... kindly, intelligent man, | aad he will do more to control the itrnorant obstruction of . Toryism than half-a-dozen ignorant Whigs could do. For £ the business of legislation certainly will be most valuable ally to Lord Advocate Young. Whether the Lord ® ...

... for many years it returned steadily Sir Arthur's younger brother, the well remembered Charles Buller, once the hope of the Whigs, but who was snatched away in comparatively early life, and while as yet he had given earnest only of what he might become ...

... Townsheud that I should still appear as if I were, as before, under the displeasure of the Govern| meat, and separated from the Whigs ; and that I might be j more serviceable in a kind of disguise than if I appeared !oj enly. Accordingly, Daniel bowed io ...

... agree on some scheme of concurrent endowment. Here the help of Earls Russell, Grey, and other disaffected or disappointed Whigs, would be given to the Conservatives; and among their followers an effort has been made during the past day or two to bring ...

... journals have given currency to the somewhat absurd rumour that there will be a cave in the Upper House, into which some of the Whig Peers are expected to creep. What good the Conservatives are to expect from anything so ridiculous we are rather at a loss ...

... loud laughter from the Conservatives.) Hon. gentlemen may laugh, but they cannot deny the fact that the votes created by the Whigs were in furtherance of a great public object, whereas those created in recent times byt he Tories were for personal aggrandisement ...

... Whether Liberals or Conservatives shall be in power in 1874, who can tell ? but be the conduct of affairs in the hands of Whigs or Tories, we may be sure that the funds necessary for the thorough success of the projected expedition will be forthcoming ...

... Late Ellice.—The London Scotsman, in a memoir of Mr John Black, formerly editor of the Morning Chronicle, says—That eminent Whig and excellent man, the late Edward Ellice, so long M.P. for Coventry, was great friend of Black's, and contributor to the Chronicle ...

... Radicals going down to plead on his behalf. A ballot was taken for the Liberal candidates, in which only those who voted for the Whigs at the last elecj tion were permitted to take part. The result of this ballot was to leave poor Mr Odger third on the list ...

... the House of Lords is the talk of every one. It was delivered with much of his former vigour a political critic. Hardly any Whig joined in the Tory cheers which greeted him as he denounced the President of the Board of Trade, and attacked his colleagues ...

... extensive family estates in Henfrewshire, on the death of his father, Alexander Speirs, Esq. of Elderslie, a leading and consistent Whig, who was at once the Lord-Lieutenant and member fur the county. The lamented deceased was educated at Eton ; in 1858 he entered ...

... for an opponent. The deceased peer made a Lord of the Admiralty in 1832. and subsequently held variout high offices in the Whig Administrations. He was first married to his cousin, a daughter of Sir Thomas Baring and she dying ten years afterwards, he ...