... the future. The present moment seems to himadmirably adapted for such au investi- gation. The old-fashioned distinction of whigs and tories, which did very well to distinguish the parties who shuffled the cards and played for that greatest of all stakes ...

... Lord John Russell's speech at Perth sbeing taken for the text, an angry, but somewhat pointless, v lecture is addressed to the Whig party, who, strangely . enough, are taunted with inconsistency by a writer who l, warmly supports the present Government. The ...

... better to turn to the political side of his career. In 1834 the Whig party was obviously on the de- cline. The Reform Bill had been carried by a set of I men who were called the leading Whig statesmen, supported by an almost revolutionary outbreak. But ...

... Ministry, so that a careful and complete revision of the whole work has been rendered necessary. The old staple, simple terms of Whig, Tory, Liberal, and Conservative, no longer suffice to represent the diver- sified shades of political opinion which ...

... on the eve of *, giat revolution-not one of Swing fires and Bristol riots, with the democracy lashed into fury by the great Whig leaders, but one that will be no lessa voiderfiil in its course and in its fruits. The old order of things has Dassed away; ...

... en the eve of a great revolution.-not one of Swing fires and Bristol riots, with the democracy lashed into faryby the great Whig leaders, but one that will be no less wonderful in its course and in its fruits., The old. order of things has passed, away; ...

... friends- so beloved by his own family. In the allusions to politics we find, no doubt, the peculiar views of the old family Whig, but expressed with a candour, a re- ispeet for the differing views of others, an unobtru- sve and unpretending sincerity, ...

... issued daily from the press. The class of society with which Moore was most intimately associated was that of the aristocratic whigs. In his letters and journals, therefore, we catch the reflex of their tone, less impassioned, less stormy than that of the ...

... grisly beard flared like ameteor of wrath and fear over the west of Scotland. He was, Scott says, still more detested by the whigs than Claverhouse himself ; said many anecdotes are Iextant to corroborate the truth of this statement. Once he rshot acounaryman ...

... and ?? grisly beard fdared like a meteor of wrath and gea over the Rest of Scotland. He was, Scott says, stil mere ?? by the whigs than Claerhouse himself; and many anecdotes are extant to eorroborate the truth Of this statement. Once he shot a coisaitryman ...

... Webster's feelings about the Baltimore Whig nomination for President. His opinions of Pierce is now curious: And here the-writer would record what he deemas the effect, upon Mr. Webster, of the Baltimore whig nomina- tion for President. HIe was, indeed ...

... a modern Tory re- sembles a Wlhig of Queen Anne's reign, and a Tory of Queen .unne's reign a modern Whig-reminds the representative of any great Whig family, that while he imagiones lne is treading in the footsteps of his forefathers, he is in reality ...