... SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF DESTITUTE WHIGS. The first meeting of tho Society for Providing for tho Wants of Destitute Whig?, was held at Cambridge Houso on Sunday last the Earl of Sh-ft -sb-ry iv the chair. The proceedings were opened with prayei, after ...

... THE MILITARY ADMINISTRATION OF THE WHIGS. TO TIIK EDITOR OP THE STANDARD. Siß,—On the retirement of Mr. Disraeli and his party tho Liberals succeeded to office, pledged to ec jnomy in all the departments of the State. At the head of the War Office Mr ...

... PURITY OF Till': WHIG-RADICALS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD Sin, -When tho Whig-Radicals affect in their speeches so much horror of bribery, it is well that tho country should know something of the wholesale corruption carried on in boroughs represented ...

... THE LAST TOR Lord has deserved well of his country and of the Whigs. No one grudges him the honours that have fallen to his share; and when it became known that our gracious had, in the exercise of her undoubted right, extended the peerage of Henry Brovenuam ...

... and that wae to revive an old family title. We have reckoned no promotions in the pecrage, thongh the excess of those on the Whig side appears still greater on a cursory inspection. But we have reckoned the two peerages obtained hy “ plain John Campbell ...

... ARE THE WHIGS ALWAJB HONEST 7 TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — I beg to call your attention to the fact, that ?? night the Honourable ?? E. P. Bouverie (Kilmarnock), having paired in favour of tbe ballot, also voted in the division which took place, thereby sotting ...

... we are asked to believe, cannot the Whigs find some work for him at homo ? They are not so rich in nun of mercantile lore that they cm afford the loss of even one. The science of arithmetic is not a branch of Whig education. Their Homeric studies leave ...

... THE LAST WHIG APPOINTMBKT. THE EDITOR. Sir, —When you noticed the 11 Vaughan to a police magistracy, you l»i doubt, forgotten that the learned gentlemK foe what reason no one on earth could deterouaf, e l»inted by the government to a comndsaioa •* » inquiry ...

... ACCEPT NO REFORM FROM THE WHIGS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD. Inthe first place, because their Reform Act of 1831 was a party measure, framed by party men, and has proved to be, as such measures always are, a complete failure. Because it was carried ...

... PROPORTION OF WHIG AND TORY PEERAGES. The charge which has been made against the Con- sorvativo governments of making an undne pro- portion of peers admits of a very decisive answer. Mr. Disraeli, Lord Derby, and Sir Robert Poel hold power altogether ...

... the circumstance of a Whig \| brat Conservative Lord Chancellor to the ?? iry af presentations. If Lord Chelmsford had nominated a ...

... A CRY FROM AN OLD WHIG* TO THB EDITOR. Sir, — You were kind enough in the spring of last year to give insertion to some complaints of mine relative to the chances wo old Whigs have ot keeping in office. Thank goodness, we havo got over the bother and ...