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THE LATE WHIG SCANDAL

... kinsfolk and for the relatives of Whig judges. The chief legat appoi'ntiients which hare been of late con-' ferred or teadjustedliave been a'seheriffehip upon Mr Andrew Rutherfurd Clarkc, a uephew. of the late ,W'hig judge, Lord Ruthergurd; another e ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1305 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE CONSERVATIVES OF EDINBURGH AND THE DEPENDENT WHIGS

... OF' EDINBURGH q AND THE DEPENDENT WHIGS. The Conservatives =6f Mlinburgh 'are evidently day'bylday. becoming more and more-alive to the abssrdity of thir giving theirvotesato their arch and;uus cruinls enemies 0,AeV Whigs'-pien .ho almost eveiyWbere, W hile ...

Published: Thursday 29 June 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2894 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... our while to inquire. Certain it is that no Whig official, higbh or low, has yet ventured to tell the country what his party is willing to do to obtain its confidence. There might be some hope of the Whigs if this silence was the effect of shame. We all ...

Published: Saturday 15 April 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1937 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Letter to the Editor

... and representation of the city e- with their constisat voting for the Whig Minist rs On . questions affecting the game of change seats and t the see-saw principle of Up with Whig and down with Tory-will tender their votes for Messrs M'Laren and Miller ...

Published: Monday 26 June 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 746 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

CONSERVATIVE OPPOSITION TO THE LORD ADVOCATE

... Coucrant may be enabled to jadge of what the 'Tories of . this city think of Adam Black, the candidate ,of the Ediuburtlh Whigs,' and of the% Lord Advocate, who soeeus to be desorted, except by his itmmuediate retailers, we clip from ans editorial article ...

Published: Friday 09 June 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 751 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

A CORNISH LANDLORD AND HIS TENANTS

... shortly anticipated, thought I may be excused if I add, that as many of my tenants 'as 'can conscientiously support 'a bona fde Whig candidate, in con- tradistinction to an ultra Radical on the one hand, or a so-called 'LiberaI Conservativei on the other, ...

Published: Friday 10 March 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 536 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Letters to the Editor

... father's death he openly came forward as a Tory. And let it he re' collected that at this period the Whigs were in power and the young Mr Aytoun from his Whig conenxions and high talents was perfectly sureof rapid promotion had he adopted his father's opinions ...

Published: Wednesday 09 August 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 881 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE MINISTRY

... is We4k in the ConmmoniA. Tbe Post remarks that. Earl Rusiell's Ministry is pretty nearly a 'homogeneous Whig Govein. ml nt. Its'almost purely Whig character is, ex.- ternr4ly speaking, a source of great disadvabntage aund'weakness. But where is the Government ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 459 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Letter to the Editor

... Common gratitude and common humanity alike call out for a merciful consi- deration of his present state.-I am, &c., HUMANITAs. WHIG SECTARIAN AND DENOMINATION,1L EDUCATION IN IRELAND. SIn,-In these days when apostacy and ronezgadism from high principles are ...

Published: Thursday 29 June 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 923 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

A HEARTLESS CONSERVATIVE

... Lorid Pialmerstea .-Ihe;, greapt o~stagle, tq iall pro' gress-would produce a weaderful. tqfofrm :Bill.' He did not like the Whigs saying that jthe~y were the frieuds ofthe people, and thrb~tbe'Gouserva- tives had no interest it' the welfareonf the corn ...

Published: Tuesday 24 October 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 545 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Court and Fashion

... glorious band 'of Whigs of wi: hououred aud self-sacrificing age, whose great ex- plbits; strrligles, and gains cornpriase the Reform erA. The degeneruto Whiglings of 1 805, h.d they n6t lost allfrace of oonnectton and identity wvith the Whigs of the pIltny' ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3914 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE SCOTSMAN AND THE CITY ELECTION

... sThe people, the legi. titlate Sourceof political power, wasthe favourite I toast at Whig banquets; butnow, when the people E are no longer disposed to follow Whig dictation, I lt3 journalists pursue them with malediction I and execration' After racking ...

Published: Saturday 19 August 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1635 | Page: 7 | Tags: News