THE LATE HUGH M0SMAN

... scope and play, and it was his delight to furnish them with ample nutriment. In politics he was.., like his father, a staunch Whig, and in religion a steady adherent of the Established Church of Scotland; and there was no measure of local or general benevolvence ...

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... Courier contains a long and fdiondly notice of this gentleman, who, as Mr. Hannay of Carlingviork, was a Nvell-known Galloway Whig in the years preceding the Reform Bill, and twice clololy contested the Dumfriee burgbs after it, w ith' General Sh arpe of ...

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... position. lie was born a Whig; he belonged to the ranks of the popular party ; and lie filled his post With a distingnished grace. lie did his host to he it good, holnest, open.hearted Whiig, nc- cording to the fiashion of his timc-n Whig who, with aristocratic ...

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... position. EFe was born a Whig; he belonged to the ranks of the popular party, and he filled his post with a dis- tinguished grace. He did his best to be a good, honest, open-hearted Whig, accordin.g to the fashion of his time-a Whig who, with aristocratic ...

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... and up to 1841, under the Mel- bourne ministry, was Chief Secretary for Ireland, where he was universally beloved. When the Whigs came again into power, in 1846, he was appointed Commis- sioner of Woods and Forests, and succeeded Lord Camp- bell as Chancellor ...

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... succession which everybody else supponed to have been settled past dispute. In 1841 be went out of office, together with the whole Whig administration. One of the imputations on the outgoing ministry of Lord Melbourne was its iltreotment of Lord Planket at the ...

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... behaviour on the part of the students. His death removes another from the now scanty number of those who first vindicated Whig politics in the Edbiburg Bet-riew. His influence as a teacher in the High School, and as a professor in the Univer- sity, was ...

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... charm of manner which nude him a favourite wherever he was knewn, He leavee a wife and two ?? children to mourn him.- Northirn Whig. DEATH OF MR. JOHN GILBERT, SURVEYOR OF INCOME TAX. We regret to announce the death of Mr. Gilbert, for many years Surveyor ...

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... conciliatory manners, and distinguished ability, ir1 a Liberal in politics, but so free from the narrow pre- Du judices of the Whigs, that as Viceroy of Ireland he ?? the made himself and his office respected by all parties in da' that most difficult seat ...

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... were fit fbr. Mr Tait's politics were professedly those of an independent Radical, swayed by a strong friendly feeling to the Whig party. BIRTHS.-On the sth inst., at 7 Oxford square, the wife of iI.M. Jack- son, Esq., of a ?? the 30tb ult., the Countess ...