... for doubt . that if such a bill as has been foreshadowed , should be introduced there will be political storms and wreck. The Whig landlords, who last year combined with the Conservatives to defeat the Government on question of relieving them of taxes, are ...

... hitherto, that local rank and position hare been too much looked to the be-all and the end-all in a county member. If a good Whig Tory, the case might be, belonging to one or other of the county families, offered himself, as the result of some tacit arrangement ...

... reason why, since 1868, he has been without a seat. It was thus not \ery obvious how the Earl of Zetland, a th' rough-going Whig, should have been using his influence in favour of Mr Laing. The supposition might have been entertained that his Lordship ...