... that in course of time, and i not of a particularly long time, the * emancipation of Lord Rosebery may mean the revival of the Whig party in Scotland, if not e on the other side of the Border as ivell. It is y not good for man to be alone; so we learn 0 on ...

... reign was the true period of the Whig merchant ascendancy in Edinburgh. For old Adam was not only the champion of Whig principles, but the representative of the Whig merchants as a social class. Besides, although the Whigs and the Radicals had some principles ...

... nevertheless, the leader of that great and powerful party con- trived to effect more than could be even attempted by the Whigs, who were supposed to be the more liberal and more progressive party. Sir Robert Peel, during his celebrated tenure of office ...

... snethol will Lerd Lho,-e get ever the fact that Isis fabher Ahd hr, 'tboa Fe- present the great Whig house ef Argyll, which was Whig in the brave old days when Whig meant Radical, are cordial and even violent supporters of the party now installed in power ...

... means or other depriving him of his eternal and obnoxious jour. That was because on Sunday we had de. livered to us a weekly Whig paper. I used to read it surreptitiously, and to gloat over the leading articles, in which the Independent Liberals, as they ...

... recent years been adopted in several of our Australian colonies. There bad been a considerable amount of reversion to Whig ideals. ' The Whigs who went over about 1885, and bad ! { become the least advanced members of the pre- sent Cabinet, had unfortunately ...

... the long inn- 1 ings of the Whig party to a close. George mI. had the ambition of restoring the Royal pre- rogative and the personal rule of the monarch.i Hffis- first act of stateeraft was naturally the a ejection of the Whigs-the party-that stood for a ...

... method will Lord Lorne get over the fact that his father and he, who re- present the great Whig house ef Argyll, which was Whig in the brave old days kwhen Whig meant Radical, are cordial and oven violent supporters of the party now installed in power ...

... and entitled Praebium Gilliecrankianium, and also by a glance at a Song in Aberdeenshire Dutch, and another named Whig Upon Whig, or A Peasant DisaiW Song. THE TRANSATLANTIC CATTLE TRADE REGULATIONS. A correspondent writing from New York says:- I ...

... explained this by sayina that his lordship neutralised all the good ?? had done. A third protested that he represented the Whig element in the Cabinet, and the declaration that henceforth the partV should treat only with the Government was received with ...

... never rose, and perhaps did not wisl to rise, 5i into the front rank. He was a Whig of the old . scisool, the last surviving relic in public life at alt i events of the Whig party as it was in its latter days, wher led by hereditary statesmen sreeped irt ...

... in replymuc, said the toast was aseo- ciAted with a great historic party. It was over two centuries ago since the names of Whig and Tory were originated. In conpiaratively recent yead I they were changed to Conservative and Liberal, end while the Congeivative ...