... the party exigencies of the mo- was mont. Chs Earl Granville~usad to be a Whig, and the Duke of dien 3cc- Argyle was a Seotels Whig by nature and tradtoRet- the Arc they Whigs still, or -what? Arc they not pre- porn olie pared to take up vote by ballot ...

... There is a remarkable relation between the early! papi re career of Earl Derby as a Whig minister, and his later T c career as the head of the Conservative party. As a Whig the ,he wvas the promoter of the first Breform Bill, as he was for of the second ...

... local administration of Scotland. Now, it of is not to be deniend that there is some room for improve- of ment. The successIve Whig Gosernments which have r practically ruled over the country for the last thirty or forty years have studded Scotland with a ...

... Mr Miller the e drove Mr Moncreiff out of Edinburgh. He was a sort goot h of little David, in a small way, vanquishing the Whig Goliath of the Parliament House. And he walked L behind Saul, in the shape of Mr Duncan M Laren, to ,i r t the songs of a saintly ...

... humiliation ,in their coming down from a man like Sir William I Stirling-Maxwell to the deeary level of the ordinary Scotch Whig member? I The meeting, indeed, was peculiarly significant of ) nothing, and produced little beyond an attempt to I discover ...

... have highly indignant at the paltry reductions so pertinaciously srticI moved in official salaries, and belonging to that old Whig his es party whose creed was, that there was a class which should at th, never be subjected to vulgar discussion and popular ...

... ehoosing a member at aill. All this is now changed. Mr Moncreiff, witltisifene that conspired in his favour, is gone ; and ties Whigs are cll tos a strait to discover a suitable successor. They find the to difficulty new of bringing forward a Man from their ...

... C taken possession of by a mob which surrounded it. At r Burntisland, there was a warm contest over a dock scheme between Whigs and Advanced Liberals, and the candidates returned were all new men except one. At Jedburgh, the elections turned on a paving ...

... political opinion. c l, The great majority of 111 which the Government has ( it at its back, is nothing to the 360 which the Whigs a of eould boast after the passing of the Reform Bill of I 1832. We probably cannot look, although we see no r ia great reason ...

... g-period-sixteen years or thereby-that eg Sir William represented Perthshire in Parliament, he gained the reputation, with Whig and Tory alike, of being l about the most accomplished, the most useful, and the best informed of Scottish meinbers, and the ...

... the discharge in full for Eit -which theywill lole as a condition ef this arrangement. pre The gathering of the Perthshire Whigs, to celebrate sod the return of Mr Parker, seems to have been a dull oh, enough affair. Fewl people of any note were present ...

... scheme of concurrent endowments, which a had the support of Lords Salisbury and Carnarvon, and s, Earl Russell and the leading Whig Lords. They It would at least have placed it in a position in which it would have had to work more zealously for its pros- ...