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WHAT HAVE THE WHIGS DONE?

... WHAT HAVE THE WHIGS DONE? In answer to a correspondent, we give the following brief list of their deeds during the last ten years. We wish they had done more, but we must be thankful for what we receivc. Taken off taxes to the annual amount of £8,235 ...

Published: Thursday 29 April 1841
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1195 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SYMPTOMS OF WHIG-RADICAL DISUNION

... for an opportunity to gratify bis spite towards the Whigs; still has waited long enough. He now abuses the Whigs, and keeps his seat. Not a mouth ago he risked the loss of his seat abusing the Whigs; may now *ay what pleases of them, and thwart them as ...

Published: Thursday 28 July 1836
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3015 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ELEVEN YEARS OF WHIG MISRULE

... years of Whig misrule. The reign the Whigs began before the reform bill, and ended with Sir Robert Peel's tariff. And if Sir Robert Peel but follow out what seems to be the strong impulses his own mind, and comple'e the designs of the Whig*, the period ...

Published: Thursday 17 November 1842
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 803 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WHIG AND TORY AGREEING

... WHIG AND TORY AGREEING. Lord George Manners and the Hon. Henry Brand, the Speaker, attended the annual dinner of the' Cambridgeshire and Ely Chamber of Agriculture Cambridge. Lord George Manners said he hoped that his respected colleague (Mr Brand) would ...

Published: Thursday 19 February 1874
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 244 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

STATE OF THE WHIG-RADICAL UNION

... together. The Whigs alone, not being a party, being a mere clique or coterie of aristocratic families, may be influenced. We have therefore endeavoured to excite the Whigs agree with the Radicals. And how ?—by pointing out to the Whigs that their existence ...

Published: Thursday 28 July 1836
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 742 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WHIG INFLUENCE IN TIIE HOUSE OF

... WHIG INFLUENCE IN TIIE HOUSE OF LORDS. You cannot bribe in the House of Lords by £2, 10s., or • place iu the Pest Office: but is there no bribery in making barons viscounts, viscounts *Nis, and earls marquises 1 There was a bill introduced by the noble ...

Published: Thursday 24 May 1855
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 172 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE ORIG/N OF THE WORD WHIG

... THE ORIG/N OF WORD WHIG. The following has been received in regard to the origin of the word Whig. Scottish tradition runs as follows :—ln the struggle for religious liberty in Scotland, one of the parties placed on their banner the motto We hope in ...

Published: Wednesday 02 December 1885
Newspaper: Kirkcaldy Times
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A NEW WHIG PEERAGE

... A NEW WHIG PEERAGE. A rumour was prevalent in town on Mondays the Right Ron. Sir James Moncrei ff , Bart , Justice-Clerk, is to receive a peerage, with the title of Baron Kilduff of Kilduff. It is further stated that the new Peer will for same time—at ...

A WHIG VIEW OF THE BALLOT

... A WHIG VIEW OF THE BALLOT. We all know what Lord Palmerston thouzlit of the ballot, and how Mr Gladstone agreed with him —till he changed his mind. Lord Palmerston, if not positively the last of the Whigs, was the last who exercised any influence over ...

Published: Thursday 25 April 1872
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 271 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE WHIG MINISTRY AND FINANCIAL REFORM

... THE WHIG MINISTRY AND FINANCIAL REFORM. The Army ami Navy Estimates lor the financial have been issued, and they are such convince the advocates of retrenchment r!i.it the Whig Ministers will not albes until the battle against profligate ami reckless ...

Published: Thursday 01 March 1849
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1162 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

“ The Duke of Hamilton, and the Whigs of Scotland.”

... The Duke of Hamilton, and the Whigs of Scotland.” The Duke of Hamilton expressed his obligations to his noble frjgpd Lord Rosslyn. After descanting at considerable length on his Lordship’s virtues, and the manner in which the Government of Irelawd was ...

Published: Thursday 27 January 1825
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1358 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TITS WHIGS AND THEM 1111.11

... TITS WHIGS AND THEM (Frost the Speetater.) There Mr O'Coneell's authority for fact. that Irish menthes, who had travailed to support Sir Grow Strickland's motion for the abolition of negro apprenticeship, went over to the other side, and voted for the ...

Published: Thursday 12 April 1838
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 641 | Page: 2 | Tags: none