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Letter to the Editor

... no more brains in his head than he ha, 0uusic ito his soul.-I am, &c.,, as NZARLY DISTRACTID BY To-xNonT ' BR,71NG; Ftiday. WHIG JOBBERy. SIR,-I cannot quite concur in the objection, moad by yourself and some of the independent London news. papers to the ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 720 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Letters to the Editor

... Fyfois awellknow citzen r Pussell a ci~icru. hardly kuowu ,at ~ll beypud the precincts of the violent .romorselcos-srumtp of the whig clique.' The iudepeun dent electdri i..ve iie taste'fo. the old yoke so recelaty r rd thorodghly'broken .-2-I am, Lw.,? .~~~ ...

Published: Thursday 26 October 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 543 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

CRACKS AT THE FACTORY GATE

... staunch Chartist at one time), 'this is no like you; ye used aye to take the side'o' the |Whigs, anA defend themi through thick in'd thin., I aye tolled ye that the Whigs were no more our friendi than the Tories; and if a' the worik,. 'ing men had only joined ...

Published: Friday 03 February 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1458 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Letter to the Editor

... recent meeting of Catholics commends itself, I should hope, to all shades of citizens and Christians. No doubt it has taken the Whig clique and its slavish allies by surprise, and many attempts will be made to attribute Mr Campbell's decision to every motive ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1595 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE ENGLISH PRESS ON THE REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH

... Their opponents are Messrs M'Laren and Miller, who come forward to rescue Edinburgh from being ' a nomination burgh of the W~hig Govern. meat' and boast a good deal of their o.wn inde. pendeuce. We are not concerned to defend Mr Black's consistency, or ...

Published: Monday 12 June 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1482 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

CARDINAL JOHN CAW

... I will make those dirty fellows the Towru Councillors do the congenial work. The Town' Council were Radicals then, and the Whig Lord- Advocate wanted to take a rise out of them. The people hate the very name of Annaity- tax, continued the clergy. ...

Published: Friday 11 August 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1676 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MR BAXTER, M.P., ON PROGRESS

... beaten by ten to one-sneering at this time of day, too, at the commercial treaty with France. Let me tell him, and all the Whigs and Tories also, that that one groat measure, carried through by Mr Cobden, who was mainly sup. ported here by Mr Gladstone ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1555 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

MINISTERIAL SPEECHES

... structure of Mr. Cardwvell's speech, that his sympathies draw him, in spito of his earlier connections, raither to tlhe Old Whigs than to the Radical party which is shaping itself under the leader- ship of Mr. Gladstone. He gives no hint of a desire that ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1865
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1708 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH

... of the Whig Goveromient party. I use the words Government party observe, advisedly, be. cause* I have always been a Whig. I am a Whig now, and I object to, men monopolising that designation who have departed from the principles that the Whigs have hitherto ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 8702 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

FRANCE

... connivance n of the Chancellor a public defaulter has obtained a pension of some £800 a year. d The Herald remarks that the Whig Ministers went into the jury-box to their own cause, and R their verdict, carried by a majority of, one, re- v fleets disgrace ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 705 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... that were acknowledged to the Whig canvassers. Why, the Whig clique now know, and no one better than Adam, the fallen and rejected, that Mr Miller gained favur every day whilst the canvassing-early commenced by the Whig- lings-was being carried on ; ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3955 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

TOO SMART

... amiss for a juvenile politician to be in less hurry to run a muck even at old Tory statesmen, to say nothing of all the great Whig greybeards-before he has digested his political spoon-meat. ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1865
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 739 | Page: 8 | Tags: News