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... WHIG AND TORY FORTY YEARS AGO. (From the Glasgow Gazette.) _ In the year 1821, violent Tory newspaper was published in this city, yclept the Sentinel. It was the fellow of the infamous Beacon, published also about tiie same time in Edinburgh, but abandoned ...
... Young Whigs and Old Tories.—A morning contemporary asked the other day— Will there never anymore Young Whigs? We begin to think that people will soon be asking— Will there never be any more Old Tories Both species are confessedly fast becoming extinct ...
... Radical Reformers of 1890 Not seventy men in Parliament. They made up the Whig majority. After •832, they numbered hundred and fifty, and the political organs of that day exhibited the Whigs petitioning the Radicals for alms, and praying not only for support ...
... who so acted. The Whig organs, therefore, need not be so bitter at the formation of the Independent Liberal section in parliament. It had long existed in the country, and it was formed in the House of Commons the conduct of the Whig Ministry itself. Above ...
... themselves powerless to carry any measure against the combined opposition Whigs and Tories, and they know, finally, that however little chance there was of obtaining a reform bill from the Whigs, there is less with the party now in power. It is not wonderful, ...
... Adam Black, the Edinburgh city members of Parliament, complain the recent Whig Government about the demoralising billeting system in Scotland ? And although they sat behind the ex-Whig Ministers, and were amongst the most zealous of their supporters, yet ...
... of the Whigs. Sir George hoped that the Government, if they proposed to introduce reform bill, would have a clear notion of the evils they intended to reform. In 1832, he said, there were certain plain and unmistakeable anomalies which the Whigs sought ...
... he spoke a va gue the bal- Reform question definite manner about h \Kicipate intheg ene f - member appeared Government ° WhigS ' that the than ...
... with the rather remarkable criticisms which have been current in Whig circles for some days upon Mr Bright's scheme not going far enough, we look forward with considerable hope to the Whig party taking much more advanced position than they have yet done ...
... he spoke a va gue the bal- Reform question definite manner about h \Kicipate intheg ene f - member appeared Government ° WhigS ' that the than ...
... cause sleep, and that the practice of giving this poisonous drug to children, by ignorant nones, lamentably general.— Belfast Whig. ...
... measures, an it i s thus the anti-reform spirit shews itself. The more I see of the working of the ten-pound franchise, said Whig friend the other day, the more am I convinced it would be better to have the franchise increased instead of diminished. This ...