... William Adam of Blairadam and the Hon. Henry Erskine, Dean of Faculty, then the political managers of Scotland on behalf of the Whig interest, and it contains a report on the personal circumstances of every elector in Scotland. In those days, of course, the ...

... rather confusing, and he wondered where it would all end. When he was a b iy, political parties were known by the old names of Whig and Tory, and the Tory of that day was generally described as an obstinate, pig-headed, country squire, caring for no one's ...

... long period of obscurity, and on the whole it is more Radical than before. The parly is no longer weightoned the clay of the Whig earla,” and it can afford to strengthen its programme without the fear of important secessions. There are still many omissions ...

... on Saturday evening. Mr Smith was long • member of the Town Council and a Magistrate, and lent influential support in the Whig interest to the Raith family in the Parliamentary representation of the burghs. He carried on a considerable fishcuring business ...

... How long, hs went ! to ask, would the present position of atf nrs There were in all about 7t> Unionists, some of whom were Whigs or Lord Hartingtou's men. Lord Hartington was a perfectly honest man, but not a Liberal. ) He regarded him as a gsod stalwart ...

... political party to which each of these thinkers will belong. But purely temporary accidents influence the naming when we come to Whigs and Tories, Roundheads and Cavaliers, Jacobins and Jacobites, the Mountain and the Plain, the Right and the Left, the Reds ...

... office Leh he had done, he thought from tion of Mr Chamberlain, and the ae ef poblic consistency, and been opposed to the Whigs : they had reason to think that he w through the cause with which he b self to the last. (Cheers.) Th said something about ...

... nome yean? After 1745, Whig gentleman gave jis toast ‘■The Duke of Cumberland.” David Beatoun, qnhar, zealous Jacobite, immediately after pro posed “James Sibald, the butcher of Colneeburgh,* the great indignation of hit Whig neighbour, who said he must ...

... maiming in the lister isle—if it is not wore, and lam not sure hot it la The Times, however, appeals solely one class, tbe Whigs, who are in the tame position with regard to pawer as their organ—sadly on the wane.—l am, Ac., Troth. Kirkcaldy. 27th April ...

... or from no other motive than a desire to be safe, if by any chance sceptre should again change hands. Under .ne he had seen Whig turn Tory and Tory turn ;Mg, and had seen statesmen of the highest rank cold out one hand to Ilanover and another to St Germaine ...

... try to govern without popular sympathy. For our own part we do not believe in the Whig element having the slightest touch on the people. Good Tories have always resented Whig supremacy because It savours of ntedincrity, not because it works for the masses; ...

... he hid his head ou the ries, obwreing : The dog is gale enough, Joan. Now will I some sport with ►he while the horses are &Whig ready fur the journey.' ...