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UNPUBLISHED POEM BY BURNS

... cativgt mong his native rok3, And to a dirty hennntcl oained, IHow he his liberty regained. -- Gles6lrddel, a Whig withoult a stain, A W~hig in prlacolpie said graia, Ijonidat theu ernslave a freeborn c reature- A native denizen of nature ? How couldet ...

Published: Monday 27 April 1874
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 610 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE DISAFFECTED

... 'much the same manner as the Whig, in .the sacred cause 'of good taste. The resultis: a dead-lock of principles and of personal antipathies, to which, if they have any meaning at' al, the'querulous com- plaints of the 'Whig Land his friends wouldrsuely ...

Published: Saturday 02 December 1871
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1432 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE EAST SURREY ELECTION

... ment, and Ur, (xladtstone personally, s have recently had but little reason to be grateful to the old Whigs. Lord t r rougham once said the Whigs are all 1t cyphers, but this is not their own estimate a of themselves. Their sense of importance d is ...

Published: Friday 25 August 1871
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 699 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

RENEREWSHIRE ELECTION

... these unfortunate differences. The cause which led to defeat in Elngland has had the same effect in Scotland. The 0'.l high Whig section of the Ministry have evidently hampered Mr. Gladstone in hiG adoption of a thorough Liberal programme. They have tried ...

Published: Friday 12 September 1873
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 817 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE ARGYLESHIRE ELECTION

... ex- pression, than that of the Argylls. In the old dark days of Tory intolerance and per- secution, the members of this great Whig family were invariably on the side of the down-trodden. When others faltered or became servile to the Court or to unscrupulous ...

Published: Tuesday 13 August 1878
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 610 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE LIBERAL REACTION IN SCOTLAND

... harmless sphere of privare life. In South Ayrshire this will be difficult. Lord l-glintoni, the reore- sentative of the great Whig or Liberal ;house in the county, is a political nonentity, but his agents are Tories. All the small lairds are Tories of the ...

Published: Thursday 25 September 1879
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 411 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... cipate the time wben the Whigs will come over to them en masse. That is an event which is not at all likely to happen so long as the Marquis of Hartington and Lord Granville lead the Liberal party. Undoubtedly a few of the Whig Peers like the Duke of ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1877
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1387 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

MUNICIPAL HONOURS IN LIVERPOOL

... served the ratepayers, and occupied most prominent and important positions in the Council, having the respect and confidence of Whig, Tory, and Radical members. Why is it that the services of these two gentlemen are ignored, and a municipal STripling promoted ...

Published: Saturday 28 October 1871
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 310 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

POLICAL INFLUENCE

... convictioll of th0ose -whom she has moat honoured and mevered, I comes to the conclusion that what werefortnorlM y termcd Whigs WnI Liberals have now degenerated into Radicals and 3 .!.oltio.it Thein thore comes a little sit bit of truly feminine spite ...

Published: Friday 12 September 1873
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 903 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE EARL OF DERBY AND THE FARMERS

... tenantry; and I I am greatly strusk with the Whig vein Of Jo resemblance which can be detected in the language of Lord Derby and the actions of Lord Tolle- .To mache-bosth of them descendants of the old Whig Fr aristocracy, who, with all their shortcomings ...

Published: Monday 23 June 1879
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 928 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

LOCAL TAXATION

... them. The oil te Ovil seems to be in the Whig and Tory rets in the colncil. A political party has firet lervtd, and not the public good eousiderad. toe and then seea enough to know we are !orrect when we inter a Whig or Tory tool ten rewarded for his political ...

Published: Thursday 02 January 1873
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1053 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

ELECTION NEWS

... sympathy of the entire body of nonconformists in the Anglesey boroughs, but the section of his perty who adhere to the old WhIg principles would preoer, It is sid, to see the Hon. W O. 8tanley suceeded by Lord Clarence Paget or Lord George Paget. Neither ...

Published: Monday 24 March 1873
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 465 | Page: 6 | Tags: News