... PROSPECT FOR THE WHIGS. A letter from a Whsig in London, seems to acknowledge that the Melbourne Ministry is tottering. The writer owns to the following statement of its adherents and its adversaries in the country FOR THE TORIES. FOR TSIE WHIGS. The King. ...

... interesting fragments of local story that the mind can have to dwell upon. It begins with Tories paramount, and ends with Whigs in the ascendant. It begins with a picturesque old capital, inhabited by clever men, not too many to know and watch and talk ...

... merchant, of Milbanlk, for a short time M.P. for Malden, Conservative; Mr J. G. Itebow, of Wivenhoepark, who professes moderate Whig principles; Mr Hamilton, a barrister on the Home Circuit, Conservative; and Mr Havens, a non-practising barrister, of the borough ...

... explained to him that this was not practicable. In the autumn Sir Robert went with Lady Peel and a daughter to Italy, leaving the Whigs in power. During his absence, the death of Earl Spencer compelled the removal of Lord Althorp to the House of Lords. The King ...

... because we were ultimately unsuccessful; but after all that can be said, it will be difficult to show when the power of the Whigs ever made so strong a struggle against the Crown, the Crown being thoroughly in earnest and exerting all' its resources. Upon ...

... ir wisdom and toleration, and he would not be one to lend himself to a i. paltry party movement to oust them in order that a Whig family Is clique might again take possession of the Treasury benches. He Or difl'red from Lord Derby's Government upon many ...

... occasion, and one alone, Pitt, during the first half of a long administration, acted in a manner unworthy of an enlightened Whig. This was in the debate on the Test Act, when he stooped to gratify others by talking, with little heartiness indeed, and ...

... we read this: - The Rockingham Whigs must be esteemed as a revival of that party which had obtained for the country the Revolution. of' 1688, and had established the House of Hanover on the thronii. The virtue of the Whigs had greatly declined under Newcastle; ...

... governing powers, for their own purposes, chose to make them otherwise; at one time they must be made triennial, to fix the Whigs, or serve some dark or party purpose; and at another time they must be made septennial, to fix or annoy the Tories ! All this ...

... an American, Mr Frank Moore, through all the smoke of its own passion (1l). From files of Ameri- can papers of the day, both Whig and Tory, Mr Moore has taken the news that flew from town to town. The value of I these contemporary slips from papers inaccessible ...

... Surprise an elegance, conceive a trope, And pose logicians with a line from Pope. Or young or old, no patriot more alone- Whigs claim him not, and Radicals disown. Ye modern liberal Benthamitic crew, Nought had that Gracchus in top-boots with you! Talk ...

... position in the house. The regular Opposition appears to have been limited to eighty-two. Of these, thirty were the nominees of Whig proprietors, and fifty-two represented the popular party. While there is no very weighty addition made by Mr Massey's new volume ...