... parliamentary or financial reform. At that time the most liberal whigs were far more conservative than any member of the present government; but a new party arose the Commons, and made the whigs radicals, and, to all appearance, the conservatives, influenced ...

... THE PEELITES AND WHIGS. The Parliamentary proceedings of the last few months —and especially of the last fortnight—show that at present there is a complete break up between the Peelites and Whigs. The conduct of Mr Gladstone in the House of Commons, in ...

... THE WHIG BUDGET AND CONSERVATIVE POLICY. Tm resignation of the Whig Ministry has completely taken the country by surprise, and unexpected was the event that the leaders of the great Conservative party were at the time busily engaged marking out their ...

... THE WHIG LAMENT. Air, —Exile of Erin. L /Performed with great applause at the Assembly Rooms, Leith, Monday, Dee. 20. There lectured in Leith a sage Whig politician, His sconce, wise and learned, sad visions did fill— As sadly he wailed o'er bis fallen ...

... formal and suppositi- r tious lines of Whig circumvallation on such a question, I was a sad encroachment on the domain of a party 1 which wished to be supposed the incarnation of the popular cause. But while the Whigs were labourimig I to nakie their cause ...

... generation of Whigs by sv their Radical allies has been that Reform was with them td a political stalking-horse for deluding the simple; as Even now we hear household suffrage talked of by or- thodox Whigs as an extreme measure, which the Whigs vi would ...

... the party exigencies of the mo- was mont. Chs Earl Granville~usad to be a Whig, and the Duke of dien 3cc- Argyle was a Seotels Whig by nature and tradtoRet- the Arc they Whigs still, or -what? Arc they not pre- porn olie pared to take up vote by ballot ...

... The Whig Plot There is now no doubt. says the Leaden osivrepon• dent of the N.B. that the defeat of the Government wee brought about he a carefully laid itt of the malcontent IMP, even Sir William vomit is included in the cabal. r Gladstone promised to ...

... THE WHIG PARTY. It is curious that while we have difficulty in finding people who are content lb@ called Tories, there are rery few politicians among who either designate themselves or are accustomed to be designated Whigs. The more interesting therefore ...

... THE TOMES AND WHIGS._ The Daily News has made an extraordinary statement to the effect that the Government, in view of the result of the elections, have abandoned all intention of attempting to conc.l ate the Parnellites. An effort will now, says the ...

... THE LAST OF THE WHIGS Lord Granville has been seriously unwell and at his age the worst might have been expected. But I am glad to say it is not time yet write his obituary, and the press which was in such indecent haste to dispose of Sir Joseph B;szalgette ...

... WHERE ARE THE WHIGS? ,1 -_ r( 1Te two old parties in the State have disappeared. a: There is neither Whig nor Tory. The political cur- rent has been too strong for both. They either have tc gone down and vanished, or have been carried onward hi to new ...