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LIBERALISM IN EDINBURGH.(From the Globe.)be fortune of the Scottish capitalthe boards of a prettylittle theatre, all that is moet characteristic of the shady side of Liberalism. The spectacle is instructive, partly as a chapter of Whig history, and partly for its revelations of the probable results of Liberalism in a great many other cities. There are old gentlemen still amongst us who must remember when an Edinburgh Whig was a greatman, and the new number of the Edinburgh Reviewwas looked for with eagerness. Grandees sent their sons to the North in those days to study atthe feet of Whig Gamaliels. There were Whig lawyers in Edinburgh who tried to put down great English poets, and who spoke of each other at public dinners in terms which would have been a little exaggerated if applied to Chatham or MirabeauThe double ruin which has fallen on this house of blue and yellow cards is a very curious feature of modern history. Within the space of a lifetime, the noisiest of the reputations in question are forgotten ; and no successors to them, even ofsecond rate merit, have arisen. Who now reads Jellroy ? How many people can tell one anything about Leonard Horner or Lord Cockburn ? As for their representatives, the world knows their names through Vod, am Oliver Boyd'a Almanac, of course. But if an Englishman, not wholly devoted to politics, orconnoctedwith Scotland by personal ties, were to be ablo to sketch the career ofMr James Moncreiff, or Mr Georgo Young, we should respect him as a man of great and peculiar research. We should know where to go, after making his acquaintance, for information about the pedigree of Omcr Pasha, and the names of tholanded proprietors along the Lower Danube.But perhaps the reader supposes that the Edinburgh Whigs after losing their prominence in public lift*, and their literary distinction, retain the political command of their native city. This is just “ tho rub-they have lost one of tho seats, and are trembling for the security of the other. Mr Adam Black, the bookseller, was turned out by the Radicals at last general election ; and his surviving colleague, Mr James Moncreiff,M P., the last Liberal Lord Advocate, is threatened with the same fate. He has been holding a meeting to rally his forces, and has been calling on tho Conservatives for help. Tho contest will be no generous fight between two opposite parties.
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Edinburgh Evening Courant
Edinburgh, Midlothian, GB
Mon, Apr 29, 1867
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