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... parties of England which had been held by Burke, has taken leave of another of the many fields in which he reaped renown. A great Whig light has become self-extinguished. Henceforth the poet, essayist, orator, politician, all are merged in the historian. It ...
... THE WHIGS. (3forning Herald.) Centralisation has- latterly become the principal idol of our Whig and Liberal statesmen. The idea seems to be to convert the kingdom into a bus, hive of functionaries, owing their elevation and- iimportance to Whig officials ...
... chanic Institutes, in a further stage of the season, will be their next resource. The great boundary lines which separated Whigs and Tories are no longer distinguishable. The policy of Sir Robert Peel re- garding the Corn Laws was very much the cause of ...
... of the facts. Edinburgh has been, ever since 1831, one of the few strongholds of Whiggism. It has a little knot of aspiring Whigs, called at Edinburghl the Par- liament House clique,' by which clieue all elections have been managed, ever since the passing ...
... Because the Whig party d choose to start a man who represents none but them- selves, nra all the other parties in the city to do the same ? And if they do not, and s only one other appear. are they then either all t to vote for the Whig, or not vote ...
... several years, under both Whig and Tory Administrations, English Minister at the Court of St Petersburg-and in the Memoirs and Correspondence of Charles James Fox, edited by Lord John Russell, we find astounding revelations of Whig policy as inspired and ...
... its members are so entangled; and if it were I not for the hopes of a pure Whig Cabinet, and that a share of the power of Government would again fall to I certain influential Whig families, it is certain that the Commons would never have asserted themselves ...
... TO THE EDITOR OF THE GALEDONIAN MERCURY. Sin,-I read your strictures, in your paper of yes- terday, on the conduct of the Whig clique, and your report of the meeting of the Liberal Committee. I am bound to express my undisguised astonishment at the whole ...
... y a copy of Friday's Scotsmen to every elector in Edinburgh-the Whig Lord Advocate, with salary and fees amounting to about L.4000 a-vear; Mr E. Ellice, M.P., whose re- ]ativcs are Whigs and Government place-men; Dr Robert Lee, who enjoys some L.1400 ...
... 31, 1856. SECOND and THIRlD EDITIOXS L're PLublishcd conltaiing all the Latest News of hillOrtnee-. TImE tactics of the old Whig party in this City have become so transparent, that its defenders have been reduced to the stale trick of getting up a quarrel ...
... names, the words Whig and Tory, although they are not much above thirty years old, having been pressed to the service of many successions of parties with very different ideas fas. tened to them. Explain, the origin of the words Whig and Tory, and ...
... influence every day, and bid fair to drive the pure Whigs entirely from ite field, and to return both the mem- bers for Edinburgh. Hence the dislike of this party to Mr M'Laren. At the election last winter the Whigs returned their candidate, Mr Black, by what ...