... they can then be easily shot. At a meeting of the Fife justices of the peace at Colingsburgh, soon after the Forty-five, a Whig gentleman gave the Duke of Cumberland as a toast. A Jacobite gentleman present, David Beatoun, of Kilconquhar, being next asked ...

... Dissentient °U j would, however, have great effect ^ure events. He regarded it as a fan departure of Whigs from the Liberal %i^' aD(* iaasmuc^ 88 'he Whig connection had 0* its force from popular spirit it was vltabie that the consequence of the severance ...

... carried, an appeal will be made to the constituen- cies is on the cards. It would be the necessary consequence of an extensive Whig revolt, but we see no cause for grave uneasiness as to the result of a dissolution on the question. The English people are ...

... in the Liberal party, it shall be a division of Radical against Whig, with the Whig driven over to those Tory benches where his natural and appropriate place would be. Meanwhile the Whigs are in a panio at the rumour of the rapprocftemcnt between Mr Gladstone ...

... THE SUNDAY-CLOSING ACT. The 2Vorihern Whig says it can be stated on the best possible authority that there is no foundation for the report that Lord Aberdaro has been appointed chairman ot the Commission on the working of the Welsh Sunday Closing Act ...

... kept at white heat by the conflicting passions aroused by a parliamentary election. This contest was no ordinary struggle of Whig against Prig, the sy- nonyms by which this blunt people distinguished the Liberal and Conservative parties. It may here be ...

... finer grained, and very tender. At a meeting of the Fife Justices of the Peace at Coliosburg-h, soon after the Forty-five, a Whig gentleman gave the Duke of Cumberland as a toast. A Jacobite gentleman present, Beaton of Kilconquhar, being next asked to ...

... was once more de- serted by the Whigs on the Bradlaugh question, and one has only to look back to at week to see how ignominiously the movement has collapsed. In fact, recent history shows that a defection of the Whigs always precedes Mr Gladstone's greatest ...

... PREPARING FOR THE FRAY IN LANCASHIRE. The Pre? A?oci?tton'- Manchester correspoB- dont staces .hat f?whig upon the determina- tion of the Lanca-iiire and Yorkshire miners to resist any reduction of wages or any reference to arbitration, tnere has been ...

... Murpby 2 J. MUSTO 21 R. Sitlh 21 r: 14 TALYWADf. T. HOOPER 15 IT. BRIGHT. 15 ■JI BRIGHT 9 T. CROWLEY — 21 J. CHAPMAN 5 E. TO WHIG 9 J. CHAPMAN 5 E. Towhig 9 J. Wties 21 G. Corder 21 ) TOTAL 115 ...

... ly correct. It Proves Fiction. I Mr Gladstone telegraphs to the Central News totally denying the statement in the Northern Whig that he discussed the draft of the Irish local government scheme with certain ^arnellite members. ...

... admitted that they had con- founded the unity with the disruption of the Empire. So long as this temporary estrangement of many Whigs and a few Radicals from the rest of their party remains, the Govern- ment of Lord Salisbury cannot be expelled from office ...