... give his name, like a man, instead of seeking to shoot his sbafts from behind the shield of another 1 The letter of a Weary Whig, will appear in next publication ...

... On Monday last the Hon. E. K. Littleton, a whig, returned without opposition as M.P. for South Staffordsh^ in the room of Gen. Anson, resigned. Newport, Friday, August 19, 1853.. Printed and Published for the Proprietor, EDViy DOWLING, of Mount Pleasant ...

... has occurred, and there are already two candidates in the field, Mr. W. G. Cavendish, the son of the present member, in the whig interest, and Capt. C. J. B. Hamil- ton, who was formerly member of the borough of Ayles- Vury> in the conservative cause. ...

... trifling and temporary expediencies of mere party. Doubtless, there is enough to find fault with at all times, with Whig measures and Whig mi- nisters. The measures are often deficient in breadtfrof principle, and consistency of detail; and the men are ...

... creed in one respecr. He prophesred that rents and farmers' profits would decline for a period. But what of that 1 Did not ihe Whigs go farther? i )id ificy not actually in,ert a recognition of agricultural distress in the Queen's Speech ? And did not Lord ...

... after-dinner joke, So merrily we rule the land- For novelty is full of charms- As long as we can make a stand We fear not all the Whigs in arms. We feel our right to take our turn At government, like other folk; ,J?.r'eve at failure we would spurn Punch ■'•*8 ...

... gave weight and a certain sort of dignity to hM dMcouMe. As an administrator he shone trterwards without a rivat among his Whig associates, and seemed by his ability destined soon to lead his friends amid the stormy conflicts of party warfare. The result ...

... surprising to intelligent politicians; for tb^ 1 who have been accustomed to hold him up as & J of the most liberal of the whigs, have been eg** giously deluding themselves. Attached, for roA years,to Tory ministers, but preferring the liberJ conservatism ...

... attempt of the Whigs. We look on this point to be so certain'y gained that we do not even ask for explanations. But we much want to have them on another point-do the Peelites comprehend electoral reform in the same manner as the Whigs, and the Whigs as the Radicals ...

... government, and never uttered the audacious thought of seeing the rod of empire out of the hands of one or other of the great Whig or Tory families of the State. They, it waR thought, were fated to be our hereditary governors, and no man educated themselves ...

... could stand. What have the late rulers of the country done to regain the prestige they have lost ? Very lately in the lit- tle Whig city of Peterborough, hitherto a family borough of Earl Fitzwilliam's, and spared, in Schedule A, We find the ex-official, ...

... another trial, with the prestige of having become a necessity. We regard the experiment which was made of a junction between the Whigs and the followers of Sir Robert Peel, as having been justified not only by the peculiarities of the period, but by the degree ...