... its character, but not for the belter. The Liberal tendencies of the present Cabinet, so far it has any, are not derived from Whig sources, and it still remains questionable whether they will be able to overbear the rest-and-be-thankful policy which is ...

... MARKABLE ELECTION CONTEST SIXTY YEARS A The contest for Canterba ry was of a very ordwi and the Hon. R. Wateon, the Whig members, were supposed to be certain of their re-election, and no contest was ex Suddenly there ap) an address, from the Rose Inn ...

... last to a a new point of cleavage between parties in the State—a point which Mr Gladstone must bring himself to abandon the Whigs in order to retain the Radicals and gain over the Irish. There are some who take a more hopeful view, and who believe that ...

... IRELAND. Dearth Fodder Ireland. —The Northern Whig says : For the Inst twenty years fodder has not brought such enormous prices it at present brings in every Irish market. We know a gentleman, living in the county ftf Down, who, one day last week, obtained ...

... affability. The latter will become a lion in West End drawing-rooms. By-andbye, will possibly develop into a very mild kind Whig. His talents will secure him a place in the Cabinet, and with the remembrance of Disraeli's juvenile democracy before us, is ...

... ‘‘live and let live.” | Old Whigs and young Radicals were alike irreconcileable, and seemed to think they could not act in common. In our own day Mr Gladstone has succeeded fairly well in holding his party together. Whigs and Radicals have agreed to serve ...

... in him the»lements of a sneak; and h» wants nothing but time to ripen him into a pickpocket, swindler, a horse-dealer, or a Whig ite.-nrin.—Fraser's Magazine. ...

... Denholm Free Church, in which he took a great interest. In politics he inherited trom his father a great admiration for the old Whig principles, although he never took a very active public part, he was always a staunch supporter of the Liberal party. His pleasant ...

... moors and the lochs. The fact which has yot to be faced by the majority of the con- stituencies is, that their representatives— Whig aud Tory—are not their representatives so much as they are gentlemen very glad to be members of the finest club in the world ...

... private meeting of Mr Plimsoll’s supporters on Tuesday night, and although the Radical section of them demurred to have a second Whig representative, the majority of those present decided to recommend the resignation of Mr Plimsoll at a public meeting, to be ...

... to bs a complete and final settlement of tbe question, but because it bas dealt a fatal blow to that pernicious and absurd Whig doctrine that man's fitness for the franchise is to be measured by tbe amount of rent he pays for bis dwelling-house(applause)—and ...

... principle, power and not policy, were the motives that actuated them both. The Whigs opposed the Reform Bill of the Conservatives, and the Con-1 servatives in turn opposed that of the Whigs ; and the people, disgusted with the shams and shufflings of both, despaired ...