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Summarn

... party at Perth. His lordship, as usual, put forth old Whig principles with ease and power, but, like the fly in the ointment, he himself has, by his twenty years' acticn, made the very name of Whig offensive to the political sensibilities of the whole ...

SECoNI) ARRIVAL

... Douse of Representatives. There ant now the six following iii all : -- General Pierre. Demin.rat; General Scott, Whig; Daniel Webster, Union Whig; J. I'. lisle, Freesoiler; Willuani Liberty man; Governor 'froupe, Secessionist. If the secession Fitly make ...

TAXES OK KNOWLEDGE

... course yen rupee°. Mie shall certainly succeed- -but it will be against both the Whigs and Tories; and I would hold both parties cheap in regard to their assistance. All the Whigs deprecate in words the fettering of the press; and yet, with power in their ...

Sunman

... itself to be handed over as a mere fief of family Whiggery. Hundreds were zealous for the Whig Maori/an and the brilliant essayist who would be equally against a mare Whig aristocrat of whom they have heard little, except that he is Lord John Russell's bro ...

•NIZICA

... advantage, for the United States fishermen, is about to propose to Great Britain a new comnien ial eonvention. General Scott, the Whig candidate for the Presidency ' hail been warmly received in the west. The Calia dian igislature hail agreed to guarantee a ...

UNIVERSITY TESTS

... was the next speaker, and he commenced by attempting a defence of the Whig Government and its contemptible policy on this question. The Lord Provost justly said that when the Whigs were in the height of their power and backed with majorities that could ...

A POINT GAINED

... fawned on, scolded, defied, and misrepresented by turns. With the exception of the .V.ws, the entire public press of Edinburgh— Whig and Tory, High Church, Free Church, and Dissenting—Lave been up to this moment meek as sucking doves and silent as the grave ...

Summary

... deception. Lord Palmeraton was the most popular, siinply becaiee he was believed to be the ablest and most liberal r, of the Whig Cabinet. About his ability there be a doubt, but if by going with him whose declared mission is putting down of a wild democracy ...

THE WARDS

... forcible possession. Mr M•Kinlay stood upon the Church interest at last election, and Mr Mossman is also a Churchman of the Whig school, but it is very improbable that these gentlenen will be allowed to walk the course. Mr George Knight, Register Street ...

TNE 11111LONY CONTEST

... demonstration. Those absent spoke as loudly of strong antipathies as those present. What became of the Adam Blacks and the Whigs? and where were the Mr William Cowan. and the Free Church bigots, that they could not appear to oppose the Tory and High Church ...

Summary

... community. The journals representing the various shades of opposition are unanimous in their applause, the organs of the old Whig party, albeit somewhat laggard scholars in the doctrines of Free-trade, being now not less vehement applauders of their results ...

LATEST NEWS, 1;Y Eik MS

... against the Douse of Peers are over. and that nobody now entertains the wish of Lord Derby anil his quondam friends of the I Whig Ministry, to swamp their deliberations by an abuse of I the prerogative of the Crown. The peerage has, we hell ve, nothing ...