... breathless silence, the result of a mixture in the public mind of astonishment and anxiety. The programme proposed by greatest Whig statesman of our times previous to the general electionand in Scotland most emphatically pronounced upon ■with an almost unanimous ...

... second time that day six months.” No doubt the ex-Premier lias been encourage to take that step by the attitude which certain Whig Lords, notably Earl Huf-s ll and Lord Westbury, have recently assumed towards the Government. It is most serious decision, ...

... , Secretary of the Amalgamated Society, be madidate elected by the Lassie Ha e to to pot forward satirist inference to the Whig or Comenstrae it cry be deed &bent Ladies the Likes/ mtenat, awl let Is the Teeny, mob ay well he entirely The hare pat amide ...

... the Court of Exchequer, with aalary £7OOO ayear, the Cbancellor’i retiring allowance being then only £4OOO. By this gift, the Whig* thought to retain Lyudhurat as an ally ; but no bargain was made, and the Chief Baron suddenly became leader of the Opposition ...

... their Irish measure the Government shall move a single step beyond the barriers which guard the sacred rights of property, the Whig squires will unite cordially with the Tories of all classes to check their presumption and to hurl them from |>ower. If their ...

... Round these two centres several minor parties cluster —as, for instance, the Liberal-Conservatives, the cream of our old Whigs, a few sober-minded Independents. and the modern Constitutionalists, all adhere to, and identify themselves with, the great ...

... Irish Church Bill, there is a comparative lull. One subject more than local Scottish interest, however, ever and anon, with Whig and Tory Governments alike, coming the surface-a Home Secretary for Scotland. Ths matter has been up in a variety of eha|>es ...

... Armada invasion about 1570. Ecclesiastical nationalism and political freedom in Scotland go band in hand. The old covenanting whig was the great grandfather of the modern liberal In dress and modes of speech they differ, but in protestant soul they are one ...

... Sir Robert, highly indignant at the paltry reductions an pertin.• misty moved in edictal salami., mil belonging to that old Whig patty that there was a claw which leerier by h. sod popular opnn.nt . very ern. to any attention to taw chief leader of the ...

... Legation. Sir Robert, highly indignant the paltry reductions pertinaciously moved in official salaries, and belonging to that old Whig party whose creed was that there was a class which should never be subjected to vulgar discussion and popular opinion, was ...

... narrated the leading facts the history of the illstarred Argyle, and described his affecting death. closed by depicting the Whig’s Vault in Dunbar Castle, where, said, one of his own ancestors had been immured. He closed as follows:—lst What example do ...

... was observed swarming with herring, and the water-guards, having put out in boats, secured an immense quantity. —Northern Whig. Mortality is the Legislature.— The decease of Viscount Canterbury raises the number of deaths in both Houses of Parliament ...