... Greenwich, was one of the most distinguished pillars, that must bear the full responsibility for all that was done. We hope the old Whig officials, many of whom must be members of the new Oludstonian Administration, will remember that they, like the Tories, have ...

... 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 ...

... 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.” ...

... way, an incident which serves show how the electors of Dornoch are dogged by the officials of a Whig house, and in certain cases under the encouragement of Whig judges. This Court was attended by Mr Loch, the Duke of Sutherland’s factor and one of the candidates ...

... party colours have means been constant. Blue has generally represented Toryism, bat in Westmoreland it was the badge of the Whigs ; Radicals have usually selected green, probably with a covert reference io their followers, but occasionally have selected ...

... appointment of Mr Herries, a politician of the Liverpool school, Chancellor of the Exchequer, bad estranged a section of the Whigs who wished to see Lord Altborp at the Treasury. Domestic affliction added to his distress of mind, and when several of his ...

... they allege, only a reproduction of an old Whig Government flavoured with a very few representatives of the new Radical order. Mr Gladstone has allowed himself bo governed by aristocratic influences and by Whig precedents ; and instead of selecting a strong ...

... is the feeling of irritation produced by game-preserving. Not that Conservative proprietors arc keener game-preservers than Whig—for indeed they are generally far less keen—but all the odium attaches to them. The farmers regard with bitter aversion those ...

... supporter of the present excellent Government. Mr James C. Traill, of Blaokheatb, supposes, from his connections. that must be Whig, and then he indulges in the usual cant of his party about letting tenants alone. It is just to be let alone we want in ; neither ...

... the general character of the entire Ministry. That it will be a Radical Cabinet, as distinguished from a Palmerstonian or old Whig, is probably the first general impression produced on one by the fact that Gladstone, with all his waywardness and all his ...

... indeed, not very much more than a ditto to Mr Gladstone; and although he has always been reckoned fully more than an avernge Whig hack, his abilities either as a statesman or a debater have never been declared to be of transcendant brilliancy. It would ...

... sits at the Board ot Trade. Others of the leading Radicals are the Poor Law Board and the Board of Wot hs, while scions of Whig families engross the ,remaining Secretaryships of State; and while Mr Stansfeld has minor but laborious post, the Adullamite ...