... that he will long hold an office which he cannot fill with both ease and honour. What next? Something like a hint of future Whig tactics is let out this morning in a paragraph in which the Scotsman announces that Mr Charles Cowan came forward at the last ...

... Raynhara, son of the Marquis Townshend, was the only candidate, and, consequently, was declared duly elected. Lord Raynhara is a Whig. At Newcastle-on- Ty ne, Mr Ridley was elected, Mr Hartley Kennedy not having come forward The Right Hon. M. T. Baines was ...

... or to acknowledge them in • substantial way, Mr Russell merit' a testimonial. He really worked well for Mr Black and the Whigs, dealing all around him those bludgeon blows to which he knows so well how to give force and weight, and which are, perhaps ...

... House of Parliament has gone. The Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal, and Premier Duke and Earl of England, died yesterday. He was a Whig, and though '(>f the most illustrious of our Catholic families, was so disgusted at the Papal Aggression, that he speedily ...

... danger was apprehended until Sunday night, when a serious change for the worse took place. In politics his Grace was a stanch Whig. He was highly inceneed at the Papal and the same year renounced the Roman Catrofina and passed over to the Anglican Church ...

... courtiers. No one could trust his friendship for an hour. His friends speedily palled him, and he as speedily threw them off. The Whigs must have expected his base desertion. In middle age Ills friends were table companions. As be grew old he preferred young ...

... Peace Radicals like Mr Cobden, but that of the belligerent Radicals like Mr Roebuck; that he is opposed by the aristocratic Whigs, of whom Lord John Russell and Earl Grey are the types; that all the Peelites are against him—perseveringly hanging upon his ...

... Boswell's Johnson. The curt, stinging, and contemptuous preface to the article on Johnson in which the then rising hope of the Whigs attacked the recognised champion of the Tories, and that on his own chosen ground, had wounded sorely all the set with whom ...

... Somers, and gave its votes to an Anti-Ministerialist. New Ross was ordered to return Sir Thomas Redington, a Liberal of the Whig pattern; • candidate of a more decidedly Irish tinge was available, but the Idinisterialists insisted upon Redington. Mr Tottenham ...

... our ablest and most influential citizens no one will question, has been on what may be called cat and dog relations with the Whig and there has been • great deal of sparring between them, but the newspaper had of course more frequent opportunities of carrying ...

... Peelites. Of Graham, whom Napier today convicts of fresh disingenuousness, it is said, “He set outa Whig. then became a Cobbettite Radica!, again became a Whig, and lastly a Liberal Tory, the fash of Peel. Of the latter it was said he had many f »wera, but ...

... book denied, the good feeling of its author questioned, ar.l his vanity broadly asserted. Because Christopher Nati' was not a Whig, he was an over-rated,man ; because he made some rough references to Mr Macaulay when that object of your contemporary's idolatry ...