... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... wewould hope, in any danger from either laggard Whigs or old-world Tories; and for this' we, have to -thnk the leaders of the real Liberal party. The first of the three magie watchwords of the old Whig party, in the days when Whiggismn was a faith and ...

... my suspicions of' jobbism, to which my Whig friends are getting prone. All good measure's are endangered by being 3 clogged with the creation of new and. un- 3 necessary offices. Here Jeffrey alludes. to 3 a Whig measure professedly for the Im- . provement ...

... 1851) as Baron Kilmarnock;, county Ayr. He was created a Knuight of the Thistle ini 1835, was a cordial supporter of tlhe Whig party, and on the accession of the Meolbourne Ad- ministration in 8235 swas appointed Master of the Bucirhounds, which office ...

... 17, 1831) as Baron Kilmarnock, county Ayr. He was created a Kniglat of the Thistle in 1835, was a cordial sup. porter of the Whig party, and, on the accession of ties Mel. bourne Administration in 1835, was appointed Master of er tlse Buckisounds, which ...

... The question must be which I is the best representative of Whig principled Bnt, gentlemen, comparisons are odious, and the question is, Whether Mr Ir'Laren is a better re presentative of pure Whig principles than Mr Black-Ceries of Yes and No)-and whether ...