... esse of intimidation and cotruptic n Lad come under his notice on the day cf the electit n in this neighbourhood, and that Whig voter bad been prevented from going to the poll, 1 have, as chairman of the Conservative Committee in this district, fully ...

... the offioe; but, if so, why should bis patrons be afraid to let him stand bis chance in competition with others? This very Whig method of doing business will not increase the admiration for our Scotch Government officials, and it is obviously unfair both ...

... peculiarly official and partisan was the assembly, which assuredly was more numerously than it was influentially attended. Whig Sheriffs and Radical recipients of party “pickings sat side by side with dissenting parsons and “Independent Liberal” bailies ...

... course in making inevitable the conviction that the principle of property is sacred to their opponents and not to them. The old Whigs never made such a mistake, and it only needs to be persisted in and practically developed to give the Tories the command of ...

... prove insincerity, 1 fear it proves self-deception ; the latter being a much commoner fault witn the better sort of modern Whigs than the former. Never was there party more the victim of its own illusions—illusions which nothing seems capable of dispelling—no ...

... dignity to hit hard the Conservative Chiefs, the general tenor of their recent policy, and to express a vain longing after a Whig alliance. The policy which has only been hinted at in Moya, is now elaborately maintained and justified in the politicalarticle ...

... Parliament to sweep off that amount ox their assets. The measure wonw only confer bos® the adjoining counties Forfar and Aberdeen, whig had no claim upon them whatever. To Pf “J assessment upon proprietors would have the effect burdening the smallest feuars ...

... position a committee of certain parties calling themselves the Liberal Committee, but whom everybody designated as the Tory and Whig combination. (Laughter, hiasea, and uproar.) He gave a narrative qf the interviews which had taken place between the Independent ...

... series of blunders costly not merely the national treasury, but destructive also of the lives of British soldiers as, under Whig management, disgraced our oonciucl of the Crimean war. certain definite work had to bo accomplished, and it was done in the ...

... of Church property. The friends of Lord Mayo enjoyed a triumph in the House on Tuesday night when Earl Russell, the veteran Whig, rose to declare that the best thing that could done by Parliament would be to raise the social position and increase the moral ...

... calculating on the sides that a future campaign may destine them to take. The reform bill, as Lord Derby predicted, has dished the Whigs,’ hut it has not left Toryism in over good plight, while the Radicals are far less satisfied than they hoped to be. How is ...

... bone of contention between parties till 1838, when it was withdrawn by the Whigs. Meanwhile it had caused the secession of Lord Stanley and several other able men from the Whig ranks. Long before this happened, however—viz., in 1833—-Mr Stanley had succeeded ...