... scope and play, and it was his delight to furnish them with ample nutriment. In politics he was.., like his father, a staunch Whig, and in religion a steady adherent of the Established Church of Scotland; and there was no measure of local or general benevolvence ...

... cannot but see that there were fault' of conduct on both sides, and that the ardent, but often not well-timed efforts of the Whigs to bring about organic reforms, were met by an ill-judged and harsh severity on the part of the then overbearing and narrow-minded ...

... Courier contains a long and fdiondly notice of this gentleman, who, as Mr. Hannay of Carlingviork, was a Nvell-known Galloway Whig in the years preceding the Reform Bill, and twice clololy contested the Dumfriee burgbs after it, w ith' General Sh arpe of ...

... political s3oldier; he had entered with all his heart into the battle of Reform; and from that time forward he held in the great Whig army a place, if not of command, yet of trust and influence. Perhaps no man was better acquainted than he with the secret history ...

... take pluee on Friday. next. IRS IRISH INTHLLIGEIV;CB, COMMUTATION OP SENTENCES. Belfast, Wednesday Brorning. The Sortlhern Whig of this morning says It has rebeived a ?? telegram from Mrs. Herdman, who in now il Dublin, announcing that his Excellency ...

... territory to .slavery, gradually alienated C him from that party, - while his address to the c Massachusetts Whigs, on The Auti-Slavery h Duties of the Whig Party, tended to increass that ?? in 1848 he was asociatedt 'ith the Free Soil party and gave them efficient ...

... d minions of Government at Drumelog, and were d in consequence hunted and harassed by the . troops sent out to capture the Whig rebels. The I incidents to be related will be best under. bi stood when given as related by old James oi Gibb himself, ' number ...

... time to give his services in furtherance of all important social and political movements in Glasgow,. He belonged to the old Whig C party, asid identified himself with the movement x which issued in the Reformn Bill of 1S32. He also advocated the repeal ...

... Buchanan was a keen Whig, but his keenness was always tempered by I admirable good sense. It is Cue to him, and such as him, that, as the Reform questions got burning, there was not sedition and indeed oare I revolt. He was one of the old Whig clique, who fought ...

... sc. cepted office under the Duke of Wellington, and on fhe retixement of that Addministration, and the acces. lion of the Whigs to power, Lord Palmerston became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs-a post which, untl his temporary retirement in 1831 ...

... possessed a large ?? of information on the history, civil and ecclesiastical of his native country, and was deeply imn- bued with Whig principles. He formed very decided opinions on the various questions of the day, and these he expressed in language which he ...

... legal pro- fV,: ?? which from enirqyycars bh had cbosenfor himself. At the outset of his career he associated himself with the Whig school, at the best period of its history, but, unlike many of his contemporaries, he sought no personal advantages from pojlitical ...