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THE WEEKLY HERALD. & MERCURY £:Of SATURDAY FIRST will contain— —A Liberal Conservative and Illiberal Whig —The ..

... THE WEEKLY HERALD. & MERCURY £:Of SATURDAY FIRST will contain— —A Liberal Conservative and Illiberal Whig —The Irish Church (Question—A Pretty Muni- cipal Pickle. Local News. —lmportant Meeting of Town Council— The Hypothec Commission Sudden Death at ...

Published: Thursday 26 January 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: 1 | Tags: Commerce 

SUMMARY

... Lament the Whig, the vote showing, for Mr Boyle 205, and for Mr Lament 190—majority, 15. No true Liberal will regret the result. Better, as we have already said, to have Liberal-Conservative who has a belief and character than nondescript Whigs who profess ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 384 | Page: 2 | Tags: Commerce 

A POLITICAL GAME

... Monsell is, please to note, Whig, though a Roman Catholic. He once held office in the Aberdeen composite Government, and I fancy would not at all object to hold office again. At all events he Whig, and always anxious to serve the Whig Government when he can ...

Published: Saturday 17 June 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 771 | Page: 3 | Tags: Commerce 

THE FRANCHISE A RIGHT

... was necessary to support the Whig BUI, because the Liberals, too, were going down the scale, and I thought it best to arrest.the downward tendency. But afterwards I saw that the Whig Bill was dangerous (that is, the Whigs having secured office, desired ...

Published: Saturday 10 June 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1443 | Page: 3 | Tags: Commerce 

pDTNBURGH ELECTION. FELLOW KLKCTOKS, Who pled that conscience would not lot him pnjr the Aonnitj-Ui ADAtf BLACK ..

... THE LORD ADVOCATE. Who defended the Chancellor's discreditable practices i - THIS LORD ADYOOATS. Who does the dirty work the Whig Government LORD ADVOCATE. Who bring* In Bills which nothing hot create offices with large salaries ? THE LORD ADVOCATE. Who ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 156 | Page: 1 | Tags: Commerce 

THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1865

... support him. Had Lord Palmerston been spared to meet the new Parliament he should have had the support of pure Tories, pure Whigs, and pure Palmers ton ites in his policy of inaction. He would have declined to introduce a Reform Bill; and even though he ...

Published: Thursday 02 November 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3314 | Page: 2 | Tags: Commerce 

TO THE ELECTORS AND NON-ELECTORS

... refuse to vote at all, leaving the pure Whigs to fight it out single-handed with the Tories.” Had this course been adopted, Reform would not have been betrayed and abandoned it has been in the last Parliament. The Whig Government could never have stood against ...

Published: Tuesday 11 July 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1341 | Page: 1 | Tags: Commerce 

HOPE FOE EDINBURGH

... ns indicated ; but, Ist him take my word for it, these will be taxed to the utmost before Mr Colston is done with him. The Whig clique and the intolerant party were wont to view Mr Colston with indifference, if not with complacency ; but now that has ...

Published: Monday 16 October 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 425 | Page: 2 | Tags: Commerce 

The weekly herald a mercury Of SATURDAY FIRST will contain— Liaders. The Deep-dyed Villain Win, the Murderer of ..

... Traffic—Death of Sir James Fergusson—Dalkeith Horticultural Society Raids for Ministers’ Money—The Annuity-tax Association—The late Whig Scandal —The Lord Advocate’s Jobbery—Anti-Annuitytax Deputation to John Bright, M.P.—Serious Fire at Kirkcaldy —Edinburgh Town ...

Published: Friday 15 September 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 303 | Page: 1 | Tags: Commerce 

London : F. Pitman, 20 Paternoster Row, E.C

... Paternoster Row, E.C. The weekly herald & mercury Of SATURDAY FIRST will contain— Leaders. —A Liberal Conservative and Illiberal Whig —The Irish Church Question— Pretty Municipal Pickle. Local News.—lmportant Meeting of Town Council The Hypothec Commission ...

Published: Friday 27 January 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 382 | Page: 1 | Tags: Commerce 

THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY WEDNESDAY. APRIL 12, 1865

... as to how he ought to vote. The contest is not between a Whig and Tory ; for if it had, there might have been room for some perplexity in coming a decision. Whigs —that is, Palraerstonian Whigs (who, let us remark, have given the name such a bad odour ...

Published: Wednesday 12 April 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3497 | Page: 2 | Tags: Commerce