... in those counties, when the property was leased, they would prevent the Tories, if the leases were in their hands, or the Whigs if in theirs, from carrying the election. He, however, quite concurred with the Lord Provost in thinking, that if they were ...

... Dimmocratic ticket; this ’are is the Whig.” But if you strive to vote twice I shall have you arrested.” “ You will, will you ?” shouted the son of the sovereign people; then I says if I’m denied the right of woting for the Whigs, after goin’ the whole ticket ...

... and the most persuasive in the Senate, the most ambitious, and in all respects the most formidable man in the whole circle of Whig statesmen. The Cabinet of last session, which hardly survived it, is now minus Lord Palmerston. It may not lie matter of much ...

... small or dear loaf of 1815, this must as unuhilosopbical and unfair as to compare the Liberal and Conservative of with the Whig and Tory of 1088—what the Protectionists of the present day aim at being, as I understand protection, to provide a moderate-priced ...

... deceased Sir David Baird, the second baronet of the line, was bom in 1795, and, we have said, succeeded his uncle in 1829. He was Whig in politics, and as such, at the general election in 1847, he disputed the representation of East Lothian with the present ...

... is very generally .*■>- . understood that the negotiations progress -'y for their object the formation of a Conservative- / Whig Cabinet—a negotiation which, if successful, / would all probability involve early dissolution / of Parliament. It is* proposed ...

... attract but little external sympathy, still less of internal strength, from an unnatural appeal ultra-Democratic appetites. Whig not the staple from which a successful demagogue is made. It is injustice, however, believe, to I ...

... suppose that measures can impart strength to a Government which has lost the power to wield its weapons with efficiency. The Whig Budget of 1811 was memorable* example of that delusion, winch recoiled upon its authors. The doctrines of free tmde, afterwards ...

... parties in this country. The Whig party had always confined its view and its choice of persons for the Government to their own peculiar families. Now, the Tories, from whom be differed a great deal more than he did from the Whigs, had not been guilty of that ...

... there must be a considerable numerical minority of Um constituency may safely conjectured. fn>m tk«* circumstance that the Whig party are committed the lion. Arthur Kinnaml f»r the first vacancy,aad that the Conservatives stand aloof from Mr Kinnaird ...

... the Whig Government, having the game in their hands, were considerably maligned if they did not manage the turn in their favour in some dozen instances. little nice manipulation the magic 2000 was easily stretched or contracted, according as a Whig or ...

... latter gentleman shall second the motion for its introduction.” The Irish Bar. —lt is, we find, in the contemplation of the Whigs to strike a deadly blow at the Irish Bar. It proposed to transfer to the county courts a portion of the equity jurisdiction ...