... Where has been the proof of it during the past five years'? Of course Mr Black may be a Whig, and the ranks are welcome to the acquisition ; but as a very good Whig may, in these days, be a very sorry Liberal, we still ask what is the Liberalism of Mr ...

... the sub' ject is bound, logically and necessarily, to Come to this conclusion ; and every Government, whether it calls itself Whig, Tory, or Rtdiedl, ortis a Mosaio of all three, cannot help believing, however unwilling it may be to acknowledge it. For the ...

... hung out at windows, with Hanoverian as princely descendants hanging by their heels with is their heads cut off; and leading Whig journal$ to containing such statements as There are 50,000 d. Scotchuneen ready to cross the bordeis if the an Refocus Bill ...

... lie effect of that expression eco of natural and irrepressible indignation will do the fin Whigs: geod for all -time to 'comie. Not that 'I in think the 'Whigs 'will be long-lived., I believe, dn on the; contrary, that their political end drawethi Th ...

... Seot- lAnd from iif ib~ject condition of- beiag' the pocLet burgh of a local Whig magnate-Sir William Giliacn-Craii/, of Riceartou. the leader of the Ed}dinbnii'*h Gov. rnmeat Whigs-hava been addressing the electors, and have been receivedr ivith all the ...

... Their opponents are Messrs M'Laren and Miller, who come forward to rescue Edinburgh from being ' a nomination burgh of the W~hig Govern. meat' and boast a good deal of their o.wn inde. pendeuce. We are not concerned to defend Mr Black's consistency, or ...

... city, and with the almost absolute certainty of both these candidates being returned. There were members of the Govern- mental Whig clique, represented by the Lord Advocate, Adam Black, and the Scotsman, present at the meeting in-. Queen Street Hall last ...

... the Lord Advocate, the family relations and per. sonal friends of the candidates, and' some half. dozen members of the old Whig rump, what have we left ? Nothing, less than nothing and vanity. That 'we are not alone in this belief see what the London ...

... The miserable horror of change, which must in time reduce any country t' idiocy, obtains in 1805, with the almost moribund Whigs, as much as in 1S02. We are often tempted to ask, Has the world moved on since 1802 ? Has the whirligig of Time only reproduced ...

... plain the circumstances which evoked it. t A POLITICvAL OAM. . The Ilighlt Rlon ourable William Monsell is, ]Ilese to note, a Whig, though a Roman I Catholie, He once held office in the Aberdeeu n `iionite (overnment, and I fancy would not at ahui~ecet to ...

... obtuseness in failing to perceive what he til sees in the Whig idol of consistency and trnst- vworthiness. Can there be anything in the shadow of ta Downing Street, or a clap on the shoulder by the Whig tI Government in changing men's opinions? It is possibly ...

... assurances from 1 tbe Ministry that theywould disposeof itin someu wiiy more agreeable to Lord John 'Russell. Mr Black, an obil Whig, the past member and.present b candidate for Edinburgh, in the Uitinist'rial inte- rest-and who, I believe, will be returled ...