... parliamentary or financial reform. At that time the most liberal whigs were far more conservative than any member of the present government; but a new party arose the Commons, and made the whigs radicals, and, to all appearance, the conservatives, influenced ...

... THE WHIG BUDGET AND CONSERVATIVE POLICY. Tm resignation of the Whig Ministry has completely taken the country by surprise, and unexpected was the event that the leaders of the great Conservative party were at the time busily engaged marking out their ...

... THE WHIG LAMENT. Air, —Exile of Erin. L /Performed with great applause at the Assembly Rooms, Leith, Monday, Dee. 20. There lectured in Leith a sage Whig politician, His sconce, wise and learned, sad visions did fill— As sadly he wailed o'er bis fallen ...

... PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT. London, Feb. 18, 1851. Thb long and anxiously hoped for ftnaneial exposition of the Whigs ha* length come out, and, like most Whig schemes, has dissatisfied the expectations of all parties, save its conoocters themselves. The agricultural ...

... THOUGHTS on illumination night. Bull view the Whigs with caprice Drifting to war, precipitate for peace ; w threatening Cronstadt o'er the drunken bowl, warning cautious Charlie from his goal; Now grudging gunboats for the Northern war, v w launching ...

... PROM OUR PiUVATK CORIUWeo.VOE.VJJ. The affair* of the State proceed in title essentially characteristic of Lord John Russell's whig principles. Afraid look the evils pest legisla.ion fairly in the face, and acknowledge the errort which bare that been engrafts ...

... the still more formidable and significant destruction it lias dealt to the Whig ranks. Last in point of time, but first and foremost in point of importance, the defeat of the Whig Home Secretary, Sir George Grey, in his native Northumberland. His victorious ...

... The Whigs then denied the divine right of kings, which no one maintained, and this was the sum and substance their liberality. There was not then a third party in the Commons, representing the interes the trading and mercantile classes and Whigs and ...

... no party so utterly destitute of principles as the genus London Whig. (!) In the earlier portion of his letter the writer endeavours to make out the Whigs respectable possible. The Whigs have no idea setting themselves at the head of any questiou that ...

... still attachos to one class of politicians, hut they are now far more liberal than the whigs who, before 1832, agitatod for Parliamentary Reform ; and as for the whigs, whioh then constituted a great party, they have almost ceased exist, being, as it were ...

... most favourable for the ex periment. The occasion was the celebration of the retirement of Mr Ord, late Whig M.P. for the town, and all the Whigs which Newcastle possessed came to eat their dinner, and drink their wine in bumpers to the health of Mr Ord ...

... which combinations they have we live. It may happen been almost obsolete, —it has recently hap- Whig traditions, indeed, pened in this country— hover about few Whig that one or both of these families; but the names parties have undergone of Pitt, Fox, and ...