... INDEPENDENT PARTY, V. THE WHIG CLIQUE. THE political history of the middle of the nineteenth century, will exhibit a remarkable change in the current of popular sympathy in the Scottish metropolis. Thirty years ago, the Whigs, after a period of great trial ...

... seeing that the Whigs baffled the honest attempts of Lord Derby's Government to give the country a measure of Parliamentary Reform, because they were not themselves the originators of it. Let the battle, then, be fought between Whig and Tory. Of all ...

... on the 18th inst. Large mass conventions had been in the West in favour of Mr Fremont for President. There had also been a Whig meeting in Boston in his favour. There was an attempt made at a coalition in Pennsylvania between the friends of Filmore and ...

... seems to be so slow at observing the change in the temper of the country as Whig leaders and the Whig press. They continue pertinaciously to divide the House into Conservatives, Whigs, and Radicals; and knowing that the last election returned a majority pledged ...

... about 9-40; at Corsehill about 10-10 ; at the Post-Office, Fair;ie, about 10-40 ; and arrive at Largs about 11-10. Leaving the Whig! Hart inn, Lams, at 4 p.m.; Fairlie, about 4-30 ; Corsehill, about 5; Ardrossan, about 5-30; Salicoats, about 5-45; Stevenston ...

... Mackay, Factor to the Marquis of Hastings, was in the chair. The hon. Bart., stated that he was prepared to support either Whig or conservative government with an extension )f the franchise, he was ready to place it in the sands of the educated and i ...

... not have the shadow of a chance. Notwithstanding the efforts of Ministers, and that portion of the press of an unmistakeable Whig type, the test applied to Candidates soliciting seats in the new Parliament, is neither the Chinese question, nor Lord Palmerston ...

... Crimean commissioner, Sir John M'Neill. The Whig party nominated Lord John Russell, and prosecuted their resurrectionary work with wonderful vigour. But their attempt to infuse galvanic life into the leader of the Whigs proved a signal failure ; and Sir John ...

... been used to govern them with undisputed sway—is a circumstance the significance of which will be thoroughly understood in Whig circles. The doings of these Barons in their Runnymede of committee-room No. 11, no doubt occupy the most anxious attention ...

... condemnation of the Oude Proclamation by Sir James Outran], the disengenious character of the resolutions, the apprehension of a Whig restoration, but, above all, the immediate prospect, in case Ministers were defeated, of a dissolution of Parliament, proved ...

... eligible candidates. This contemptible practice is not confined to any particular section of politicians, but is employed by Whig and Tory, alike to the discredit of both. Reform, then, is the real question at issue, not as Mr Disraeli states, in his address ...

... and sincere; possessing an immense flow of spirits, a tenacious memory, and an inexhaustible fund of anecdote. In polities a Whig of the old school —a gallant officer, a!:d an ardent followei of field sports. The poor have lost in him M benefac , or —he ...