... been unduly doubted, aud he never tires of abusing a mere. He is a plucky fellow, but rather sensitive. It is said that the Whigs of Edinburgh have overtured their Radical, townsmen to unite offering one of the city seats to Mr Gladstone -Mr Miller, the ...

... Advanced Liberals come first, the Whigs second, and the Tories, as become their character and reputation—a slow-paced, “peculiar” people—come last. Prior to 1868, the Council was practically divided into two parties only. The Whigs and the Radicals w ere embraced ...

... EDINBURGH, The Edinburgh correspondent of the Dumfries Standard, after referring to the report, which noticed last week, that the Whigs of the city had overtured the Radicals to supplant Mr Miller with the Premier as one of their Parliamentary representatives ...

... advanced Liberals, or supporters of Mr Noel, are at present the strongest party in the Council, aud, by coalescing with the Whigs on the one hand or the Tories on the other, have virtually command over every office of dignity. I further stated that Sir ...

... have accepted the candidates of the Liberal Republicans on grounds of its own, or it might have presented them, as the first Whig Convention did Harrison and Tyler, without adopting any platform whatever. That it choose to plant itself deliberately, by ...

... on occurred on the death of that gentleman in 1845, Air Alaxwell was brought forward to succeed him, by the leaders of the Whig party; but many of the electors disapproved of the choice on religious grounds, Air Alaxwell wisely retired in favour of Mr ...