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fcical effect, the new liberal policy. The veteran Whig Poor showed by his speech on the motion for the second

... fcical effect, the new liberal policy. The veteran Whig Poor showed by his speech on the motion for the second reading of the Bill, that he was not by any means an enthusiastic admirer of Mr Gladstone's objects any more than he was of all the means by ...

Published: Friday 25 June 1869
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1412 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

dean may well hide his diminished head, for, as a partisan, he is worthy of neither Whig nor Tory, nor

... dean may well hide his diminished head, for, as a partisan, he is worthy of neither Whig nor Tory, nor of any side in which courage and honesty and “ pluck are valued. As for his {»atron and father-confessok, the editor of the Scotsman, his light also ...

Published: Friday 11 June 1869
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 220 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

PEKHATS it is necessary to a full understanding of the _present composition of tlie House of Lords _, to add

... proportionate _amount of _peer-making , irrespective' _-of the claims _of party .. Thus _, _of tlie seventy creations by the Whigs , at least a dozen ' were merely official or-non-political _, _such as the elevation of retired _Speakers of the other _House ...

Published: Wednesday 23 June 1869
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 643 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

have only exposed their own jinecrupulou* characters. We cun quite understand why the Duke of Argyll was very ..

... the younger Liberals in the House of Peers, but his first appearances damaged his reputation, and he has now subsided into a Whig hack perhaps more than average calibre. That this was not the position he aimed at must patent to all who know the positively ...

Published: Thursday 10 June 1869
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 171 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE PREMIER AND PATRONAGE

... wince.” In the Whig Reform Bill of 1832, although mighty improvement upon the close borough system, there was less of simplicity, of justice, of directness, and of consistency than in the Conservative measure of 1867-68. The “pickings” for Whig purposes were ...

Published: Wednesday 30 June 1869
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2213 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Ifiilf ; _. _!; OF _{ _- _'O . _MMOyS-MoND . lY , _SLiy 31 . 't' ! ri •

... I look upon the policy of the Whig party to be entirely critical , as _' a _distinct and separate policy , _and to be merged in what _is called the general _Liberal policy . It is _true tliat you have _distinguished Whigs _figuring in _the _Government ...

Published: Tuesday 01 June 1869
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 9775 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

V. S. LW Besis. flat INC

... of Do., Do.. 44 Pod 4.! u u County I lb 4 14 10 0 5e.4 Provincial • 8 Aberdare Or • • 6 la • MY I I • IMAM • • • Whig .5 IS 4 • II • 11111 M. .. . .. .. - 12: . ..2 ii. 414 • • • • . . .nt - Is' ...

Published: Wednesday 16 June 1869
Newspaper: Daily Review (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 271 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

INCIDENTS OP THE LATE DEBATE

... latter gave way to Earl Bussell, reserving his claim to a hearing after* wards, the Duke of Abercorn was put up to answer the Whig ex-Premier, and the Duke of Argyll to reply to the ex-Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. The list then stood as follows Russell, Abercorn ...

Published: Tuesday 22 June 1869
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 403 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

_FRENCH PORTRAITS OF _ENGLISH STATESMEN

... him for _all in all , equal to _honest Lord John ; and he would have been ableas well _an the latter , to direct _one or two Whig Cabinets . He only wants a _slight touch _of ill-temper to have the requisite _qualities of a party leader . If ever his biography ...

Published: Thursday 24 June 1869
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1138 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LORI) El/'HO ON I URL A ND

... two distinct lairties —the one above, the other below, the gang- way. The Whigs above the gangway formed one 1 parly, aud those below funned another. Both had a policy, but the Whigs l»elow the gangway hail one especially with regard the land ami the Ckuicb ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1869
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5249 | Page: 8 | Tags: none