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... circles in which I move, and which he then moved in. It is strange, though, that I, who never had half his recommendations to the Whig aristocracy, and not a tithe of his talent, nor a hundredth part of his information, should have been in office with him as ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1844
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 485 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE LATE LORD LYNEDOCH

... Commons his place as a member. In 1821 he received the rank of General, and the Governor of Dumbarton Castle. In politics he was Whig. a recent occasion, so anxious was he to manifest his sense of loyalty arid his personal attachment to the Queen, that when ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1844
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1210 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Cotemporary Opinions

... anticipated with any eager expectation on the part of the people ; because' Sir Robert Peel fights the Tories better than the Whigs could do, and the accession of the latter to place would not give us, what is more important to the people than a Liberal ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1844
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3586 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Ireland

... but, it is said, still preserved something like style at his table. The end of his story has been toid The Beltast Northern Whig.] Crawford as a Landlord.—A tenant upon one of Mr Sharman Crawford's estates in the county of Down, had expended a considerable ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1844
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2631 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CHANGE-PRESENT ASPECT OF THINGS

... reform, the Whigs held the Government of the country for a number of years. Earl Grey had done his woik, and retired from the field; and the reins of Government fell into less skilful and less energetic hands. His successors in the Whig administration ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1844
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2014 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... legislators, and will lead to more thorough separation of the wheat and the chaff than has yet taken place. It will confound Whig and Tory, but sweep to the right and the left the Evangelical and ar.ti- Eyangeheal. It will mix Churchmen and Dissenters ; ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1844
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1288 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Foreign Intelligence

... Charles's design, and ho hopes that his confidant, Mr Daly, may serve Messrs Baldwin and Lai'ontaine as Sir Robert Peel served the Whigs—take all their measures save one or two, their diplomatists, their expressions, and hatch Liberal eggs, by making the old ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1844
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1657 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

England

... instead of the no-meaning terms, Whig and Tory. There are Conservatives who are free-traders; there are Whigs who are not so. Why should this question supplying a country with food be any more a pai ty question of Whig and Tory, than the supply a tow n ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1844
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1607 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Ireland

... that he hay seen Mr Ray and others of the traversers Holbrooke's office, suggesting alterations in the designs of the cards whig the work was in progress. An apprentice of Mr Holbrooke proved the delivery of the cards at the Corn Exchange. cards were read ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1844
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3095 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Cotemporary Opinions

... retnoving, as they rise, every just cause of disobedience If a verdict sought from jury of the people in the great cause of Whigs against Conservatives, let us only, to obtain it, appeal to the recollection of those who have watched public affairs for the ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1844
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1270 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Infirmary.—We arc happy to learn, that the following addition has been made to the list of annual subscribers ..

... Clark, Commercial Inn, do.; Mr R. Weems, Parliamentary Solicitor, London; Mr Andrew Anderson, cloth-merchant, Dumfries •Mr Whig ham, Collector of Cess, ditto ; T. F. Smith, writer, ditto; James M'Kie, writer, ditto. Token of R E ;r.-Mr Martin, of the ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1844
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1836 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Imperial Parliament

... Grey could hardly suppose the state of that king' dom to be worse now than it was when supported the Coef k cion Bill of the Whig party. Lord Ehot vindicated strike of the jury, and denied that an objection to an mdl (J, vidual on the score of his political ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1844
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 12669 | Page: 3 | Tags: none