... the water and live. M'Ardle, the pilot, leaves a wife and and six children, and ,Burney a wife and two children.--NortA ern Whig. ...

... i curious that the device had its origin in th scheming brain of an acute Whig. Writer to th Signet. There was an inn at .Fushie Bridge, i %Midlothian, owned by a strong 'Whig partisan and the landlady of which wag popularly sup posed to be talc' original ...

... themselves, and a systematic scheme of opposition be organized forth with. This opposition is to be found by a fusion of the Whig and Conservative parties, supposed to be no very difficult matter at ' this juncture through the elevation to the House of ...

... academies. There are Os who can wield the pen of critic, tilifPher, or historian; eminent jurists have ea cceeded the great Whig and fory the rs bygo n e generatiogeneration; the aristocracy °llll try gentry are men of attainments, • M oderation, ana good ...

... dog. Shame on he fossilised Whig Peers who brought orward this proposal, but greater shame :on the Tories who supported it. The country may well be thankful to =have been delivered for ever from the Government of the old Whigs, 'who used the nation so far ...

... even something to be able to condole ourselves with the demerits, the failings, and the evil deeds of our opponents. These Whigs, say they, these insects vile * (We treat them in their proper style), May fur a time oppress the State— They own our virtue ...

... in fact, as impossible to be now as to fight for the old Pretender, and could still less become that execrable monstrosity a Whig, there remained but one course open to him. Why, lad, if the world was turned into a swamp, I suppose we should leave off shoes ...

... wish but his own to consult, there would be no compromise whatever, but that he is somewhatimpeded in his action by the old Whig section of the Cabinet, who are by no means ena,moured of the total disestablishment and Idll4endowment proposal ; that in ...

... competitor has won the game. Still, on rare occasions, when parties are nearly balanced, the royal will for a time prevails. The Whigs, retaining a considerable majority in the House of Commons, had, ,by resisting the unreasonable zeal of the ultra Radicals ...

... power. He went on to remark that Dr Johnson, the great lexicographer, had fixed the parentage of the Whigs by saying that the Devil was the first Whig. (Laughter and applause.) He did not say whether Dr Johnson was right or wrong, but he was a man of great ...

... reference to the paternity of the Whigs ; but since he has made it, we cannot resist referring to an occasion in the House of Commons when a foolish member, with equally bad taste, said— That the Devil was the first Whig in Heaven. The celebrated Daniel ...

... Bland Earl Granville did not even put himself to the trouble of replying in detail to the elaborate arguments of the veteran Whig statesman. He contented himself with a brief declaration to the effect that he could not accept the amendment of the Noble ...