... not, who s are old Tories in heart still; and old Whigs who believe r that the word Whig has some permanent signification, like Roman Catholic or Presbyterian. But such Tories are.few, and such Whigs are few; and any contest be- t tween them must refer ...

... electoral roll a certain limited number of n now electors bound to support the Whigs in return for Bi having got the franchise through the manceuvres and exer- p tions of a Whig Government. a The Spectafor says that the Peers would have improved n the Reform ...

... Liberal. Tothatextentthe .Minlistry gains by this exchange. In Orkney, again, the Whig- Radical Mr Anderson is sucoeeded by theV Whig Mir Dundas, giving a gain so far to the Whig party. . Bat against this is to be set the substitution of the independent MIr ...

... nevertheless, the leader of that great and powerful party con- trived to effect more than could be even attempted by the Whigs, who were supposed to be the more liberal and more progressive party. Sir Robert Peel, during his celebrated tenure of office ...

... PARLIAMEINTARY NOTES, THE DISTURBANCE'BILL. LI I believe it wvill be found that more than one of the .great Whig peers will separate themselves from the Government wvhen the Compensation for Disturbance Bill comes before the House of Lords. The fate of ...

... Give you symp showers of guano if yogu like !', belie, No wonder. that the bait. *took;: 52 Whigs are were returned ' and: only'l eight 'Tories. The P ia Whig Government owed half- their- strong can a majority to Scotland. Surely they might have longs ...

... 5 laughter, in place of cippltuse. ,Mr Fox might carry 's some dignity with him when he rose and left the b House with his Whig followers in his rear, as a testi- v n mony against the Ministry of the day. But what of v 3, Earl Russell's attempt to imitate ...

... up very much of rival Liberal candidates, and candidates l experimenting upon the new constituencies. la- dical is fighting Whig, and the extreme man at- - tempting to shove out the moderate, What are we to infer from such a state of things but divi- sions ...

... Government is essentially Whig, while the country is as essentially Democratic, t Y and the great cause of the rain of the party is the pro- i r- gress of free trade opinions. The greatest principle of I . cohesion among the Whigs was the principle of protec- ...

... snethol will Lerd Lho,-e get ever the fact that Isis fabher Ahd hr, 'tboa Fe- present the great Whig house ef Argyll, which was Whig in the brave old days when Whig meant Radical, are cordial and even violent supporters of the party now installed in power ...

... iled consfield than to go down to posterity, not only as the' E t so statesman who dished the Whigs by his Reform Bill, di iu0- but who has compelled the Whigs to extinguish them- fi me- selves'by making a common cause with the Conser- a' the vatives. The ...

... the approach of et the Whig Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Radical ir ;, Tribune ; and Lord Palmerston had no sooner dis- T d appeared from the scene, than the necessity of Mr Bright's support to the very existence of the Whig - party made the union ...