... Gladstone, uor Mr. Disiaeii, nor the Whigs, nor I the Rtdieals that carried the bill in its improved form, for I nearly all the bad clauses were dropt ?? a division. I I will inform you, in the words of an eminent Whig lawyer, I but not of the present Edinburgh ...

... the purpose ! ] of conferring degrees and honours. The following interest- I 1 ing corresponden ce appears in the Northern Whig : — To the Right Hon. Earl RusseU. , My Lord, — A number of gentlemen of Belfast and its i neighbourhood are desirous of ...

... account of bis stewardship, and to refer to tbe great questions of the day. Whea he was canvassing the city he was asked was he a Whig. His answer was — No, he was not a Wfcig, if by that was meant the mere follower of any Eugiish party— (choers) — but neither ...

... turning out to be government by numbers, as it was called. In order to illustrate that pro- position, I referred some of our Whig friends, who, during the session of 1866, had been filled with, I think, visionary alarms on this subject, to a debate that ...

... Scotland— l heard that we had carried a measure not entitled to such a distinction as that for which more than 70 years the Whig party had toiled — since the time when, in the year 1793, Lord Grey had been defeated by the machinations of Mr. Pitt. It is ...

... the single word Atrocious ! Dr. Johnson, invoking an avenger, stipulates only that he shall not, after the manner of the Whig dog, Macaulay, rob Bozzy, line by line, without a word of gratitude. It is to be presumed that Vox Mortalis was allowed ...

... itself, and had given it due weight. The advanced Liberals are very jealous, and not a little mistrustful, of the great Whig families of the empire, the moderate men and the Churchmen, and theae, again, are determined not to b6 led all the | lengths ...

... not thus have lasted for a generation at least. But the Government made it their boast that they had done better than the Whigs, because they bad dealt with the question on the broad and sound principle that a man who personally pays taxes shall have ...

... Forces, brought in a bill for reforming the whole system of county and borough representation ; but the opposition of the Whigs was as great as any that had been offered j by the Tories. The bdl was received with shouts of derision.'-' Thousands are still ...

... ruling view of the .eience of politics the Whig party and not we •aght somehow or other to have passed tho Reform Bill. (Laughter.) Now, apart from the fact that owing mainly to the manner in which tbe Whig party- had for years past tampered and trifled ...

... the forthcoming election. Mr \I VT I Thompson, a local barrister of great wealth aad influence' has consented to stand in the Whig intern* for Bradford, ...

... great camps, each under the con- duct of great territorial families ; and it is through their aid, and under the leading of the Whig sec- tion of the agricultural class, that the towns have achieved the political position which they now hold. Had the owners ...