... WHIGS AND TOBIES. These unmeaning names have changed their application since they first became party distinctions. OriginaUy, they expressed the friends respectively of the Hanoverian Succession and ofthe Stuarts. It is well known, that the two first ...

... HIE WHIGS A friend of Mr F. Milbank's having applied to a f eveiand Vicar for his vote, the followiug answer was retained, wuich churchmen may think over with profit. My Dear Sir,— l owe you many apologies for aot replying sooner to your note. ?? Could ...

... WHAT IS A WHIG? What is a Whig ? Why ! Who shall say t Tbe creature cbangeth from day today; Never chameleon in queerest mood, Shows so many hues as one of this brood. Profuse in promises, slow in act, Friend of the people (where* the fact ?) Warm ...

... WHIG FOREIGN POLICY. It is one of the disadvantages incidental to our institutions that a foreign policy which should be sufficiently profoutid tc achieve the object desired can scarcely ever be adopted, becausi it would not be understood by the nation ...

... A WHIG BZSEOP. The Marquis of Blandford is very shortly to bring in a Bill on Episcopal and Capillar Estates, the main object of which, ss we understand, is to transfer their manage- ment from their administrators to other bodies, and at the same time ...

... THE GREAT WHIG CONSPIRACY. Our reporter bas informed us tbat he has had the honour of receiving an intimation from Sir W. Hayter, the Whig whip- per-in, that the meetiug of the so-called Liberal members an- nounced to be held this day at Willis's Rooms ...

... ANOTHER WHIG BLUNDER The Standard gives an amusing picture of tbe dilemma in which the Commissioner of the Bristol Bankruptcy Court re- cently found himself when called upon to interpret the Lord Chancellor's Directions to the Registrars as to advertise- ...

... WHIG TYEANNY AT DEVONPOET DOCKYARD. (From the Civil Service Gazette.) We would not for a moment imply that the Government as I a body, or the members of it individually, or high function- aries acting under its authority, are habitually guilty of tyran- ...

... WHIG-EADICAL JOBBEEY AND COEEUPTION. Notwithstanding the obstacles which the Whig-Eadical Government endeavoured to throw in the way of a Parliamentary discussion of the flagrant scandals affecting the character of the Lord Chancellor ; notwithstanding ...

... A WHIG DUKE ON THE LABOUR aUESTION. The Duke of Somerset was present at an agricultural gathering at Warminster on Friday night, and in respond- ing to a toast said — The agriculturist who did not under- stand the soil and climate in which he carried ...

... HOW THE PURE WHIGS MANUFACTURE VOTES. We are indebted to the Revising Barrister's Court, at Tot- nes, for an insight into tbe mode in which the Duke of Somer- set manufactures votes for that borough. It is a matter of notoriety that bis Grace hss always ...

... HOW TUE WHIGS CASHED THE ftEFOBKBIU. Mr. Roebuck, in his recent work, thusdescribes, on thein- formation of Lord Brougham, the unconstitutional way in wbich the dissolution of Parliament, iv 1831, was forced upon William IV., b/ the Grey Cabinet :— «* ...