... other eveuiug there were above a Liberal M. P.'s present, amongst them Sir William Harcourt. There was also fair sprinkling Whig peers, amongst them the Duke of Argyll, who has bad many a fierce and angry tussle with his host over the Afghan business. ...

... virtue exposed to temptation. There, for instance, are ourselves, well known as base Whig organ—yet, derogation our own importance, we must acknow- that neither Whig nor anybody eke ever tempted with bribe or intimidation, or conferred upon us anything ...

... lasted with hardly a break from the middle of December. ! THE EDINBURGH REVIEW WHIG PRINCIPLES. Attention has been attracted to the article in the Edinburgh Review on Plain Whig Principles, which is an expesitiou of the position of Moderate Liberals in view ...

... and if they wero not quite neglected in the distribution of the minor patronage. Great Whigs smiled at the notion of a large infusion of new blood, and little Whigs asked, with supercilious complacency, where was the proof that new blood was coming forward ...

... is here implied to Lord Clarendon should thought a compliment rather than otherwise. CFrom the Spectator.) On the whole, the Whig houses conclude that thoir path is with the people, and the refusals, if rumour speaks truth, have been very frank and decisive ...

... the approaching Presidential election in the United States, that there will bo two national conventions—tho one to nominate Whig, and the other a democrat There may be some other conventions, and ultra-southern men may nominated a slavery ticket, and ...

... saying to us, And hi, boys ! whatever you do, for God's sake don't play with your Conservatives near the first Whig hole, the snuggest Whig bole in all Scotland I (Loud and continued laughter and cheering.) ...

... Liberal-Conservatives and Conservative-Liberals or Whigs, was impossible. Such • combination will probably remain impossible as long as Mr Gladstone, commanding as he does the allegiance alike of Whigs and advanced Liberals, oontinues to hold power. He ...

... the otherwise extraordinary and unaccountable contradictious that are found in Whig statesmen. They are at once rigid and lax, liberal and illiberal. The weakness of the Whigs is never so thoroughly exposed as when they are power; for when was Whiggism ...

... what, but to keep themselves office ? This political infamy cannot be matched. As for the modern Whig courting alliances, which were unknown to the old Whig, we maintain that these alliances are the very same, with the necessary modifications which Time ...

... The theory is so absurd that it will not bear a moment's examination and we wonder greatly that it should be advanced by any Whig or Tory statesman—since if were honestly and thoroughly carried out—and if electors were to vote accord to the sentiments and ...

... rents they could bear without breaking ? I would ask him what have the Whig landlords done, but to extract the largest rents they can get from their tenants as well ? Do the Whig landlords give their land at cheaper rate per acre than the landlords ? ...