... which ultimately carried the Reform Bill, Sir Andrew was returned member for the Elgin burghs in 1832. He received from the Whig Government the ap- I pointment Clerk of the Ordnance, which he held until 1835. In 1838, he was appointed Governor of Bermuda ...

... While thus representing the old Jacobite clan and chiefship, Lochiel, by the maternal side, claims kindred with the eminent Whig statesman whose resistance to the arbitrary mandates of Charles the First formed the commencement of the great English struggle ...

... considered ho}>eless. Lord Breadalbane, by his energy, his talents, and his vast possessions, was long a valuable member of the Whig part}' in Scotland. As Earl of Ormelie, before his succession to the Peerage, he stood, in 1832, a contest for the representation ...

... on the Stock Exchange.—Letter from Dublin. Opening of the Carrickfergus and Larne Railway. —This railway, says the Northern Whig, which has been constructed in a most remarkably short period of time, was opened on Wednesday for public traffic, and three ...

... industry in Lancashire, met with the highest praise in all quarters. The Tories had appointed him to the bishopric ; to the Whigs he was indebted for his promotion to the highest office in the Church. The vacancy occurred in 1848, at a time when the opinions ...

... the Congressional Committee has resolved to provide, by taxation, 150 million i dollars during the present year. The Richmond Whig, alluding to the sinking of vessels Charleston harbour, say the North has taken the first step towards making Charleston an ...

... policy. We hope, however, that whoever may be the Queen's Ministers will also the Prince's Ministers, and that no party, whether Whig, Tory, or Radical, will be ever able to claim that to them belong preferences and likings, which, for his sake, and for all ...

... give judgment on the motion on Monday next. The Puff Paragraph Plague.—Regarding this intolerable nuisanee, the Northern Whig writes as follows; and we believe there is hardly a newspaper of any standing in the country but will most heartily endorse ...

... heat had come out of it. This was political matter, for the Whits were great sinners as the Tories, and the Tories as the Whigs—they wore both in the same boat. was said that Dr Bruce once said from the pulpit that it would be a great blessing if tho ...

... afterwards Magazine was started, and into this periodical Wilson threw all his power, establishing it as a rival to the great Whig Revietc. Mr Blackwood—a shrewd, able, and active man of business, marshallod a brilliant list of writers— Scott, Mackenzie ...

... restitution. A great political crisis then arose among ourselves. The Conservatives, the Radicals, and some very important Whigs made rush upon Lord Palmerston as having acted haughtily and hastily, and the expulsion of the Government seemed imminent ...

... great circle for certain, so he will refuse the gown, he, like the Solicitor-General, did the last. After these three the Whigs have nobody to set upon the bench. Mr A. R. Clark would be the next, but he is still youth about tive-and-thirty, and most ...