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| THE COUNTY 1 TO THE EDITOR OF THE JOHN O'GROAT JOURNAL. Sir,--I wish it to be distinctly understood that

... feel the indignity cast upon them. With these sentiments I give you the lines in charge. Devicareo To THE LineraL Awa’, ye Whigs, awa’, Ye're po’ the men for me ; I see your dirty, cloven paw, Ye Liberal Committee. Ye've the devil's cloven hoof nst Government ...

Published: Thursday 19 August 1869
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 341 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

) wee t Hournal. Cer WICK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1802. THE DEATH OF LORD DERBY. \ Tue death of Lord

... Parliament was as the member for Stockbridge, a close borough in Hampshire, | which he represented in the Whig interest. The Derby family was then Whig, and, in his earlier Parliamentary career, the young Mr Stanley was a consistent supporter of the family ...

Published: Thursday 28 October 1869
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1351 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE PRESS AND ELECTION PETITIONS

... agents for the Belfast petition against the return of Mr Thomas M’Clure, the Liberal member, served notice upon the Northern Whig and other Belfast Liberal journals that an application will be made to the Court of Common Pleas for an attachment inst them ...

Published: Thursday 07 January 1869
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1038 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MARRIED BY MISTAKE

... MARRIED BY ISTAK A CORRESPONDENT of the ‘ Belfast Whig’ tells the fol- lowing extraordinary story of a wedding :—‘ On Satgr- day last a marriage ceremony, attend: with very an- usual circamstances, took place in a little town not 20 miles from Belfast ...

Published: Thursday 27 May 1869
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 444 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AN ILL-ASSORTED COUPLE

... Groomsport. (Laughter.) Mr Orme-— I'm afrai they will have to go somewhere. The case was postponed for a month.—‘ Northern Whig.’ ...

Published: Thursday 08 July 1869
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 445 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE IRISH CHURCH DIVISION—SCENE IN THE HOUSE

... that it seemed to be the shout of deliverance of the whole Trish people. The majority had been not unexpected, but the Tory Whigs declared it would be under a hun- dred, and the reality surpassed the expectations of most of the Liberals, The Premier's face ...

Published: Thursday 01 April 1869
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 818 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FORTY YEARS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS

... iation Clause ; and al- though the battle fiercely until 1838, the bill time after time was rejected by the Lords, and the Whigs were finally to their measure minus the principle w hich io | ich in Ireland was regarded as the pl of justice . Tue JORPORATION ...

Published: Thursday 22 July 1869
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 848 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ORKNEY AND SHETLAND ELECTION

... their contesting the seat. Some of them expressed their readiness to come forward, and would have done so at once, had not the Whigs interfered to prevent the interests of the Earl being opposed. Thwarted thus in its attempt to bring forward a Liberal Candidate ...

Published: Thursday 07 January 1869
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 992 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

General News

... the party of action. Asorner Wuic Jon.— The Edinburgh correspondent of the ‘ Ayr Observer,’ writes :—The last ‘rumour’ of a Whig job which I have heard is that a gentleman who is about to become the son-in-law of the Lord Advocate is also to obtain the ...

Published: Thursday 29 April 1869
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1298 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE IRISH-CHURCH BILL-ANOTHER SCENE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS

... Lrish clergy the glebe-houses without payment of the building charges upon them. ‘The amendment had two objects—to enable the Whig independent Peers who had voted for Lord Salisbury’s amendment to go into the opposite lobby, since the Duke of motion for ...

Published: Thursday 15 July 1869
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1298 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE SCENE ON THE DIVISION ON CONCURRENT ENDOWMENT

... between the dent Conservatives below it. ex-Ministerial Peers above the and the inde pen- On the Liberal side there | dependent Whig Peers, who were faith Was 4 similar antagonism going on between the old in- | traditions, and the members of the ( ful to their ...

Published: Thursday 08 July 1869
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1171 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Literature

... never yet found befitti utterance in words. The revealer of heart is still to come. Thomas Moore was but the caged canary,of a Whig drawing-room. There is more of the true soul of Erin in one air of Carolan, than in all the pretty melodies he ever penned ...

Published: Thursday 21 January 1869
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1548 | Page: 4 | Tags: none