... to the reputation of _Edinburgh ; and record his _vote for _Sir Black , and his friend Lord Advocate Moncreifi . . He was a Whig in politics _we need scarcely say ; but he was so little of a political _bigot that 'his most intimate _friends were two • ...

... And hence _Government _appointments are almost always biassed to some extent by political considerations . The Whig is appointed in the Whig Administrations , the Tory in the Toryand the Kadical will have his f _ull share of it when the _Radical time comesand ...

... is which makes the struggle chiefly memorable . . That Perthshire , which tul twentyfive years ago had been represented by a Whig , and which in that interval had never attempted a contest , should , after the _recent enlargement of the _franchise , again ...

... they could not be ignored . His Tory predecessor in that office , the _-M . P . for Butehad been _raised to the Bench by the Whigs , and had taken his seat as Lord _Mure in January 186 o , and Mr _Fatten was the Tory advocate whose _seniority and extent ...

... land , because in _Irelarid-you ' would be recurring _. to that _whidi'wa ' _s avowed on all hands at the time by Tory and Whig ,. _Conservative and _Eadical , Heformer . and anti-Kefprmer , to _begone . of the _^ ' great _. evils of Ireland _'—namely ...

... push their demands far beyond the _views ; of the ordinary _liberals , theprobaMe result will be a coalition between the _Whigs and the _Liberal-Conservatives . ' ' . ; : There _, _needs no ghost come from Saint _Pauls to toll us this . • Professor ...

... indignant _nftheipaltry _' reductions so ' per tinaciously . _'moved in official-salaries , ' -and . _belongingito that _' old _Whig- _party-wliose creed was , that . there was a _claaa which Bhould _nem' _, be _: _subjected ' . . to yulgar . _discuBsiqn ...