... The Whig newspapers had smashed' Mr M`Laren, and they were now to see how the citizens of Edinburgh would follow Whig example; aud in order to make the smuhingeffectual, the Church.and-Tory candidates were zealously adopted, so that between Whigs, Tories ...

... every district which was lost even in part, that loss was principally due to deficient organisation. The defeated Church-and-Whig party complain that their signal rout was owing solely to the want of energy and systematic effort; but while that is apparently ...

... against some worse men, but in Calton his prospects of success are small against Bailie Fyfe, against which the Church-and-Whig party are ostentatiously running him. In Broughton Ward, Messrs Johnston, Greenoak, and Hay are opposing three Church candidates ...

... the reformers stray along diverging paths, each dwelling on his own infinitesimal project, the Conservatives, including the Whigs, bear down in comp let First they beat Mr Berkeley, then they baffle Sir Henry Clay. Next they turn their extended frout against ...