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LITERARY NOTES

... Tweuty-eight Years' Experience as an Irish Mditur, by Mr T'lrlmas Maclaknight, the well-knowni editor of the Beltast ?? Nortlhern Whig, and author 't Tue History of the Life and Times of Edmund Burke and other wvorks. Mir ackukaiabs personal experiences make ...

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 ...

PIC-NICS AND GAMES

... lloen Algas. Derby iUogagementl- Fillilford, Ninns, Porwir, ?? Wli'I I eoImillI iolIr, Lyeoldol, iliunca, llIowlla, Lap. I whig, Esthor larko, Silrdar, Lady liee, Lady timan, all Laide Zobatm8IIXm ?? Aliellaoliamll Stakfit , drindowti-Cowl. Carlrgli.- ...

THE UNPUBLISHED BURNS POEMS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 ...

LITERATURE

... space are very narrow, and Mr Brown has avoided giving the erroneous version of Scottish constitutional progress into which his Whig sympathies led Hill Burton. His attitude in regard to this danger is typical of the reserve of knowledge which lies behind ...

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 ...