... WHIGS OR CONSERVATIVES? The part played by the Whigs in the administration of affairs, from the formation of the Coalition Cabinet in December. 1852, to the fall of the Palmers ton Administration February, 1858, is altogether inglorious. They attempted ...

... WHIG EXTRAVAGANCE. If the Whigs are occasionally, in some exceptional trifle, penny-wise, their general rule is to be poundfoolish. The country has heard with extreme disgust of the immense allowance which, the face of the grinding taxation by which all ...

... HE WHIG! ND THE PRESS. ‘From the Union.) We should have been very well content to allow the case of the British Star to rest upon its own merits, but the animated debate in the House of Commons last Friday, invites a second reference, while the defence ...

... willing enough to strike his friends, but he is still more eager to smite his foes, Without Whig aid, the Tory Gocernment was in any case doomed and the Whigs ere too helpless to assist any lame dog of a Prime Minister over the stile. It is quite idle ...

... THE WHIGS AND THE GOVERNMENT, Mr. Ellice, M.P. for the St. Andre v’s Burghs, addressing his constituents at Cupar, looked the national defence ques'iou straight in the face. The old line bigs seem anxious to follow the lead of Lord Russell in this inatter ...

... WHIG APPOINTMENTS. Mr. W. R. Greg moved unwillingly from the Board of toms to the Comptrollership of Stationery. Colonel Romilly, made Commissioner of Customs, being a Special Commissioner Income Tax, which office he had once thrown up, not thinking it ...

... THE 03 SIiY WHIGS . . . DAELIXGTOX , Mondaynight . —Viscount Caatlereagh , M . P ., speaking' at a ConserratiTa demonstration here to-night , said the policy of tha present Government was a series of blund&rs and class legislation . Ityas not he ...

... A WHIG BAIT. (From the Globe.) To the Government we hold the same language to the Irish Liberals. We believe that this recess gives a trial and breatbing-time to both parties,—and to both, we fairly say, under very sore temptations. We will not press ...

... THE WHIG BUDGET. The windfall” resolves itself into increased taxation upon some one. Mr. Lowe cannot get £4,000,000 without making some one pay up, and notwithstanding his apparent generosity in taking penny in the pound oil the income tax will, in effect ...

... men. Where is the u = | London to legisiate’ We | can Go that just » os wel ing OUF lb eat!” f Mary WHIG TACTICS having FREE TRADE “COOKING” THE GOVER? with STATISTICAL RETURNS. esmen, (From the Standard. } We confess ourselves unwilling to imitate our ...

... THE WHIGS OPPOSITION. [from the times.] Symptoms are not wanting that transformation which | usually comes over the Whigs in opposition, and changes them from the most unimpressionable and obstructive Ministries into the Host sympathetic and liberal ...

... WHIGS AND TORIES. On referring to Rapin's Ilistory of the Whig and Tory. written in 1716, we learn that these two parties were formed in the reign of Charles 1. The king's friends were called Cavaliers, which name was afterwards changed into that of ...