... The late Darid Prentice may considered its founder. In its earlier jeare the paper wet joint-stock property of the leading Whigs of the West of Scotland. From 1811 until 1837 its founder eontinned its editor. In that year Darid Prentice died, haring, doring ...

... Septennial Act, supported the best of the Whigs, including Lord Somers, was denounced the Tories of that period. How changed aro they since! The Tories of this day take a course diametrically opposite; and ao ought their Whig opponents. The mistake of the Whiga ...

... Sir Robert Walpole—unless the trial of Sacheverell will justify the introduction of the character of the future glory of the Whigs.” The Poet Laureat is, it is said, pruning his poetic ings for flight—an epithalamium—on the approaching marriage of the Princess ...

... dream, and he is now perhaps more Whig than anything else. He is, however, man of. indubitable ability, taking a first rank the Irish bar; and his appointment would, therefore, be unobjectionable, viewed the act of a Whig Government. The difficulty, imagine ...

... and the lavish expenditure of their agents, regained one scat for the ancient Whig house, bnt we may ask for what good eud ? Lord Palmerston is only more bound to another Whig family for their successful support, and will, in consequence, have large accession ...

... beauty again”—are alike susceptible to the spell which has been cast over them hy that mysterious parson from Ireland. the Whigs are to lashed into fun' • if the profligacy of Wharton or the covetousness of Marlborough are to be made odious —if the war ...

... practices are not abandoned; and as a proof of it, may mention the employment of spies and informers against the Chartists the Whig Government, I which, after their work was done, and their victims were transported, rewarded them with places abroad, precisely ...

... solicitor-general, but was a Q.C. when he was raised to the bench. He was made privy councillor in 1855. The deceased was a Whig and something more,” and was a stanch supporter of the Government during the short period he was in Parliament. Suspension ...

... made by every single apologist of the new system, that the Whig aristocracy may have all the Indian places for their relations if they only think proper to take them. The aoknowledges that Whig Minister will job, hut argues that his leavings are good enough ...

... and a beauty again —are alike susceptible to tne spell which has cast over them by that mysterious parson from Ireland. the Whigs are to be lashed into fun’; if the profligacy of W harton, the covetousness of Marlborough, arc to made odious if the war is ...

... hurtful party purposes, as for : instance, in the determined adherence of his Grace , among the very last of the nobility to the Whig clique who brought reform measures into contempt from 1837 to 1811. The Duke of Devonshire has one division of a county over ...

... the peerage, on the death of his father, Earl Spencer. The candidates are Colonel Cartwright (Conservative), and Lord Henley (Whig). ...