... agitation has originated with that party in Edinburgh who may be termed the advanced liberals, in contradistinction to the old whigs, who are now to all intents and purposes conservative. It has been shown by the result of the recent keenly contested municipal ...

... rig's quitting the Queen's service, after having held office so many years under Whig Ministry. We believe the next session will, however, solve the mystety, and the quondam Whig Comptroller of the Household, having succeeded to the peerage and become Marquess ...

... the registration of Scotch voters sometime prior to the close of the last session of Parliament, that the leader of the old Whigs did not deign to take any notice of the new agitation. The Scottish Movement was then only in the hands of individuals. The ...

... to exert such a deadening influence upon Scottish affairs as it does at present. The Scotsman, the leader of the Scottish Whigs, has been attempting to discuss the proposal of Dr Begg upon its own merits, and has addressed itself seriously to the task ...

... afforded to the constl- wnen pemaps me only cnoice anorueu tuency is a conservative, —able and popular home, in opposition to some whig lordling lisping out the liberalism which he has been taught openly to affect but inwardly to despise. The great facts that ...

... his death, giving very general satisfaction, thaugh some of his earlier friends thqugfot latterly leaned rather more to the Whigs than was consistent with his earlier professions. He protested against the corn laws when they were first imposed in their ...

... therefore the tint, and to tbe present time the only, member for Salford. He was a Liberal in politics, and steadily supported the Whigs. He has left one son and two daughters. His son, Mr James Brotberton, Receiver-General for Excise, Stamps, and Taxes. The ...

... with the sentence with reference to the liberties of the people, we should not have been able to say whether he was Tory, Whig, or Chartist. We should most likely have classed him under the first category, because no one talks more loudly or more frequently ...

... they had asked Conservatives bring their men, and let them become freeholders by means of their societies; they had asked the Whigs—of whom our great Macaulay was probably the best type that ever existed— to encourage their supporters to join them; and they ...

... had asked Conservatives to bring their men, and let them become freeholders by means of their societies; they had asked the Whigs—of whom our great Macaulay was probably the best type that ever existed—to encourage their supporters to join them ; and they ...

... forward calculated, in his opinion, to benefit the country at large, no matter by which party it might be introduced —whether whig, tory, radical, chartist, it should have his unqualified support. (Loud cheers.) With respect to his religious opinions, was ...

... arisen since the great battle fought and won by tbe Whig 9, must make the struggle inaugurated last year shorter one than that of which such men as Brougham and Jeffrey and Cock burn were the leaders. The Whig 9 have furnished the instrumentality by which they ...