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Letter to the Editor

... Reform Bill of 1866. I really don't think ?? vi l pass. The whole affair seemst'd more pretence &tieforrn on the part of the Whig Gov.Yernment and their partisans. Mr ; Bright and others bhave .rAlled it anu !4'honest Bill:; jW and so it is; nodoubt,. ...

Published: Thursday 26 April 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 651 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... 'ps~the result also of the election petitions, which have gone largely against the Whigs.r..6wprefereiryO day, more and more, to draw the distinction between Liberal and Whig-that a, division decidedly in favour of the Government measure is not to. be expected ...

Published: Wednesday 25 April 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2396 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

LORD MACAULAY

... 'did not sometimes allow his personal and polititial 6ntiptbi'ei to, warp himwfrot the .athtof impmrtial justice. 'Athorogh Whig,'be liw and 'then carried his Wliiggism into literary critidisin, ?? hot to have' found a plae nd eipoea hiinself to' te charge ...

Published: Monday 02 April 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1321 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... courtesy, or in the exercise of special grace or mercy, is it possible to call it a Reform measure. Twelve years ago, when the Whig mountain was in labour, and when no very. great expectations were entertained astoafavour- able issue, a much butter mouse ...

Published: Monday 30 April 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2276 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE REFORM BILL DEBATE

... officeless and the. hopeless; and though Mr Horeman had lost his tail, his other friends who have not irrevocably broken with the Whigs might demur to sa8rific.- ing their own tails for the sake of keeping hbn in countenance. Herbert Poole, who was convicted ...

Published: Monday 16 April 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1566 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... it was glorious. !But, now he is in Parliament, what will he do? asked'more than one sneery Conservative and half.hearted Whig. True, he is a great philoso. pher, but what do 'we want with yhilosophy it the House of Commons, sir. What; w want there, ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3008 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... Earl 1lissell from oalise. It could not be that a Bill of this character coald have been brought in without consulting the Whig party, and there could not be much danger in a Bill brought in by a member of the House of Bedford, and supported by the C ...

Published: Tuesday 24 April 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6027 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... to be more independent than they used' .to be, and' so can 'farmers too. In Norfolk the'farmera ran counter to: their great Whig. landlords and returned a man of their own class. Family influence often means nothing more than an attachment, the growth ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2369 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Letters to the Editor

... chief diffculty is, Ireland,' is, the unguar~de If: eenon~dinsiieof the British' Minister. 'War ico thdkifM tys'th'eiidvann Whig;' Lord Stanley, e. umuqubill Secretary at War wil h Ireland. Let a6 tlie Irish bs h muzzled,~ prtclaimns the. T~ory Lord ...

Published: Monday 30 April 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3754 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... s are not new to the country, and with! t the country 'they do not outweigh a 'rushlight. | f Mr Bouverie, true to his old Whig love, is to vote for the second reading; and, as a whole, f the Government majority is estimated, as | I we said yesterday ...

Published: Thursday 12 April 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4161 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... and ultimately'year by year it talked its Bill.outb of.: the House. .This, was the sole and only object contemplated. ' The Whigs had got,! L9rld -Deby, out,.on the ground that the noble Lord* had' no,; businessi to, be, a Reformer, and on the groun-d ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4036 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MR MILL'S GREAT SPEECH

... ,`1and that the tesant farmers in Hertforelshire can carry an election. They may be able -to, deeide whether t a Tory or a Whig'shali be elected-they may be p I masters of so small a situation as that-(laughter). fn But what you are afraid of is their ...

Published: Monday 16 April 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5183 | Page: 3 | Tags: News