... Smyth, was honourably returned by tbe votes of both par- ties, the second Conservative, Mr. Sanderson, was defeated by the Whig and Free-trader, Mr. Hardcastie,— the latter polling 59. votes, the former only 531. Now, ou a single-handed con- test, we ...

... resign his high office into the Queeu's hands. In the present House of Commons there are four distinct parties— First, the Whigs proper, or Ministerialists, numbering abont 260; secondly, the Peel section, numbering about 90; thirdly, the Cobden and Hume ...

... we do not wonder at the issue. Happily, however, for the country there is reason to believe that we shall not have another Whig Budget for many years to come. The signs of decay become more and more obvious to the care- ful observer of the movements of ...

... chance to exhume. And although we fear we are not likely to row much in tbe same political boat with Lord John, we know no Whig or Tory denizen of the club- house at Cowes in whose yacht we would more gladly accept an offered berth. r ...

... writ de lunatico inquireiido is pending, who expects this to be the cose ? I can easily account for the sensitiveness of our Whig- Radicals upon the subject of their sombre friend — Oh, no ! Uiey never mention him ; ~ His name is never heard; for if ...

... of tort and scandal from £5 to i'2o, was carried' by a majority of 144 to 07— more thau two to oue against Ministers. The Whigs in office are being taught a lesson they will do well not to slight, lt is this— that if they are content to hold place on ...

... Committee have been disputing about a mere matter of etiquette with the Lord President of the Council ! lam neither free-trader nor Whig, and I deem lhe withdrawal of protection from native industry a terrible infliction upon my country; but to put protection ...

... as compared with other classes. Twenty years ago he was a merchant, and at that time in his folly and simplicity was also a Whig and a Free-trader- (laughter)— and the four votes which he possessed, viz., at Deptford, iv Kent, iv Devon- shire, and in Essex ...

... events, au election would not yet come upou them, it might do so prematurely, aud then they must elect tlieir members, not as Whigs or Tories or Conservatives, for after all they were a mongrel race —(laughter)— but as strict and unflinching Protectionists ...

... would hear no more of the Stamp Act. There was a certaiu indulgence which was always to be exhi- bited towards the finance of a Whig Ministry* (A laugh.) The Government could not be expected to excel in every branch. The foreign policy ofthe Government, by ...

... report, and ventures very confidently to assure its readers that there is as much chance of Sir Robert Peel displacing the Whig Cabinet just now as of his becoming Emperor of Hayti, or Great Llama of Thibet. The Morning Herald, not satisfied with this ...

... were met to give their support to Mr. Cayley, who at all events had not forgotten his promise, and who, though a consistent Whig, had always sacrificed his political views to support the agricul- tural interest; he had in this instance come from out his ...