... 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 Whig Cabinet into a ditch with his visionary flesh and blood arguments. In fact, so palpably were the Scotsman and other Whig organs at that time trying to render Gladstone unpopular with his party, and an object of jealousy the great Whig houses ...

... would prefer the present time any other. I may add that I owe allegiance to the Whig party; for although I have always supported their Liberal meaeures a volunteer, the late Whig Government put forth their whole power and s'rength, through their chief otfijial ...

... that gentleman's popularity with the Radical electors. In that case, we should have a couple of Whigs, or • Whig and a Tory, started for the city. The Whigs, of course, at. certain to claim at least one of the mats under any circumstances, and I hear that ...

... of the city. Whether they may able to oust him, time will tell, but one way to secure this result is for the Whig organ, and the leading Whig speakers, to affect to treat with contempt the formidable opposition they will compelled to face. Take for example ...

... franchise sufficiently high to show that the voter was an industrious artisan, and comparatively well off. More Liberal than the Whigs, Mr Disraeli rejected this arbitrary classification, and by the generality of his prin- ciple has established an equitable ...

... having done what the Whigs should have done, but did not. The head and front of Mr 3l'Lseee's offending in the eyes of the Scotsman is no doubt his being a member for Edinburgh at all, thus invading the monopoly of the old Whigs and Parliament House clique ...

... rising is now completely at and there is no apprehension of uither : j Fknianism Belfast.—On Sihirday evening, says the Northern Whig, the Belfast police made a descent upon an extensive gambling establishment lii'chic s Place, and captured twenty-six persons ...

... the formal and supposititious lines of Whig circumvallation on such a question, was a sad encroachment on the domain of a party which wished to be supposed the incarnation of the popular cause. But while the Whigs were labouring to make their cause popular ...

... the damnatory feature of all previous proposals of the Whig Government and the Liberal party. Whoever shall have resided in a borough for One year and paid the poor rates shall have a vote. The Whigs, in their projected additions to the constituencies, ...

... amgaically together. But let there be no mistake about the terms of the alliance. If the Conservatives are to act with the Whigs, the Whigs must put the WO. side of their politics well forward. I lie interests of the clergy must be secured. The Conservative ...

... returns are just published, detailing the proceedings the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The Spectator (which condemns the Whigs for abandoning the appropriation clauses carried against Sir U. Peel) has the following abstract: The Irish Church, which ...