... Is the man of “independent principles” forced after all to take shelter in the ranks of pa and to raise the old war-cry of Whig and Tory ? Be it so. But what is the value of these cries, and what meaning is attachable to them? I, for m rt, would really ...

... beneficial. Perhape, however, a still worse case is that Mr Samuel Laing, who came the Northern Burghs more Radical than the old Whig member, and gives his first vote to the Tories. We always suspected that Mr Laing might prove slippery but not that would run ...

... conspicuous of late by his exertions to strengthen the League or Radical party. But that section, while almost unpopular as the Whigs with the masses, is even more disunited—so much so, that the only measure the venerable father the House of Commons can suggest ...

... formally proposed as a candidate for the representation of Edinburgh, at a meeting of the Original Liberal Aggregate, old Whig committee, numbering about 200 of the metropolitan electors—ex-Provost Black in the chair. It seems likely that Mr Cowan and ...

... might eithar be admitted in new character, or to Constantinople Am bassador. These are only conjectures. 1 combination of Whigs, Radicals, and Peelite! might produce a Government worthy of th times, and names are freely mentioned, bu need not be yet repeated ...

... not many of our readers will peruse with interest the following account of its rise and progress, as detailed in the Northern Whig of the Ist inst. :— “There has been a great deal of great deal of improvement, abunda nee ment to a lar, and increasing population ...

... the franchise carefully weighing the bable effeets of the exercise of the dut they will speedily be- e old nomenclature of « Whig” having become and all but obsolete, electors, to do their duty faithfully to their country, will require to lay aside every ...

... them, and embalmed their memo in matchless melod verse. At the starting point of his career, he kad os little affection for Whigs as for ‘ories. The ap- renticeship of Moore was served when he commenced the “ Irish Melodies,” which have rendered his name ...

... circumstance need not, there- fore, be taken by those at a distance at more than its value. The existing Government, whether Whig or Tory, can always command the return of a Ministerialist for Greenwich, Accounts have reached town of some flagrant cages ...

... improving his position. English Radicals, says the News, and Irish Catholics prove alike impracticable; and for disappointed Whigs, there are not half dozen the three kingdoms who are subject to even the suspicion of meditating apostacy. Who these are we ...

... (From the Inverness Courier. In the Wick or Northern Burghs the contest is . more severe and personal, Mr La appears to be a Whig and something more—a an of a good Orkney family, and connected with railrosd and other business in England. In some of the ...

... though really without any foundation. A meeting of a portion of the electors of Lisburn was held on Monday, says the Northern Whig, the advocate of the Smyth party, at which sixty-five out of the two hundred electors of which the constituency is composed ...