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Literature

... of the citizens with the Whig party had remained unbroken, but there uwere evident symptoms of restiveness on the par. of, the forner. They had no absolute objections to urge against the candidates offered to them by the Whigs, bout they complained that ...

TOWN AND TABLE TALK ON LITERATURE, ART, &c

... rather have seen Mrs. Fletcher in a box at a theatre than have seen Mrs. Siddons on the stage of the same theatre. She was a Whig, and long a widlow. She i married for love of. what marriage is said seldom to give-liberty. Her husband, Archisiald Fletcher ...

POETRY

... And Fraser-mion from Buelhan's Bracs. Let Farquharson-s from Loeh.na-gur, And Forbeses from loal Stratlidon, Join westland whigs from vild Stranraer, And Tories from Loeh.Torridon. tlaedonalds from Glengarry conic, Fiom Kcppoch, loidart, Arruadale, And ...

DINNER TO MR. MONCREIFF, M.P., AT MUSSELBURGH

... great party—the Liberal party, better known in English bis- torv as the great Whig party which bad all along been the against oppression. Mr Bridges then traced the of the Whigs in the cause of liberty, from the acces- sion of the noble family which now ...

Literature

... lowing is a glimpse of the WHIGS AND TORIES. The generic divisions of Whbig and Tory had undergone a great change since the commencement of the century. The distinction betveen Whigs and Patriots-that is W~higs in office and Whigs in Opposition no longer ...

THE LATE EDITOR OF THE EDINBURGH REVIEW

... Rev. Cuthbert Southey, well merited praise to the one, and the gift of a church living to the other, came from a Whig Review, and from a Whig Lord Chancellor, in acknowledgment of high literary genius ; while a bitter and discreditable attack appeared in ...

Literature

... she present war with China in particular, and Ab' rho disastrous campaign in Affghauisean being di- any vec~r attributed to Whig mismanangement. With re-tior ga t o the first, it is truly enough asserted that, just ratl as thec nation Novas congratulating ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... d as Sir Edward' Lyttoi-from on'ewho isa'oonstitutional Whig mixing in the society of leading Whbigs-may reasonably be expected to knoiw something of the real opinions of the constitutional Whig party,'will, we are sure, he read with great satisfac- tin ...

FASHIONS FOR JUNE

... Hons Viscount Lismore took place on the -21st ult., at Shanally Castle, in the 83d year of ,his age.; Vlis Lordship was a Whig in politics 'though from' his age and' increasing infirmities he has for many years 'been unable twaittebd Parliament.' By ...

LITERARY BLUE-BOOK

... Heuse blue-book dispels many popular beliefs current in society. Thus the often-repeated story that Lord Macaulay had sold his Whig history to the Messrs. Longman for an annuity is to be upset by the Custom House fact that the old histolrian is the proprietor ...

LITERATURE

... changes, 'the lot k-fell upon Whig, which was 'very significative, as well as It ready; being vernacular in Scotland, from whence it was - borrowed, for corrupt and sour whey. Defoe accepts this i le derivation of Whig; and says.the use of it began in ...

AL, — bn «gor bas been running its successful course during the week, and we have no reason to alter

... into as- | senting to a!l the propositions laid down by the writer, whoever he may be. I am quite willing to allow that the Whig-Russell Ministry had become effete and and that the sooner they were got rid of, and the longer was their period of hybernation ...