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THE SESSION

... - national and partisan -has been thrown away; because they to whom it was vouch- safed were incapable of grasping it. The Whigs, with their surplus revenue, have totally failed to recover their place in the waning confidence of the pablic, by applying ...

ELECTION PETITIONS

... falling on an individual, has hitherto pre- vented the prosecution of many a plaint, and caused a compromise of seats between Whig and Tory to hush up corruption, will help to expose bribery and unseat mem- bers who have bought their votes. It has been said ...

PRESTON QUARTER SESSIONS

... APPEAL CASES. BAIBER V. J. QGEMAN, ESQ., AND OTrEaS, MAGISTRATES OF PRESTON. Mr. Segar appeared for the appellant, and Mr. Whig- ham for the respondents. The appeal was for a reversal of the decision of the magistrates at the last general licensing sessions ...

WIGAN

... scope to the Wigan Tory press, last week, to wind their horns and ring&*e changes on the clandestine pro- ceedings of the Whigs, as if the party whom they serve were entirely free from blame in this business. We be- lieve that the question of the necessity ...

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, THURSDAY LAST

... between Lord John Russell and Lord Palmerston is a matter of common conversation, and the union of his name with all the leading Whig statesmen at the speaker's dinner was, perhaps, only the forerunner of its union at another table. The report is that his lordship ...

THE CRIMEAN INQUIRY

... re- quiring to be left to itself to eliminate all the dangerous gases, and become flat, stale, unprofitable, and safe. As a whig, be, when beating about for expedients, naturally thought of a commission, and, as a passed secretary at war of some half century's ...

REVIVAL OF THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE

... either the whigs or the conservatives, I have s seen that the whole of the difficulties of the House of n Commons-that is the whole of the difficulties, in addition i- to the difficulty we all know to exist in the inherent weak- it ness of the whig party, ...

THE BERKELEY PEERAGE CASE

... to be acknow- ledged a baron by tenure. The claim was not, as we have said, adjudicated upon ; his political services to the Whig party obtaining for him at the coronation of Wil- liam the 4th, a peerage by the title of Lord Segrave, and he was subsequently ...

THE STATE OF PARTIES DURING THE PAST SESSION

... Russell and his colleagues, but can never hope to displace them. They know well that there is somethingworse behind even than a Whig minister, and so they yield a reluctant obedience to a power they ab- hor. We rest the argument simply upon a fact and a p ...

THE PAST SESSION

... forty-shilling franchise, and even the ballot h itself, seem to stand a better chance with the Tories than they did with the Whigs. Administrative reform has ti advanced in many minor but important particulars, and II there really seems to be no room for ...

COUNTY COURT.—TUESDAY LAST

... would strengthen the Liberals. If the franchise should be extended to a £5 rental, instead of rating, it would secure to the Whigs a considerable increase of voters in the township of Clitheroe. At Low Moor there are 250 cottages, 210 of which are rented ...

RECORDS OF SMUGGLING

... that Mr. Bright had joined a Liberal Ministry would have caused great excitement. The Radicals would have been delighted, the Whigs angry, and the Con- servatives frightened. But now no one much cares any way. The truth has been whispered that Mr. Bright ...