... THE DANGER OF WHIG LEGISLATION In tbe recent disreputable attempt of the Government to deprive the operatives of that measure of justice for which they struggled so long and have borne so much, we have a most unfortunate, if not a dangerous illustration ...

... WHIG PURITY OF ELECTION. To the Editor of the Blackburn Standard. Sir, — There are strange rumours afloat respecting the elections on Saturday last, which, if true, reflect anything but credit on the Liberal brawlers in Blackburn, whose constant cry ...

... MAYNOOTH— THE TIME-SERVING WHIGS. An instructive illustration was afforded in the House of Commons on Friday, of what the country has lost by the dethronement of a Liberal government. If Lord John and his allies were ever eminent for anything, it ...

... FRAUD UNDER WHIG PROTECTION Notwitlistanding their occasionally professed deference to public opinion, there are two things which the Wlu_. Radical Government, and lbe Liberal majority at their command, are resolved shall be somehow maintained to the ...

... ♦ GREEK HONESTY AND WHIG VALOUR. The promised terminaiion to the Grecian squabble affords us another admirable illustration of the rash imbecility which has so long characterised the proceedings of our present Government on almost every foreign question ...

... world that the Whigs 'do not want Mr. Gladstone to succeed at Oxiord : they had rather see him fail'— a piece of imperti- nence which was judiciously reserved till after Sir Charles Wood, Sir David Dundas, Mr. Bethel], and dozens of Whigs beside, had given ...

... inapplicability to auy time or purpose. Since then what single circumstance has followed to im- prove or alter tbe Whig Radical position, or Whig-Radical capacity ? The Duke brings back tlie Cabinet to place and pay, aud the first subsequent announcement is ...

... exact relative proportions. The following, however, is a tolerably dose approxina- tion:— Pedites 40 Whigs ofthe Liberal School 86 Conservative Whigs 14 Radicals 180 Peace-at-any-Price Men 24 Non-deßcripte 18 Total 862 There is no principle of cohesion ...

... increase) of .£42,612. But there is an increase on the total of the quarter amounting to £371,123—exclaim the Whig-Radicals. So the Whig return declares. Bow it has been made up tbe makers alone know. We should be sorry to hazard a guess It is clear ...

... of the Whig party. The Whig element was already sufficiently strong in the Ministry, withont the infusion of new blood *■ but it appears that a so-called liberal Administration cannot be formed without carefully providing for all the old Whig family ...

... announced till next day, and then not officially, because, as it appears, of an impression lhat by some thoroughly disengenuous and Whig manoeuvre the hour of doom might be tided over,— aud the rest of the Session got through somehow. That scheme, however, failed ...

... barrister, a gentleman of local influence, and connected with one of the Leicester bankers, who appears in the field in the Whig interest The Mayor of I_cester, Mr J. Biggs (brother to Mr. W. Biggs, MP. for Newport), w also announced as a candidate, Mr ...