... in a very partial way, being confined to Mr Moncrieff's own friends and partisans of the narrowest sect of Parliament House Whigs. This patronage is, in a sense, a valuable thing. It is power; such power is very gratifying to most men ; and the country ...

... questions in Parliament. Trim ming betwixt political diversities of opinion among the Scotch representatives may have suited Whig camp marshalled by Lord Palmerston; but it is not doubtful what will the issue of such course on the part of influential sod ...