... ensue. He the happy moment—descries the vulnerable point, and then strikes his blow and it falls heavy. His old friends, the Whigs, have been his anvil, | and he seems in a fair way of assimilating them, as a distinct and powerful party in the State. If ...

... too, should be becoming things of the past? As permanent combinations they have been almost obsolete. Whig traditions, indeed, hover abcut a few Whig families ; but the names of Pitt, Fox, and Peel, have no living significance or representation, It isa ...

... The Whigs, as might be expected, are very indignant at the undue proportion of Peeliter, compared with themselves ; nor do they hesitate to express their surprise that Lord John and the Marquis of Lansdowne, who negotiated mat- tersfor the Whigs, should ...

... nothing. Mr O'Connell went and asked Mr Hayter, whom he found standing on some steps, or in a lobby, whether he thought the Whigs would take up Mr Disraeli’s plan of ex- tending the income-tax to Ireland. Mr Hayter thought they would not, and Sir Charles ...

... portion of the working-classes—against the whiggish middle class and the “ Manchester school.” As for his uniting with either the Whig or the Radical section of the reform party, it seems to me a most improbable event. Anattempt was made a few weeks ago, to ...

... treasury (we now have 23,000,000 surplus on hand), and worked good, and only good, and that continually. The other day a leading Whig newspaper gave us an estimate of the amount of iron this country would re- quire merely for the completion of our railways ...

... splendid oration of Lord Palmerston in favour of free-trade principles which in 1841 threw a halo around | the fall of the Whig Administration. Nationar Assoctation.—The Right Hon. Lord Colville, of Calross, and the ‘Town-Council of Sanquhar, have joined ...

... disarm this country. In consequence of the re- monstrances which he and the Peace Society made to Lord Jobn ‘Russell and the Whig Government in 1848, they suc- ceeded in diminishing the fleet to almost nothing; and I believe that the Emperor of Russia would ...

... News. the last volume of Punch, Sealsfield’s Cabin Book, Ida Travels, Whateley’s Logic and Rhetoric, Roebuck’s History of the Whig Ministry, History and Essays, the Household Words, Dickens's Copperfield, and Esmond, are treely offered for the amusement ...

... cause, the array of speakers would of itself be sufficient to insure an overflowing house. Despite the rabid opposition of Whigs and Whiglings, and the ridicule of the Times, we have no doubt but on that occasion Scotsmen will present a powerful demonstration ...

... thus seribes the state of parties and discord seem to be the order of the day among all parties, clans, and cliques. The the Whigs, and the Abolitionists are split up, and writhing from intense commotions ; and now, in order to keep up with the spirit of ...

... , then Solicitor-General. As Lord Fullerton had all along been a firm, consistent, though not a forward sup- porter of the Whig principles, his appointment in common with that of Cranstoun previously, and of Moncreiff subse- quently, did great credit ...