... st, who went through all the prisons of England trying to mitigate the sufferings of those who were confiued in tnera. Our Whig Ministers are sort of bastard Howards. They do nt understand the object the great philanthropist had view. His aim was to have ...

... inquiry which may end in nothing. he Whig salaries will, all probability, be sale until the next general election ; and then the question may be, not what shall be done to the salaries, but what shall be done to the Whigs ? On the rejection of Mr D'lsraeli's ...

... subject —we will venture very confidently to assure our readers that there is as much chance of Sir Robert Peel displacing the Whig cabinet just now as of his becoming Emperor of Hayti or Great Lama of Thibet. ...

... power, and hooked himself to rank and station, like Edmund Burke, who, with all his talent and eloquence, was never admitted Whig or Tory into high office Cabinet Councils. And when Cauning had attained his end, and was about to act accordance with the ...

... great improve- , ments in the political department. For years, Tail was petulant and peevish, its haiul being against ories, Whigs, and Radicals, and not unfrequentlv against itself. It now moderately Radical. The following remarks, extracted from the opening ...

... marshals the Whig officials the way they should go, it is likely that they will feel compelled neither to halt nor to make a retrograde movement. We cannot help noticing the contrast between the support ■whic'i Sir Robert gives the Whigs, and that which ...

... this:—l ! say, Peter, some darned Tory stole half piir last ni-rht. How do you know it was a Tory, Bill 1 Because it had been a Whig he'd have taken the whole of it.—English Paper. Where is your father ? said an angry master to ! the son of his habitually ...

... they would better their circumstances by putting more money into the pockets of the landlords ? Never. Will any government, Whig or Tory, without endangering the peace of the country, able to tax the bread of the people? Never. Where, then, is the remedy ...

... of Hear, hear, will fall into disuse in the present House, as it is obviously too idle to call for utter impossibilities. A Whig or Radical who wants to know what Lord John Russell has said roust applv for information some member on the opposite side, ...

... Melgund, we si l :?pect, did not pay such deference to the prejudices of ecclesiastical bodies, as to the aims and wishes of the Whig Government. The leaders of the Establishment and of the Free Church, and, what is not so creditable to his Lordship as friend ...

... with Peel. asked how I thought we were as strength in the House. I said, very strong. But, added he, shall we have any of the Whigs They mean, I understand, to rally the dismissal of Lord Fitzwilliam : I said, I thought that signified little; that there seemed ...

... sacrificed him, all the virtue would have gone out of the Ministry, and they would have become either odious or contemptible. The Whigs may well cherish their alliance with a man of whom, even according to the hostile estimate expressed by Sir Robert Peel on ...