... Dawson was not a prominent public man. He was an ardent Churchman, and in politics, at any rate in his younger days, he was a Whig. For some years he represented the parish of Llanasa on the Holywell Board of Guardians, and was also churchwarden. He took ...

... a personal nature. It had been said that he was a turncoat. He was not a turncoat (applause.) His family were Whigs. In those days the Whigs were the constitutional party; now the Conservatives are (applause). Mr Mostyn then de- livered about, half-a-dozen ...

... of victory re as satisfactory as any prospects c an be Mr PENNANT has dodged and bobbed for votes, claimed the support of Whigs, the publicans and others, but we fancy this evening his aspira- tions for Parliamentary honours will be rudely shaken. Are ...

... next coalition Government in 1852. It was made up of Whigs and Tories, and so what- ever blunders it committed or whatever mistakes it made, these may be charged to the Tories quite as well as to the Whigs. But if it be granted that the country was then allowed ...

... associations when he was a Whig baby, he did not know-that he was in the habit of looking upon a dissenter as very much in the same category as a murderer- (iaughter) -and every dissenting S06!1!1 LerfIci However, the Whig baby of a later generation had ...

... may not the prop\?tor of a pine-forest fell his owu tim be: ?—Because DO on is auowed to cut when it is his own ocal. If Whigs and Tories are both rogues, why are they like an equilateral triangle?—Because both sides are equal to the base. What Eastern ...

... and it is even so now when we have his speech before us. When he spoke of the Government as being made up by a coalition of Whigs, Liberals and Radicals, and when Mr RUKES played on the saruo string and while the same tune was being played at the same time ...

... were unable to avert the blow. But whence cime that blow ? Not from an open foe, but from a scheming, eelfish,apparent friend. Whig opposition and even hostility might have been expected,for it can readily be explained but that a Liberal Government should ...

... altogether. It was instituted to pro- tect constituencies at a period when candidates, giving themselves out as Tories or Whigs, could be bribed when elected to take office in any Ministry, without feeling the slightest compunction of conscienae in turning ...

... the by-election at Peterborough, in 1878 the Libera! leaders there in caucus a-.semL'Ld chose a tiadieal candidate, but the Whig FITZWILLIAM went in in spite of them, and won an easy victory. Such may be the re- sult of the party maneuvering at Manchester ...

... of the Dissentients to be accounted for. In the main they will follow Lord HARTING- TON, and that persistent and inflexible Whig will walk into the Tory lobby. But we can scarcely think that the entire body will go with him. Mr T. W. RUSSELL, the able ...

... Commons, of which he was so great an ornament, and by Lord HARTINGTON, himself a sturdy Liberal, and the representative of an old Whig house, and JOHN BRIGHT, who had been for nearly half-a-century the champion of the people's rights, would never propose anything ...