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LITERARY NOTES AND GOSSIP

... the AcederrvoJ MI E EownD AnNor.nD will publish in the autumn the Diaries of George Howard, seventh Earl of Carlisie, the Whig statesman of thic middle of the century, who is best known in hi-tory 7s havinul been twice Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Th ...

THE UNPUBLISHED BURNS POEMS

... Parliamenet for the huryhe, The catn- didabtec were James Johuntons of Westerhall, Tory; rand Patrick M~ill. y r. of Dais wirntosa, Whig. Miller's fa~therlthe inventor of steam navigation -was Burns's landlord, was onle of the electing dols- gales, and had mlade ...

REMINISCENCES OF MR GEORGE RUSSELL.*

... young Liberal in a Scotch country house, he was taken *with the young man's conversation and pleased to find that he was a Whig. When the party broke up he remarked to his new friend, Well, I am very glad to have made your aeqnaintance, and now, you ...

THE THEATRES

... contain a sii~gle Radical, rand he added that he wiould vote against the - Government as long as they brought forward Tory tor Whig measures. The-Horeme ule Bill, he said, ia strongly marked with distrust of the Irish -people. What was given was given grudgingly ...

HEATHER IN LITERATURE

... HEATHER IN LITERATUItE. The undeniable trnth of Claverheuse's remark reminding fause 'Whigs that There are hills beyowl Pentlasnd and lands beyond Forth has sunk very deeply into the Scotch mind. The untravelled Soot is apt to forget the existence ...

LITERARY EDINBURGH TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO

... was still regarded as one of the fine arts. Advocates, merchants, Lords of Session- most of them belonging to the dominant Whig cliques of the time-were in the habit of dining together at various houses and corns- cating afterwards. When such a man ...

CENTENARY OF GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY

... (Renewed laughtar.) Hle reme.-uhered lung ago that Tuilochgorau c was prescribed as a oure for the bitterness between t Whig and Tory, and his brother Norosan named e curlimig for the same thing. It might be scorth n-bile to trv the cure of such a ...

MR GRANT DUFF'S DIARY

... articles, although ina increasing infrequency, up to 1861. . It w1as in 1852 that he became a Ireinber of Brook's, the great Whig Club in St James's Street. It was not long before he enamined that usost cherished possession of the club, the betting- hbook ...

LITERATURE

... emoted-- I have no resppct whatever for Whigs, but I have a great deci of the Chartist in nsa. I This saying, of couirse; does not mean much ; it! Was, ?? suspect, the emphatic expression rather Iof dislike of the Whigs than of sympathy with i 'the Clsartists ...

DIALECT AND LITERATURE

... tieetuld wife, and say to ilka yin, ' Ye wiibaa loss ocht lately, did ye,- gaid -wife?' Or again- Than ahoen were never made for Whigs, but for honest Khng's folk. Na,: ua, thae dinna gree w I thee niogss.broe an. Thae sort wi' narrow nebs and single soles. ...

THE POLITICAL CREED OF ROBERT BURNS

... Robert Dundas, the Lerd-Advocate of the sedition trials. He lived to be heartily ashamed of this. The dishonour to his great Whig friend Erskine, Burns treated with withering sarcasm. Talents to deserve a place are qualifications - saucy. He concludes ...

OLD GLASGOW EXHIBITION

... famous bail a in the Shawfield 7-Mansion. This no doubt! , fretted, and explained the severe measure dealt 1 out to the proud Whig town. It is not pleasant to read of the efforts it cost the brave Provost I r to recover from thie Governmoent at St James ...