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... SATURDAY, JULY io, 1869. to do, the old political names of Whig and Tory will be merged in those of Churchman and Voluntary; or rather, so far at least as Scotland is concerned, Whig will revert to its old original designation of one that is opposed to ...
... the Tory duke surrendered of his own free will his monopoly, while the two Whig noblemen clung tenaciously to theirs. It is still less pleasant to reflect that the Scotch Whigs in the House of Commons banded together to back up this monopoly ; and so far ...
... of the classic braes of the Gala, which was in the hands of a strong Whig partisan, but which, at the time, was undergoing a change of occupation or something of that sort. A keen Whig Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh got his eye upon it, and the bright ...
... contemporary :— PARLIAMENT. A Candidate with advanced Liberal principles, and regardless to toe pretensions of an effete Old Whig' to his inheritance to a seat and an enlarged constituency, may secure an exceedingly favour. able contest, by addressing in ...
... for what it is worth : he was never at any pains to conceal his sentiments. He always took care to base his opposition to the Whig Reform Bills on specific and partial grounds, apart from the main question; and from time to time he expressed sentiments which ...
... his sudden appearance as a Radical Reformer was amusingly characteristic. I had twice before, he said, been used by the Whigs as a stop-gap while they made up their internal differences; I was determined that I would not be made a stop-gap any longer ...
... fated to feel the fresh impulse that has been given to political life in the Scotch counties by the new Reform Bill. A young Whig baronet, the owner of broad and fertile acres, has taken the field against the heir to the House of Buccleuch, and his friends ...
... it is curious that the device had its origin in the scheming brain of an acute Whig Writer to the Signet. There was an inn at Fushie Bridge, Midlothian, ned by a strong Whig partisan, and the landlady of which was popularly supposed to be the orig:nal ...
... obtain it. But there are great difficulties in the way, chiefly arising from the example set in the English bill. When the 'Whig bill of 1866 was under discussion, it contained a clause similar to that which the Scotch members now seek to introduce into ...
... friend at all to the Whigs of Edinburgh, and he protested against this mode of first undertaking to take no salary, and then, when once in office, getting his friends to apply for him. The grant was warmly defended, however, by Whig, Tory, and Radical--Mr ...
... ingenious system of manufacturing votes for party purposes was first invented by an astute Edinburgh Whig lawyer, and was first adopted by the Whigs on some property on the classic banks of the Gala; but, of course, it was too good a lesson not to profit ...
... are not in a condition to judge ; but we may observe that it has only been rendered possible by the irritation of the old Whigs at the opposition shown by the students to :their favourite, Mr. Moncreiff; which has driven him to seek a seat elsewhere. ...