... unsuitable to the circumstances of the country, and which was only valuable in so far as it enabled him to provide for a few of his Whig dependents. In many of its provisions it has been found impracticable, and all it has failed to give satisfaction to the public ...

... memberfor the’ 4 is worth all the temy popularity that a departure from it may give anyone.” But shortly after this he says, “that Whig principles stop at a certain int and then turn ;” and I he alludes to this fact—that after he was unseated for the county of ...

... exposure of rather amusing bombast on both sides have accumulated sufficiently during the contest to call for some notice. The Whigs and Tories are so little separated in principle, that the speakers had to drag in all kinds of names to throw a colour over ...

... to be withheld altogether, as it may please the geuius of red tape to determine. Considering that successive Ministers, both Whig and Tory, have, by various subterfuges, broken faith with the sailor, we wish that Lord Pacet’s Act had been furnished with ...

... ted by Mr Disraeli should receive is cortainly larger than could have been ob- by any other statesman, or probably by the two Whig leaders combined, ives reasons to messure of the Cabinet be af least read a second time, Mr Walpole and Mr Henley were both ...

... to hear a good report from Belfast, where the spinners are fully alive to the peculiar position of the trade. The Northern Whig states that “there ‘are at present, on the average, of idle and partially employed spindles, about one-cighth of the whole ...

... and will throw away his part of independent protection of her Majesty’s Government, and join even the selfish and lukewarm Whigs in throwin out the Conservative Reform Bill of 1859.” ° OUt The Tunes urges some measure of prudence and self-denial on the ...

... heavier fabrics is rather weaker than usual at this season. The following on the flax trade is from the Belfast ' Northern Whig' of Saturday :—The large supplies of raw material thrown on the markets of this and the uext counties have not had the least ...

... the '45, a Whig gentleman gave a toast, The Duke of Cumberland. David Bethune. Esq., the laird of Kilconquliar, a zealous Jacobite, immediateiy after, proposed James Sibbald, the butcher of Colinsburgh, to the gre.at indignation of his Whig neighbour ...

... deter He could apres fo go farther into the question of Reform than ad dine of tench oa of i Lord Derby com- menced life as a Whig, then became a Hadical; and now he as a Conservative and as a High Tory. He (Mr kes id not expect much from Lord Derby or his ...

... ostensible cause of the honour, the real one was the services rendered by Mr Melville to the Parliament House Clique, which under Whig Administrations is all-powerful. But then for these services—arduous as they undoubtedly were, —Mr Melville was handsomely ...

... duties of Government to see that life and property are properly protected ; and from the statements made by Mr Moncrieff, the Whig Lord Advocate, when passing the bill through the Houso of Commons, it appeared that in many parts of Scotland the police force ...