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OUR LONDON LETTER

... Conservatives are all alive; they bave most energetic and efficient agents, and plenty of money. On the other hand, E the Whigs are supine, listless, have no rallying point, and no agents worthy of the name. Neither are the Liberals to be depended upon ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3568 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MEETING OF THE NATIONAL REFORM UNION

... working man he asked his fellow working men what they intended to I do? Were they prepared for ever to be fed with r political Whig spoon meat?-(laughter.) Did t they not believe that their stomachs were able to I hbear a more substantial diet? Did they think ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1495 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE BUTESHIRE ELECTION

... that the nation owed that prosperity to its present form' of government and equally-balanuced constitution. r An' eminent'Whig statesmen had said Rest lk and be thankful. They were aware to whom t he alluded. Such a sentiment was but natu- I ral. Many ...

Published: Monday 16 January 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1608 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

FRANCH

... of- !n., Lord WalIi gha as.a candidate in opposition' Kyi Mr B.. Gnrdon, the ,Whig sitting! member for the ny division. .Therelissatipresent'a ecompromise be- ny tween the Whig ani .Conservative leaders,' Mr hel G. W. P.. lBeutiak.and Mr B.' Gurdon having ...

Published: Monday 16 January 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2614 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... of them who read, and think, and comprehend more or less clearly the posi- tion of political affairs know and proclaim the Whigs to be tbufickers upon false pretences ; therefore it is mere insolence or mere folly to assert that, at the next general election ...

Published: Tuesday 17 January 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2127 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Court and Fashion

... and its results so far ; the decep- it tions practised on the people of this country by ci its rank Tory and still ranker Whig Press, and hi the aberrations occasioned by the thousand and one predictions of that same Press- predictions all known now ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4227 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... lie down with the kid. Tory, Whig, and Liberal will all fraternise and, like brethren, dwell together in unity. Has the golden age come at length ?. It would almost seem as if it had. Do we not hear politicians, both Whig and Tory, speaking the same language ...

Published: Thursday 19 January 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5570 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MR BRIGHT AT BIRMINGHAM

... le sibilitv of rejecting it. That Bill was not dead, a a- but had again taken shape, and the Tories, as rsr well as those Whigs who were so like Tories, had an uncomfortable feeling, so unoomfortable that it came almost to a shiver-(laughter), wnat ap- ...

Published: Thursday 19 January 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2999 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MR BRIGHT'S SPEECH AT BIRMINGHAM

... Bill,' or that question, is not dead. It'takes shape again, and you will perceive that the Tor'ies, and those Whigs who aite like Tories-all Whigs are act like Tories, and 'therefore I make the distinction-have an uncomfortable feeling that approaches almnost ...

Published: Friday 20 January 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4636 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... necessary to secure the Irish votes atthecoming election ; and then he says, unless the Government do some- thing the Whigs will be nowhere. Ireland is, then, to be bribed with public money instead of justice. A FUNERAL PnOCESSION SNOWSBALLWD.-A ...

Published: Saturday 21 January 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2833 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MR DUNLOP, M.P., AT GREENOCK

... entrusted to them. The question of re. form war only used to acemplish ulch a union in the Liberal ranks as should enailb tile Whigs to turn out the 'Tories, and settle themselves in their place-(hear, hear)-and having accom- plished that object, the cold ...

Published: Saturday 21 January 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6063 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... object of the nation, as upon it alone can any sound founda- tion of'. national-happiness and prosperity >kea laid, Whatever a Whig or a Tory may consi-'1 der to be the fitness of a working' man for thea exercise of public functions, itis inexcusable to assail ...

Published: Monday 23 January 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4029 | Page: 2 | Tags: News