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GOOD-BY TO THE WHIGS

... COOD-BY TO THE WHICS. A SONG O REJOICING. AIR-' Dear Torn, this brown jug. Good-by to the Whigs-their departure's at hand- Is the cry o'er the Iolngth and the breadth of the land 'Tis re-echo'd in gladness fromn moustain and glen, And it sounds like ...

Published: Sunday 05 September 1841
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 527 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

TORYISM v. FREEDOM

... Stanzas, by way of rider. Free Trade! the Tories must share the fame- Put a Whig in place of each Tory name; Yoil 6nd the effect will he just the same! Which Nobody can deny. Give the Whig as well as the Devil his due; He may certainly brag of a bealtbier hue: ...

There are folks so alive to Party, and so little alive to anything else, that the present suspense and syncope

... they come to displace and dispossess and annihilate the Whigs, they say— a truce with party : a species of impudence never excelled even by that perfection of it, the stage Irishman. The Whigs have received this invasion toppling down upon them with ...

ADMINISTRATIONS

... had its Sir Robert Peel in Sidney Godolphin. Godolphin, too, came into power as a Tory, but soon became Whig, go in'' farther almost than any Whig had ever done before. The minor points of parallelism between the course of Queen Anne's and that of Queen ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... moment renounced the name of Whig, 1 or separatetd his fortunes from those of his party, in order sis to allyihimselfrwith either Tory or Radical. He is the idol do ci yoar pure Whig. WhilebIelis speakitng, the old Whig he listens in a deep attention ...

LITERATURE

... Parliament by doubting the possibility of its containing an impartial member. The first act of the Whigs, says the pamphlet:- The first act of the Whigs, on the meeting of Parliament in 1835, was to oppose the re-election ?? Charles Manners Sutton (now ...

Published: Sunday 29 August 1841
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2155 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CABINET RESOLUTIONS TO SATISFY THE COUNTRY

... dodging,' 'Tis Goveroment that gets the bnard, The paupers only get the lodging:- Rlesolred, we hereby all agree With true Whig unainiity, We're very grieved te be, we're sure, At such expense to starve the poor, But beg to state (if 'tisn't nonsense) ...

LITERATURE

... represent the Whigs of 1688, and the Whigs of to-day the Tories ef that day. A very unsupportable paradox it is, based upon a jumble of names, and eked out by sophisms, to prove nothing, after all, but a certain use and collocation of words. The Whigs of 1688 ...

LITERATURE

... tthe villain of the book, a baronet high in pa a tavour with the Whig ministry of the day, and consequently ha 8 (according to our author) a prodigious rascal. The Rev, ret rMr. Croxall, a Whig clergyman, of very accommodating on i morale', arid endowe. -with ...

If Sir Robert Peel has asy bowels of cmw, for his own legislative measures, he will forward the Corn and

... after the election followed the recall of Peel from Rome at nflwd speed, summoned by a Hudson, how his lordship overwhelmed the Whig Lords by his protection. With a like benevolence he now gathera the unfortunate government beneath the umbrageous shelter of ...

SONG OF THE SEEDY

... Iinitials. Happening upon a Whig by mistake, he wras rather roughly answewed, and reprimanded beside. His letter concluded with the question, 'What do these letters stand for?' '1Off for Kinderhook,' answered the lad. The Whig gave him sixpence, and the ...

A CHAUNT CHARTICAL

... 'Grey and Times outbid In news of nations, but it's all a Kydd; Next, offside Wheeler, who in vain commends What timid Whigs complete-and trade suspends. Pen Reynolds there, the great Dumas's double, The Cockney rampdei of Trafalgat's bubble; The greet ...

Published: Sunday 16 April 1848
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 545 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture