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... OF' EDINBURGH q AND THE DEPENDENT WHIGS. The Conservatives =6f Mlinburgh 'are evidently day'bylday. becoming more and more-alive to the abssrdity of thir giving theirvotesato their arch and;uus cruinls enemies 0,AeV Whigs'-pien .ho almost eveiyWbere, W hile ...
... and representation of the city e- with their constisat voting for the Whig Minist rs On . questions affecting the game of change seats and t the see-saw principle of Up with Whig and down with Tory-will tender their votes for Messrs M'Laren and Miller ...
... Coucrant may be enabled to jadge of what the 'Tories of . this city think of Adam Black, the candidate ,of the Ediuburtlh Whigs,' and of the% Lord Advocate, who soeeus to be desorted, except by his itmmuediate retailers, we clip from ans editorial article ...
... Common gratitude and common humanity alike call out for a merciful consi- deration of his present state.-I am, &c., HUMANITAs. WHIG SECTARIAN AND DENOMINATION,1L EDUCATION IN IRELAND. SIn,-In these days when apostacy and ronezgadism from high principles are ...
... the harness proving too heavy before its close. What then ? Scores of candidates offer them- selves to the electors, not as Whigs, not as adherents 1 of Earl Russell or Mr Gladstone, or as holding the o opinions of either the one or the other, but as sup- ...
... means. Both seats must be kept. Edinbu rgh must be crushed, My Lord Advocate, forsooth, will not act. except with a Whig of the Whigs-that is, with one who' will do nothing himself, and will '~t trouble his Lordship by asking him to leave hisowvn per- ...
... cleared away. It may be done thus. Suppose, for instance, that the supporters of Black and voncreiff are the Parliament House Whig clique, the Tories, and certain other parties whom I need 'not name, it is a well- known fact that not one of these parties ...
... 'oinot to vote at'all. ' This' is common ,!i ' . '. ; .i .- . . : , t , , ' h sese.. No; party is so.bound to punish. the Whigs asathe Cefise'rvatives, seeing that the former by a shameful and disbononorable ,trick'haveo for ' fIve years',iept s6'atso ...
... necessdry to support the,. Whig Bill,: be. 'at cause the Liberals, too, were. going down the scale, hi and I thought it best to arreat,tbe downward.tendency. I But afterwards 1I eaw'that the Whig Bill wasidan. gerous (that is, the Whigs having secured oflice ...
... other words, the Liberals of Edinburgh are expected to aid in returning a Tory, and at the same time to aid in returp- ing a Whig who, if he were as honest as Adam Black, would declare himself to he a Tory tJo. Principles will have indeed come to a pretty ...
... said there is a I 5 compact between the leading landlords in Rox. i 3 burghshire and Selkirkshire, that if the former return a Whig the latter must return 'a Tory. As the Hon. W. Napier lhas started in the Libe- I ral interest in opposition'to the eon of ...
... universally, recognised in Edinburgh but for the IfenvtnoOmed hostility of the old Whig clique, which he has offended too deeply to be forgiven. The clique composed of the Whig Parliament House interest, is repudiated by the healthier and more independent ...