... Sydney Smith's famous tilt at Whig Governments; that the one , referring to 44 all the work being done by a man in a wig; | and it is well known that the great wit levelled his shaft j against 44 that pet animal of all Whig Government?, barrister , of ...

... and condemns alike the ex-Whig leader. Lord Palmerston. his colleague and rival. Lord John Russell, his old enemy and new ally. Mr. Bright. Sir John Ramsden, the Whig candidate for the West Riding, whose return was hailed by Whigs all over the country special ...

... some further adherents from among the old Whig party. \advocating a Reform Bill a little in advance of last, but still widely different front that pro- posed by John Russell, which, it appears, many of the old Whig families dislike as much as the Conservatives ...

... the audacity the Whig ministers in venturing to start inch a strain. In what, j wemust ask,did the Tractarian movement originate ? Whose acts provoked it? Is Lord John Rusaell in this caw entitled to throw the first stone? The Whig Government of 1830 ...

... 1859. It is quite amazing—or rather it would be if we were not used to it—to observe the perverse pertinacity with which the Whig journals labour to misinterpret and misrepresent all the sayings and doings of Conservatives on public occasions. At banquet ...

... majority dwindle to nothing under the influence of exposures which are not, certainly, calculated to exalt the estimation of Whig politicians in the eyes of the public. Whether the Opposition of February 1860 will make as factious an use of its power the ...

... advertisements for wives. Rare times for.the girls. Professor G. L. Craik, of Queen's College, Belfast, writes the Northern Whig to vindicate bis claim to having originated the idea of a parliamentary representation of minorities. Of the suicides in London ...

... George, but he would have borne the disappointment had he not been opposed in another matter —a question of patrouage—which, as Whig, still more acutely wounded his sensitive feelings. An auditorgeneral died, and as might expected from bis name and family ...

... be thought was an objectionable system altogether. It teemed to him to be a remnant of the old Whig party fC#rr in * 0n ernment by means of the great Whig houses. It proceeded on the assumption that every one who held office once had a right to that office ...

... Captain Jervis, has induced that party to put forward a second candidate in order to wrest the borough altogether from the Whigs. Mr. Dodd is spoken of as the candidate. ROCHESTER. This towfl will have an opportunity of returning a Conservative in the ...

... I should have signed itj if the Whigs had brought it, I should have signed it; but it is said this meeting is got up by workiog men only,** and that proves that it is a working man's question (Hear, hear.) The Whigs don*t like it, they do nothing themselves ...

... of Trinity College, has been appointed Provost of Dublin University, in the room of the late Rev. Dr. Sadlieb.—The Northern Whig of the 27th, announces that Mr. W. T. M'Cullagh, the member for Dundalk, has just succeeded in obtaining from government a ...