... after showing the difference between the two epochs—the Palmerston and Russell epoch and the Gladstone and Bright epoch ; the Whig regime and the Radical—observes that England s natural leaders must at once bestir themselves, and a systematic scheme of ...

... feeling of uneasiness at seeing ten springs of descent grafted at stroke in the House of Lords. The sons of Whigs elevated to the Peerage—nay, Whigs themselves to whom the accident happens—often drop behind into Conservatism ; and how is a Hous • of Lords ...

... spared played sae merrilie ! Oh I wasna* a roguie, A roguie, a roguie ; Oh ! wasna' be roguie To play merrily ! He played The Whigs got their ain Said, lae be fa* and yese be fain Syne gied’s ** The Chiefs to come again Nor aocht reward or fee ! Oh ! wasna* ...

... elected representatives of the State. The Tory newsj)ai>ers and the gentlemen in Scotland having close connections with the Old Whig jMirty in Edinburgh, and contributing articles to the Times and other London J)ai*ers adverse to the popular and radical policy ...

... in a very partial way, being confined to Mr Moncrieff's own friends and partisans of the narrowest sect of Parliament House Whigs. This patronage is, in a sense, a valuable thing. It is power; such power is very gratifying to most men ; and the country ...

... station, and influencing others by his example nearly much, or it may more, than his precepts. Ho entered public life a Whig, or Whig and something more. His father was more adicted to the study of natural history than [lolitics ; but the family had great ...

... same interest. Any division in the Libera! camp would issue in certain defeat; and oven without division on the part of the Whigs, the rnn was so close last election as to make their chance doubtful on this occasion with so popular a candidate again in ...

... ordinary severity that Earl Russell’s third letter to Mr Chichester Fortescue has attracted so much attention. The veteran Whig leader cannot keep his pen from paper. Three times already has he propounded different views on the Iriah Church; it really ...

... for the Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities. Sir Henry is, like his brother, of the old Whig school of politics ; and has enjoyed for Some years, by appointment of the Whig Government of the late Lord Palmerston, sort remanent sinecure of some £6OO annually ...

... bittsrnesses. Another somewhat curious matter has just come up in connection with a legal appointment mads some years ago. The Whig Government bestowed Sir William Gibaon-Craig the somewhat honorary office Lord Clerk Register without fixing the salary, although ...

... the dying out of those religious differences which had worked so much mischief in the country. The Linen Trade. —The Northern Whig of Saturday re|H»rts the state of the Pelfast linen trade as follows .—Liucns—Brown —Power-loum.—Very little change has taken ...

... able to boast, after sacrificing all the public declarations of more than thirty years, that, at least, he had dished the Whigs'” Their majority on the Irish Church question of CO on April 4th, 1868, has risen by 23d March 1860 to 118 ...