... all doubt that both members and supporters of the old Whig party would be only too well pleased to see the Bill shipwrecked altogether. If with any colourable pretext or show of reason the Scotch Whigs could get rid of a Bill that extends the franchise to ...

... Advocate is the Rev. George Moncreiff, who, many years ago, left the Scottish Church for the English, and received from the Whig Government valuable preferment. is not meant to insinuate that he was more unworthy of it than were the other members ef his ...

... UPON THE FOREIGN OFFICE. The Standard thinks that it must be dearth of political grievances at present that has caused some Whig contemporaries recently to attack the Foreign Office. It is not, however, the general results of Lord Stanley’s Ministry that ...

... that from political considerations. From the near equality betwixt the Parliamentary supporters of the two great parties, the Whigs, ever since the first dissolution after the passing of the Reform Bill of 1832, would have been continually ousted from power ...

... should it suit the convenience of the moment, the cat’s-paw of the Whig leaders, who would not deeply regret that Scotland should be left without Household Suffrage —which the whole Whig party detest—as long as possible. They have not raised the question ...

... family in- J fluence in Parliament, with a view to future place and power. The old Whig party could not played better card; but it will no doubt trumped,’’ for ’‘the old Whig” party is detested by the new electors, and the old Palmerston and Russell reign ...

... Gladstone, and every statesman that can be mentioned ; but I have pursued the even tenor of my political way—a Whig to begin, Whig to continue, and a Whig to end—unbending, unambitious, unfactious, unswayed by any other feeling than love of mv country and of ...

... least, novel i curious. The balance of the newly-created urban constituencies is certainly, as was expected, the side of the Whig-Radicals, bat I really was not aware that the members for Chelsea, Backney, *c., were to enjoy the privilege of the much-snetred&t ...

... opinion in the country.” The Herald says“ Not syllable was uttered Thursday night by Liberal leaders. Only Bouverie—that Whig of Whigs, superlatively traditional—was put up. He was not welcome to tho House; he was not cheered; he fulfilled an ungracious ...

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... IRELAND AND THE LIBERALS. Sib.—l* Ireland in the miserable state alleged by the Whig, or Radical, newspapers, if they like the term better? According these authorities, it was not so till Tory Uorenment earns into power—the inference is once useful and ...

... inserting in your next impression the following remarks, which, as a lover of truth, I feel bound to supply A letter from an Old Whig” in your paper of the inst., gives Mr Henry J. Moncreiff the credit of ‘‘succeeding in obtaining a Cambridge B.A. degree.” ...