... array of youthful aspirants cast their fortunes, or as was then thought thle sacritice of their professional hopes, with the Whig party-when h1arry Erskine, Clerk, Giilies, Cath cart and othiers, were joined by Cranstoun, Jeffrey, 'Mon- creif', Cockburn ...

... attentively the interests of his constituents. In his public capacity lie knew no party, e and made no distinction between Whig and Tory; and to this t cause, as well as to the high sense of honour which regtlated n | all the actions of his life, he owed ...

... .IEATH OF F. D. FINLAY, ESQ., OF THE NORTHERN WHIG. It is with feelings of the sincerest regret that we announce to-day the death of F. D. Finlay, Esq., the proprietor of the Nort/crnz Whig, the leading Liberal paper of the north of Ireland. Mr Finlay ...

... notwith- ,a standing that politics and partyfeeling ran high at that particular a etra.- Mr. Mills was always a consistent Whig, and attached to h the party that maintained the principles of that s chool, which ha Charles James Fox, 'Earl Grey, and other ...

... humiliating coaxing, doled out to us from the procecds | of our own taxation. In pursuance of a settled line of policy, on | which Whig aad Tory are alike agreed, to strip Scotland of every vestige of her separate nationalily, aad merge it in that of England ...

... the origin of thing that they might know how they stood. Tere had been a good deal of idle and foolish talk about “the “the Whig Clique,” the « Parliament-house Clique,” but it all meant hear). They all knew that when a bad charge could not be brought ...

... Scottish bar in 1799, and through life was a consistent supporter of the principles of Fox-in short, a zealous constitutioloasal Whig. When the project w.a mooted, about the year 1825, of effecting two leading public improvernents in Edinbturgl, viz. thle approach ...

... fruits of that great day's renown, was either destroyed or captured. The late peer chose his place from the first with. the Whig opposition, but seldom spoke in Parliament till 1820, when lie took some active part in the tilal of Qaeen Caroline. In 1827 ...

... called the Prince Regent an Adonis, Leigh Hunt, in a fit e of indignation at the Regent's having broken his promise to the Whigs,0added-' of fifty.' The Prince's vanity triumphed over his discretion, and on the pretended ground of some words of more serious ...

... John Dalrymple-to call him by the title by which lie Di , was longest known in the political world-early embraced the M tr Whig cause, and more than once contested the roprecsentation so r- of Alid-Lothian without success before the Reform Bill. The Jr ...

... continued s to push its barriers into every social circle, till there re- mained scarcely a spot of neutral ground on which whig and tory, liberal and conservative, corporator and anti-corpora- tor, churchman and dissenter, could meet in amity, and- without ...

... attempt to ponrtray the character and genius of Lord Cockburn. ,The last, or nearly the last, survivor of that brilliant group of Whig barristers, who so signally adorned the legal profession, and tice political history of Scotland,- tile shalrer of the fiarendship ...