... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... mouse or the upturned daisy, while the Forty-Five, though so recent, had Do memories for him. Inspired by the tune of ALea, Whigs, aiva, he is tempted to singe Our cad decay in Church and State Sureosser, ne, direinnog; The Wh,:- came o'er u for a curse ...

... his pleadings, always cha- racterised by great brevity, simplicity, and clearness of statement. Mr Clark belonged to 8 the Whig school of politics ; but he was essen- t tially a lawyer, and took little interest in party . strife. So early as 1851 he was ...

... at I the outset of his career had done his beqt to bring them to the front, spite of the indiffer- F ence or opposition of Whig and Tory alike. They were, indeed, the natoral outcome of tle situation which the American revolt etmphanised, I wherein the ...

... years, there were nomin- -h ated for the post Sir Robert Peel and Sir John Campbell, 31.P., then Attorney-Gener&I u in the Whig Government. The opposing forces i immediately donned their war-gear, and the '01 irrepressible go which has all along character- ...

... laid in the Alsatia of Edinburgh; the story is one of the troubles of the active son of an Irish burglar, not of a widd 'west Whig. And the stylewould seem to prove, if it can fairly he said to prove anything, that Mr Crockett has ceased to trouble himself ...

... family w7as never in tne cease dis- a guised, and it -tas partly because of his consequent unpopularity t'ith the dominant Whig faction that he accepted the offer of a Dutch professorship. Some years after- wards an incautious sentence in one of his private ...

... Lewvis; M'Iver, the Chairman congratulated the hon. o -baronet on theabonour which Her Me~jeacy had con- a Lrg R4au~ hbVrtW.Whig ho well 'Merited it e on account of the important service rendered e by him in India. The chairmuan added that a good deal ...

... Criminal Court in Lou- b don, and the maintenance of prisoners after 1_ conviction. Ten years passed, and Palmerston a the Whig took up and extended the Censerva-r r e tive Peel's policy. He introduced a Govern- I e ment grant in aid of the police, which ...

... most progressive of the Presbyterian bodies of Scotland, thinks of these old .lectures of his. And yet Moderate, like t Whig,' at least in the later days of . t the use of that word, rather repre- aseated a temperament than a special attitude t towards ...

... of. Govern- ment employment and the legal profession have been slightly touched. A great historian, who had been an active Whig politician, and who supported his party powerfully, both by his voice and: his pen, and a great novelist, who had been for-many ...