... WHIGS AND TORIES. (From the Times.) It is really incomprehensible how a reforming Ministry should, after six years of office, leave to its successors so many useful and necessary things to do, to which no one can reasonably object, and which they themselves ...

... reformers of 1830? Not seventy men in Parliament. They made up the Whig majority. Ifter 1832 they numbered a hundred and fifty, and the political organs of that day exhibited the Whigs petitioning the Radicals for alms, and praying not only for support ...

... which was not a Whig party, it mum sooner or later step into those seats which the Whig party would evacuate. This infallible maxim of British polifics had acquired, bo, extraordinary force by the ciralmstances of the conjuncture. The Whigs had succeeded ...

... A SERIES OF POLITICAL PORTRAITS. (From the second rolume—just published—of Memoirs of the Whig party during my Time, by Holland):— LORD TRURLOW, Lord Thurlow bati — besta --- Loid High Chancellor for fourteen years; and had then and since enjoyed ...

... strength of the Manchester and the Whig parties in the House of Commons. There is so muoh bad blood between them that 1 see little prospeot of their acting harmoniously together even in opposition, much less in office. The Whigs, I aui sorry to say, have no ...

... proceed to accuse the Whigs of not efficiently working out 'the Reform Bill,' and of becoming 'as great jobbers as once the Tories were.' I have often heard the former expression, but 1 confess I do not fully understand its meaning. The Whigs did pass many measures ...

... King; but an intelligent co respondent of the Times is of opinion that the profound difference* in the Whig party, added to the abstraction of Free Soil Whig votes, will render the chances ofGeneral Pierce fairer than ever. The nomination of Mr - Hale, says ...

... to be distributed in the usual way of Whig scramble. Messrs Cobden and Co. are as far as present arrangements go, if possible, to be kept out. The support of this section is calculated on, becruse they hate the Whigs less than they bate Lord Derby—an odd ...

... of surplus than in the Whig years of deficiency. - The difference was brought about in two ways; first, by e the imposition of an income-tax to the amount of more than piece of finance very simple and t rou but which the Whigs had not strength to aceomg ...

... may not be uninstructive to do an equal service for the Whigs, as the principles of that party are enunciated in the last number of the Edinburgh. It is not in the nature of any of the leading Whigs to make a bid until they see clearly what their opponents ...

... North American independence, having passed under whig presidents, and 8 of thoselB years were those of the great Washington's tenure of that office. Strange to say, during these last 10 years, first one whig president, Mr Harrison, died shortly after his ...

... a Peelite Cabinet, there could not the shadow a pretext for his retention of place in a Government composed exclusively of Whigs. The Late Irish Chancery Case.—The case of Handcock v. Delacour, which occupied so much time in the Court of Chancery last ...