... distributors a few names stand out prominently, as, for example, Sir William Gibson-Craig and Lord Panimare. The Whig Lord Advocate and the Whig Scotch Lord of the Treasury for the time being, have also great influence; and there are several smaller men of ...

... PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. To show how, far' the influence of the old Whigs in Edinburgh,.who represent the Govern- ment, and inspire the Whig press with their poli- ticlIeainirgs, are from fairly representing the general feeliog-of the Liberal party in England ...

... be dragged at the heels of the Whig party, have been recently mani- fedtug a disposition to think and act on their own account, and without any special anxiety as to whether the reins of power are in the hands of a Whig Chief or a Conservative Lord, They ...

... has I condemned, because it will make more easy, bribery, I intimidation, and the other evils of the present system. Y Their Whig opponents do not now offer you the ballot, I but bear in mind that the ballot was part of the plan c of Reform recommendedin ...

... the Edinburgh Whigs, on his visit with this known addition to his influence, to a man refused to countenance. I have used the word gr, at in reference to this man, and I use it de- nignedly. He was offered the Clhief-Jusdioeship by his Whig allies. In ...

... through the influence of the Whig Earl of Star, by a majority of one, and by a very question- able exercise of power on the part of a Peer of the realm. Sir William Dunbar is a mere catspaw in the hands of Mr Moncreifft the Whig Lord Advocate, and has no ...

... list. Is it not the old thing over again, only 'a few lames changed -aristocratic Whigs, scions of aristocratic Whig families-the tagrag and bobtail of aristocratic Whig dependents? Oat of fourteen seats only two, and these subordinate, have been given ...

... the House at its forthcoming meeting. It is not our purpose to 'vindicate Mr Bright against the ill-tempered' remarks of our 'Whig or Conservative cotemporaries; neither are. we, disposed to insinuate with them that Government may not be true to the professions ...

... if a Radi- fcal of Mr Roebuck's type should start up and demand that the Whigs should not hold office unless by being tied down to conduct the Go- vernment on the basis of Whig opinions, those opinions being defined by volumes of Hunsard with the smell ...

... friend had alluded to the conduct of the Whigs in taking credit to themselves for certain measures of re- form. He bad to ask who brought in the Re- form Bill under Lord Grey's Government ? They were the Whigs-(loud cheers). They were opposed, when the ...

... place to Mr Bright -why, in the name of common sense, should the Whigs setthemselves to misrepresentand abuse him? This is to us a, mystery. By his aid.d and the votes of his friends the Whigs have-been returned to power. Is it possible that they now feel ...

... BtLi.-The Aduer- adv* reaffirms thar a meeting did take place between Lord .Juhn Ewssell and certain leading men among the Whigs, andl that rbe result was a determination cn the part ot Iord John, not, however, without a .onsiderable amount of disse-.t ...