... POETRY. THE HOPES OF THE SESSION ABE ALL FLED AWAY.—A WHIG LAMENT. AIR— The Flowers of the Forest. I've seen Pam laughing, the Derbyites chaffing, The Derbyites chaffing so jaunty and gay; Now the Whig Tapers low burn at Broadlands and Woburn The Hopes ...

... Ministers has aetU-Kf rendered their position unassailable.— Morning Herald. THE WHIGS AND PATRONAGE. Why is there always an outcry throughout the sountrf for the Whigs, which the Tories cannot command 1 WhY, if you talk to your fellow-traveller by rail ...

... Disraeli's definition of Toryism, as contrasted with Whig deeds and principles, pub- lished by him in 1835, entitled a Vindication of the British Constitution, is well worthy of perusal. He says— The Whig party has ever been odious to the Eng- lish people ...

... was oligarchy. This Whig system of exclusion ended in their isolation—they found that they had excluded them- selves from the vital force and sympathy of the country. But the third and deep-seated reason of the decadence of the Whigs is the senility of ...

... to bring Lord Palmerston and Lord J. Russell into amity, the chief basis of which alliance would be the existence of a new Whig Premier, when a new Govern- ment comes into power, and who has not been Premier before. ...

... holders is a complete Whig principle; they have in- variably declaimed against a plurality of votes, of which this is an instance. It is amusing to contemplate the characters delineated in the Reform debate, and should the Whigs be recalled to power, ...

... of such coarse etementsthtt the Whig oligarchy re- taiiin its rule. By means of some rotten borosgha (like Peterborough, Calne, and such places), and by the terri- torial influence of some overgrown proprietary, Ibe Whig- can muster of their own faction ...

... language, various reasoning, and vast reading. His absence from the House of Commons leaves a blank in the Whig party. Where now is there a single Whig of any genius in Parliament ? It is with pride that the Con- servatives can point to the rare endowments ...

... wisdom of Parliament was shaken, and, to complete the disgrace of the Whigs, the finances constantly declined under their inefficient control. While the Liberals, com- posed of Whigs and Radicals, Dissenters and Papists, Repealers and Brass Bands, were ...

... t Liberals are as likely to *We With the Whigs, as the Liberal party as a ««rv *11 with anything of the kind from the Con- On the question of Reform, too, the senti- lie thlJ of the Independents and the Whigs are wide sides e asunder, though we hear ...

... a Canonry of Canterbury before the fall of the last Whig Ministry, and who, the threefold fact of having lost that and the Chaplain, °J'~ House of Commons, and having married into f of the great Whig families, has superior claims to aof if 'L? ^ard-working ...

... honey.f Him, too, thy partner of the war, I'll sing, our .ecoud naval star,J Duadas, the dread of BrUin; Sing how Whig wisdom seatis Whig valour Against the laud of hides and taller, To threaten no light ruiu. Two barbarous seas shall own our powers ...