... not time to do any. thing; and in their tactics, the leaders of the party put three Whigs and two Tories their list, thus to secure Whig support. We envy not the Whigs of their success, as they have been put in by the Tories, and have allowed themselves ...

... as constitutional innovators in advance of the Whigs. They could understand Russell or a Bright administration ; they would prefer positive and sincere Radicalism to the falterings of the Coalition Whigs; but if events have a meaning, Lord Derby is the ...

... Night. The Whig clique, with its solitary organ in the Edinburgh press, is not to be permitted to carry all its own way. It now shorn of its strength, and seems destined to learn at the impending election how weakit has become. That the Whigs of our time ...

... instruments of a faction is bad: but when that faction is so contemptible in intellect, and so base in principle as the Edinburgh Whigs have proved themselves, the case is very lamentable indeed. The Edinburgh constituency have become the serfs of servants, the ...

... support hundred votes. The parties of Whig and Tory, they formerly existed, exists longer, though the names may survive'to conveniently indicate that division which must always exist in the politics of free country. The Whigs have done their part in advancing ...

... presume—will only imagine their presence poisoning those waters to the majestic historian as he roves along the banks, looking for Whig members of Parliament sympathize with him in admiration of the beauties nature, we think they will amply avenged the absurdity ...

... Leslie who had unsuccessfully commanded the , Scottish army against Cromwell at Dunbar. Melville had \ always been accounted a Whig and a Presbyterian. Those who speak of him most favourably have not ventured to ascribe to him eminent intellectual endowments ...

... usual for the purpose of securing enrolment. The old Whig party, it is said, will not be strengthened by the change, which will have the effect of preventing an arrangement recently made by the Whig and Tory leaders from being carried info effect. This ...

... ofthe great parties that then divided the House of Commons and the kingdom. On the oue side, saw predominant in power the great Whig party of the realm; on the opposite benches saw, diminished in numbers, cowed spirit, but still powerful in their hold upon ...

... honourable and im- office which they had at their disposal. The Edinburgh constituency, however, thought differently. The Whigs, with unseemly haste, rushed to the streets bearing on their shoulders a respectable old gentleman labelled a politician of ...

... Friday it will be the duty of the electors to come up to the poll. Saturday the country will learn authoritatively whether the Whig historian is to succeeded by Mr Adam Black or by iberal-Conservative and hitherto almost unheard-of advoca&e, Francis Brown ...

... There may be exceptional cases, of course ; but the candidates may fairly be divided into two classes. The first is the Old Whig party, the supporters of Mr Adam Black, many of whom are likewise associated in the public mind with the Established Church ...