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ON MAKING UP ONE'S MIND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EDI:MORON SKIM A plague of both your houees; I am aped.—(Romeo ..

... mortification at lois Condition, but we suppose lie only peruses our sheet as a kind of whet to the keener enjoyment of the Whig and Tory periodicals, and the better to realise the position of the poor quadruped between the two bundles of bay.] ...

Sunman!

... might continue rulers of this or any other nation so long as it has nothing particular to do. But this does not comport with Whig ideas of ruling, and therefore they must always be raising tempests of some kind, although it should be only over a parsley ...

ABOLITION OF THE IRISH VICE-ROYALTY

... business. Ile proposes a means by which that can be secured at little or almost no additional expense to the country. If the Whigs are wise—which unfortunately they seldom are—they will carefully consider the suggestion; but whether or no, it will not be ...

Summarn

... hindrance and delay to many measures of hiportance, but on account of the ground upon which the defeat will be sustained. The Whigs have many sins, both of omission and commission, to answer for but the stand they have made against the advances and demands ...

(From the Times of Wednesday.)

... which question lie was placed in contact with the perhaps suprior. mid certainly loom leisure-fed, minds of eminent men of the Whig parry. Struck with the views, he did not shrink from adopting and carrying them against the earnest protests of his family ...

THE LATE SIR ROBERT PEEL

... was with the Tories, but not of them, just as at his death be was supporting IThigs, although he could never have become a Whig. lie rose into executive preeminence upon the ruined Lopes of Iluskisson. Ile resisted, so long as that was practicable, the ...

*unimarn

... ordinary mortals—a kind of political kaleidoscope for the amusement and bamboozlement of the people, and the ever-ready refuge of Whig indolence and Conservative imbecility. But the contemptible drivelling and small talk of Lord John Russell are not the c ...

Jrclanb

... r Duffy, of the Nation said— I abhor all outrage against a woman, I abhor all coarseness towards a woman ; but I tell the Whig Ministry from this place, as I told them from other places, and as I sha'nt fail to tell them, that while Smith O'Brien is ...

orresponbaut. TliE CHANDoS CLAUSE

... under the landed interest. The objection taken by the Whigs was more. dictated by supposed party interest than because of any viola tion of principle introduced by the Chandos Clause. In counties the Whigs had not so many tenants as the Tories, and tha Radicals ...

tnglanb

... Would the Corn-laws have ever been abolished if we had not had men in our front ranks who were prcof against the old war-cry of Whig and Tory? Such a doctrine may suit cliques and clubs, but what would the great public say to it 1 Try one of your large meetings ...

Summarn

... many years ago, and was a great favourite with the public. The grant is now numbered amongst other Whig jobs, and strange it is bow ready they, the Whigs, have at all times shown themselves to do any of the dirty work of royalty. The public cannot have ...