... municipal affairs either as this advertisement in the same issue of the 'Journal' shows':— Among the thousand instances of Whig (Liberal) meanness may be mentioned the manner in which our disinterested Ministers bestow their favours in small things, -as ...

... reference. It was the report of a dinner given Whigs and Radicals compliment to their representatives the Town Council. Councillors, apparently, were thought more of in 18-36 than they are in 1936, for 340 \ Whigs and Radicals attended the banquet at the ...