... probably the mass of Whigs and Tories alike in the House of Commons and the country are prepared to support; that is to say, a bill which, while freely extending the elective franchise,” will not make much difference in net results, so far the composition ...

... Just Published, Price |ViF SOUGH THE SHUTTLE, Poems and .Songs, Cou.X whig nr Weaver, Ei rr email. jr* received the AuTHOit, or, through v* ' by ALEXANDER, Weekly Hews Office 1-8 ...

... party, and least of all the Whig party. Of all political parties that exist worthy of the name, certainly the Whigs are the party that represent the smallest number of the great British people of all classes and the Whigs also seem to me to l»e the one ...

... rating, will never return (however great their respect j for Sir John) mere nominee of the Karl of Dalhousic of the Whig coterie, the Whig party being scarcely worthy the name of an oligarchy. What I ever the franchise may Im, and whether we are to have ...

... appearance of Whig clique.—l am, ; &c.. An Obskkvbe. Dundee, March, 1867. THE REFORM QUESTION. Sir,—l sec discussion going in your paper about the chance of the present Ministry giving a Reform Bill, and a contrast between them and the Whigs. lam an old ...

... THE COOK OF TWO DISHES. WS The of my Bea, “ The We've Whigs,” —but then Me deh tall hie serving men Tories ! ...

... state of the Whig mind when it .is not merely Mr Gladstone who is absurdly asked to forego his claims to leadership, but when even Lord Russell is requested to retire is evident that thredghqut the party there is feeling soreness. The old Whigs, and especially ...

... thought the Whigs did not want Reform. I hope, however, that the Government will press in. and if they could to prevailed open to insert Dundee in their bill all would to well If the present Government cannot carry a Reform Bill, the Whigs will not try ...

... 28d May 1867. MR BAXTER’S DEFENCE OF THE WHIGS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUNDEE ADVERTISER. Sin,—I see in the report of Mr Baxter's speech on Re form to the East of Sox Reform Union that he trie to defend the Whigs from an observation by Provost backward in ...

... last year at Greenwicli they have done things which have almost paralysed their political opponents with amazement. What the Whigs could not do, they have done, and great deal more too. Of course, they have had to delilc themselves with a great deal of dirty ...

... have been in the past, opposed vaders. This truce is expected to become per- to more than one article of the Whig creed, manent. And it is the Whigs, according to Earl Granville’s story, not Mr Gladstone or Mr Bright, who are to be dished by the Reform Bill ...

... disciplined. The various parties will submit the changes demanded by circumstances. The coalition of Whigs and Radicals will perhaps break up. the Whigs become more Conservative, and the Tories more liberal. Old clemocratics will be whipped away, and new ...