... ancestors-but what ckh Va. ancestors? It was the wisdom of our Whig far ion, ancestors, and not of the Tories! It was a 0cc Aths saying of the late Henry Drummond that the yea rms Whigs always took credit for ,ood harvests, os but even he had no idea ...

... THE MINISTRY. of A uRunn Whig Ministry is now announced 's a last re-the source-a Ministry of sufferance once more. Is this the pIS strong Ministry that was wanted? A Ministry to the carry on the war, with a minority in the House, and drc part of that ...

... illustration in the case of a Liberal us Duke's nomination county, in the Municipal Bill had a of nearly unique application in a Whig Earl's burgh. Through a id some unfortunate inadvertence, however,-some slip of the a ad Legislative pen,-the new Scotch Reform ...

... exceptions, the men are fe ;o all of the old stamp, and in many cases the self-same tc a people. The number of scions of noble Whig fr we houses is greater than the number of special candidates tl a called forth by the prospective influence of the popular ...

... opi- nion,'among the landed proprietors in Aberdeenshire. We rather think they do, and as in most county elections Whig acrok.are Whig votes, and Tory acres Tory votes, there can be little doubt as to the issue of the coming contests If we are te regard ...

... Fenian outrages, which began under the Whig Ministry, and which they' did nothing to repress. The Ireland of to-day is not of half so agitated with political passion as the Ireland l of '44 and '48; and had the Whigs been in power, the d- Church would have ...

... places a, Conservative: laml comes forward as a candidate against four Whigs, the Con- than servative party contest with the Whig eleven seats, all of which'I of tie were held by Whigs in the last Parliament; and there are five Scats whic ,are contested ...

... Church, and the Ire- land of to-day, when the whole Whig benches are shout- ing against the injustice, to which they were formerly so conveniently blind, lies in this Fenianism, and the I fact that the Whigs occupy the Opposition benches. What although Lord ...

... and his assumptions and b e allegations, which go any length, were they worth much,S Iwould be as fatal to the hopes of the Whigs as they a: e would be confirmatory of the fears of the Tories. a They point to objects equally repulsive to both, P s but to ...

... the Liberals, but especially of the Whigs. It was a noble thing on t the part of Burke and Fitzwtlliam, and the other t seceder from Fox, that not all their horror of Francs could make them untrue, to Ireland. The Whig party after the schism remained for ...

... Conserva- tives. The former are hampered by the Whigs; the latter are, and are likely to remain, a minority in Prrliament. Assuredly, there is more affinity between .WThigs and Conservatives than between Whigs and Radicals. If the Con- servatives are Wise ...

... the harness proving too heavy before its close. What then ? Scores of candidates offer them- selves to the electors, not as Whigs, not as adherents 1 of Earl Russell or Mr Gladstone, or as holding the o opinions of either the one or the other, but as sup- ...