... WHIG AND TORY FORTY YEARS AGO. (From the Glasgow Gazette.) _ In the year 1821, violent Tory newspaper was published in this city, yclept the Sentinel. It was the fellow of the infamous Beacon, published also about tiie same time in Edinburgh, but abandoned ...

... Witcherast in Pennsylvania. —The Chambersburg (Pa.) Whig, relates the following singular instance of superstition, which proves that the belief in witchcraft is not yet done away with correspondent, writing from Fulton county, informs us of a singular ...

... who so acted. The Whig organs, therefore, need not be so bitter at the formation of the Independent Liberal section in parliament. It had long existed in the country, and it was formed in the House of Commons the conduct of the Whig Ministry itself. Above ...

... Liberal party generally ought to be preferred to the subsidiary posts, instead of the relations of the leading Whig statesmen. In the last Whig Ministry (Palmerston's), eight out of the fourteen Cabinet seats were usurped by three families, and in the ...

... yet not inclined to the length of supporting vote by ballot. Although the Whig Government was not so popular it had betn, he did not hesitate to avow himself as out-and-out a Whig. As to education, he was a supporter of the principles of the Edinburgh manifesto ...

... or for ill, the Whig school is generally averse to coalition. It is too much of oligarchy, almost too much of a family, to endure the introduction of new elements, especially when there is anything to be forgiven or forgot. The Whigs come in and out together ...

... be, that if the Whig, or Lord John Russell's Ministry-, could not always command, even in important cases, a majority of the House of Commons, the Protectionist or Tory Ministry will command a majority still less frequently, as the Whigs, taken separately ...

... themselves powerless to carry any measure against the combined opposition Whigs and Tories, and they know, finally, that however little chance there was of obtaining a reform bill from the Whigs, there is less with the party now in power. It is not wonderful, ...

... is also rumoured that his Excellency will not return to Ireland in the capacity of Viceroy. Official Changes.—The Northern Whig mentions a rumour which has been current in Belfast, and which would appear to rest mainly on a communication received there ...

... of the Whigs. Sir George hoped that the Government, if they proposed to introduce reform bill, would have a clear notion of the evils they intended to reform. In 1832, he said, there were certain plain and unmistakeable anomalies which the Whigs sought ...

... with the rather remarkable criticisms which have been current in Whig circles for some days upon Mr Bright's scheme not going far enough, we look forward with considerable hope to the Whig party taking much more advanced position than they have yet done ...

... measures, an it i s thus the anti-reform spirit shews itself. The more I see of the working of the ten-pound franchise, said Whig friend the other day, the more am I convinced it would be better to have the franchise increased instead of diminished. This ...