is current at Rio Janeiro, that the ..

... in that position :—Dr James Ilagan took hold in 1837, had a number of street lights, a duel with his brother editor of The Whig, and was killed 1842, in street fight, D. W. Adams. His assistant, Isaac C. Partridge, died of yellow fever in 1839. Dr J. ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1863
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 587 | 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

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

SUMMARY

... of 149. The majority is certainly larger than might have been anticipated a burgh so long represented by the Nestor of the Whigs; but seeing a general election will shortly take place, it likely that the Liberal! will profit their prawn! uuexpected di ...

Published: Thursday 15 October 1863
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1258 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

'Kelm of the Weft

... Addressing his admirers from the window of his hotel, the hon. gentleman said 'he was a Tory a good old Tory, and hated a Whig as the devil hated holy water.' CONSERVATIVE CAINE IN THE ENGLISH RIEGISTRA. nos COURTS. —The revision of the voters' list ...

Published: Thursday 08 October 1863
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 880 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... fighting the enemy has been driven from several positions, but still confronts him. He captured guns and prisoners. The Richmond Whig estimates the Confederate loss at men. including generals killed and 7 wounded. The Federal loss is estimated at 12,000 men ...

Published: Thursday 08 October 1863
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1833 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA

... extortion, give aid and comfort to the enemy, and forfeit their lives for the commission of overt acts of tieason. And in the Whig of October 4, I find the following:— But while the country gentlemen are exerting themselves as patriotically, we trust the ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1863
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2815 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

General News

... by very old and very young gentleman, to whom handsome women scantily attired are attractive.— Edmund Yates in the Northern Whig. The Rev. Guthrie.—During divine service on Sabbath, in the Free St John's, the Rev. Dr Hanna read a letter from Dr Guthrie ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1863
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2742 | Page: 6 | Tags: none