... labopring hard to prove that it was the Whigs who began the manufacture of faggot votes in Scotland. A good deal can be said no doubt on this view of the subject, but even were it proved to demonstration that the Whigs were the first offenders, we do not ...

... House by the ears in charging the Opposition with ' a fondness for extravagant estimates ; and Mr Dalrymple, who beat the Whigs ia Buteshire. The question that called most of these men up was debate on that old vexed question in Scotland, the fagot votes ...

... journals have given currency to the somewhat absurd rumour that there will he 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 ...

... almost enough to make the old Jacobite Ogilvies turn in their graves to see their descendant range himself in the rauks of the Whigs ! Lord Airlie, however, has not given up all the prejudices or predilections of his class. He goes no further on this question ...

... labouring hard to prove that it was the Whigs who began the manufacture of faggot votes in Scotland. A good deal can be said no doubt on this view of the subject, but even were it proved to demonstration that the Whigs were the first offenders, we do not ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... profound. The Conservatives were anxious to discover some blot —some werkness—which they might fix upon in Committee. The mere Whigs trembled lest vested Interests should not sufficiently recognised and guarded. The Badiea's feared lest Gladstone should let ...

... He is an ecclesiastical lawyer, and holds appointment which entitles him to compensation under the bill. He was formerly a Whig, but has gone over entirely to the Opposition since Mr Gladstone's attack on the Church, and he became Attorney-General in ...

... considered the history what are called the Whigs and the Tories, been surprised that after great vicissitudes in our history, the two parties alwav s re-appear. Notwithstanding the enormous blunders that bi'tii Whigs and Tories have made —(A laugh)—and no ...

... the of ayo meset, and be having reestrad been the inhabitable, resolved le a party in sad in spine of the reimmishmease Mlle Whig be to Mein& Iles bmilatiene Tibbs Dunbar. The *led le ensure WNW on the of z d and sad there might be i. in be amid not join ...