... not have been foreseen was the defalcation of so many professed Liberals, and least of all could it have been surmised that Whig nobleman should lead the opposition. The dread of Mr Bright has been conspicuous since the beginning of this session, hut if ...

... Church any i privilege of the franchise the great body i “l* li ? hte 7 wor,h 1,0 Mminded Mr people, hill which the great Whig families I Wul lu ~,a' H'«> Universities were founded when ma«* | been conaollerl, and which the houses” of Bedford i c, ...

... that a man who till recently waa f Liberal Administration, and who entered Dn der tbe patronage of a long-tried and conu«t«bt Whig, and professing Liberal prineiplea, should ' * ■ 'V-N ■ k. V • ha»e come forward as the leading opponent the moMure, was d ...

... not a finger has been stirred nor voice raised in all Scotland against the bill. Thu Tories canrot do it, and the lukewarm Whigs dare not. The voice of Scotland has been expressed with unanimity and amount witnessed only on great occasions, olid indicative ...

... like Sir F. Crossley are all in favour of the bill. is only the Tories, aided, unfortunately, by a small knot of aristocratic Whigs, together with two or three disappointed place-hunters, who are opposing the bill. Tlie voice of the country been very plainly ...

... tenants of a Tory landlord. Ihev could eount the number of votes he could command; and be was sorry to say that some of the Whig landlords were very little better. Ewing, M.P. for Paisley (who had to leave the meeting at this stage the proceedings), expressed ...

... smart inflicted by the common people at last election still rankling and sore that is now making the lukewarm and the old Whigs in general so cold. But the enthnsiasm ia not confined to Scotland. In Newcastle, Carlisle, North and South Shield**, Sunderland ...