... 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 ...

... and that those who advised different course would not be found on your side on the day of trial ; and so it has proved. The Whigs did all they possibly could to upset tbe plan by suggesting other courses quite impossible be carried (such the annexing of ...

... In it. Some of the Roman Catholic Peers, led by Lord Denbigh, are reported likely to oppose the bill, while Mveral of (ho Whigs,” as (hey are offer strenuous and determined opposition. It has been calculated by our contemporary, the John Bull, that it ...

... It is refreshing to notice that although the meeting was. as I believe, a Whig meeting, none the speakers pay the least attention to Mr Gladstone’s position as leader of the Whig party. Nothing was further from the mind of the meeting than that. In fact ...

... politics in this election, and then setting up man after man to laud to the echo Whigs and Radicals who support Mr Gladstone, and to abuse to the utmost any honest Whigs and Radicals who support the Lord Justice- General (of whom, I am happy to svy, there ...

... instance this year, as well during the last, that were the matter left in the hands of the Whigs, should stand small chance of getting reforms in department. The Whigs are all for party, and nothing for mankind. They love marching under certain banners, and ...

... accepted by the Ministry. Hence, probably, it was that there was discussion upon the important stage the second reading. The Whigs felt they had so power in the matter, and that whatever protestation they might make with respect to details, they were incapable ...

... assessed for the poor. Now. according to the original bill, before an alteration was forced upon Government by Mr M'Laren and his Whig friends, every one of those 4500 householders would have been entitled to register and to vote, because they were of full age ...

... FnmU Hollao.l, OUles ot Hamburg, “renun. and I,aback, dweder, and Airway «v«, L cdcu&UU. Irttmi tftt CONSPIBACT OF THE SCOTCH WHIG MEMBERS AGAINST THE WORKING CLASSES. IB —When any change in the representation proposed, the first question member Parliament ...

... A. Guthrie. E q., Idol Lane, London ;G. Armitstead, Esq.. Dundee ; and W. H. Scott, Esq., London. Mr Guthrie is a Liberal Whig, and claims connection with Dundee by family ties and associations. Mr Armitstead is a merchant of high standing in Dundee ...

... efforts in London in pressing the claims of the Border burghs to a member their own. He severely criticised the conduct of the Whigs, who had given them the cold shoulder, and done ail in their power to prevent the enfranchisement of the working men of Hawick ...

... they were all aware to what that had grown. The Whigs wished to tie them down to bard and fast line of -£4. This, however, had been defeated. As a faction cry, and a word to conjure with, the local Whigs kept shooting about faggot voters, but when it came ...