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THE LAST COALITION

... wittily and memorably remarked, Sir Robert Peel and bis colleagues found the Whigs bathing and stole their clothes. Year after year, as the assimilation became more complete, it was Whig votes that Sir Robert Peel c irried many of his chief measures against ...

Published: Tuesday 03 July 1866
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 731 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

THE GLASGOW MEETING

... from its high respectability an 1 wide circulation, has been time out of mind read by all classes in the community—Tories, Whigs, and Radicals. The purport of present letter is the late reform meeting in Glasgow. Of course, 1 don’t expect yon to agree ...

Published: Tuesday 23 October 1866
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 925 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FROM A CORRESPONDENT

... rising men have more promise than the rising Whigs; and this very motion of Lord Grosvenor's I take to be the first step towards a coalition between the best Whigs and the best Conservatives. The old Revolution Whigs are in a very bad way. When Earl Russell ...

Published: Monday 26 March 1866
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 632 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE REFORM BILL

... plan, the Aristocratic and Constitutional Whigs arc to be permitted to take the lead in opposing the revolutionary measure but the votes which this will be effected must bo mainly thovso of Conservatives. The Whig contingent, however, will important from ...

Published: Friday 23 March 1866
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1217 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

TBE NEW REFORM BILL,

... especially direct attention to one of these. The Tories and other opponents of the former bill (among whom were several Old Whigs, such Mr Hallam, Mr Mien, and others) were particularly apprehensive that the change then introduced would destroy the balance ...

Published: Friday 06 April 1866
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 856 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

SCOTTISH EPISCOPAL TIT,^ TO TOE EDITOE I„F. , 01E 4 „ Si*,—l obserre in ril >Sti, under the head of

... secur; by soothing promises. He has very distinct told them that a Whig Ministry belongs to political species as extinct the dodo, and tL great harm would be done to the country the whole Whig party were deposited in W» minster Abbey. He has never coucealed ...

Published: Thursday 12 April 1866
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1282 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE BILL AND ITS AUTHORS

... deserves to be, and the Government with it. For Lord Grosvenor represents a strong body ot moderate men, who, though they be Whigs, are Whigs of the old school, and prefer their country and its great institutions to any party triumph. But granting it to reach ...

Published: Friday 30 March 1866
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 268 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SUPPLEMENT TO T1

... SUPPLEMENT TO T1 this regular enrolment of Mr Gosohen in the Whig ranks fortifies that jarty in exactly their very weakest point. With the single exception of Sir George Cornewall Lewis, the Whigs h«ve not. for many generations, been able to produce a Finance ...

Published: Tuesday 16 January 1866
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 791 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

REFORM BILL

... from making in order to please the Whig Government, who wished to abandon their bill. And no# they : are moving heaven and earth to get the people to agitate in favour of a much inferior measure, simpU' because the Whig Government consider the carrying ...

Published: Tuesday 03 April 1866
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1410 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 18€6

... danger of being set at nought by the Whig aristocracy. The King himself had waged a long fight for his own emancipation. In 1783 the people had come to his assistance, and the result was that victory over the Whigs which seated Mr Pitt in power for the ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1866
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1362 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MINISTRY

... pronounced to 'Je beyond his means, and in some particularly uraorant and underbred quarters, was spoken of as preferring Whigs to his own men, and as soliciting them with some submissiveness to Wve under his flag. The truth, of course, was ,ihat her ...

Published: Friday 13 July 1866
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1032 | Page: 9 | Tags: none