... WHIG FINANCIERS. We are indebted to the Whig party for the advo- cacy and enactment of some of the greatest mea- sures of an ameliorative and progressive character that have passed the legislature during the last 20 years; but grateful as we feel for ...

... TfIES. HULL, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1850. I THE WHIGS AND THE SLAVE TRADE .I THn country has had a narrow escape. For nearly twenty-four hours it was in danger of losing that primal blessing of all true Englishmen-a Whig Government ! Yes, on Tuesday last, Lord ...

... free-trader could hope for, or expect, t was paraded before the world as evidence of the unexampled prosperity of the country. The whig-F radical journals mounted the high horse,-thef. protectionist papers were all dumb,-andso fiatterind ivere the accounts of ...

... about to enter on a new era of taxation and finance. Well ! ;jsforgive us this time, and we'll never do so any e re 1 If Whigs or Whig ministers ever take us i sgain, it will be to keep us. We shall ever after- wiards be unfit to go at large, and must be ...

... adhere to ten hours' factory labour, and no more. The tricky move of the Whigs, who supported the Ten. Hours' Bill before, meets with the most unqualified condemnation. The Whigs intend to propose a bill for ten hours and a half, which the factory labourers ...

... Tmr -~i SAfter. July naxt;; .the 'debt! wopld- be ;88)2001.; The . assets o the cornpany in. London ;iere 27,6261., gut of whiG theyihad to pay-diveidend atA6 per cent., 8,6921.; Fe benture interest; 2,1881. ; debentiures to be paid off, 11,5001. -tetal ...

... enforced his resolutions, was masterly in style—irresistible in cogency of argument—and cuttingly sarcastic in its expose of Whig financial blundering. With lucid precision he pointed out the fatal impropriety of a nation relying upon resources, which even ...

... said successive governments, for although the original pro- posers of the income-tax were tories, yet their succes- sore-the whigs-had clung to it with wonderlul tenacity. it was really swonderful to see the different shapes this tax bad assumed when seen ...

... the Derby Administra- owM tion. So that, after having adopted the estimates, liev the law reforms, and other measures of the Whig into Government, the Tories wish, in addition, to Lo( assume the credit of this expansion of the revenue wal under the system ...

... Ministerial crisis ; and Manchester men are solemnly warned of the dangers that hang l on the uncertainties that surround the Whig Cabinet. e The whole tone of the article we take to be the shal- lowest cant that was ever put forth for the purpose of making ...

... there was anything in the Whig department, the WVhig eady section bad its own way aboat it. Mr. Gladstone, in the have Peelite department, was permitted to have his fling in red? tbe budget; and now Sir Charles Wood, in the Whig soks, department, was permitted ...

... Levy against the present Government, was neither becoming nor well-timed. Abuse of the Whigs when doing an act of justice certainly comes with a bad grace from a Whig Alderman, and Et tit Brute! may well be the exclamation of official lips. At the same ...