... 189, and at the fourth clection in 1839, the Conservative was returned by a majority of 462, after which the cause of the Whigs for a dozen years remained as hopless in the county as before the passing of the Reform Bill, and they did notagain venture ...

... Sir John said, they would find on referring to past history that Lord Palmerston was a Tory under Perceval, a Whig under Lord Grey, a Whig and something more under Lord Melbourne. He was now at the head of affairs, and he (Sir John) thought he might ...

... wishes to eat the bread of industry need not haye been idle. Our county member walked the course. Although he professes to be a Whig, the Conservatives think him a stanch Tory and do not oppose him; he is, however, pledged to vote for all liberal measures ...

... to unseat the Hon. Scott in Berwickshire ; the Earl of Rosslyn en- deavouring, with a like result, to unseat Mr J. Fer- gus, Whig member for Fifeshire ; Sir E. Cole- brooke, a Liberal, carrying Lanarkshire from Mr Baillie Cochrane, a Conservative, in defiance ...

... formation of the strict Covenanters into a separate body under Cameron and Ren wick. The concluding lecture opened with the great Whig m o ve nien of and 1683, which terminated at the time disastrously in fhe execution of Russell and Sydney, and of Baillie of ...

... would seem we are threatened even in I am desirous of recurring to those old English and triennial parliaments of which the Whigs deprived us. I shall withhold my support from every ministry which will not originate some great measure to ameliorate the ...