... POETRY. THE HOPES OF THE SESSION ABE ALL FLED AWAY.—A WHIG LAMENT. AIR— The Flowers of the Forest. I've seen Pam laughing, the Derbyites chaffing, The Derbyites chaffing so jaunty and gay; Now the Whig Tapers low burn at Broadlands and Woburn The Hopes ...

... Ministers has aetU-Kf rendered their position unassailable.— Morning Herald. THE WHIGS AND PATRONAGE. Why is there always an outcry throughout the sountrf for the Whigs, which the Tories cannot command 1 WhY, if you talk to your fellow-traveller by rail ...

... Disraeli's definition of Toryism, as contrasted with Whig deeds and principles, pub- lished by him in 1835, entitled a Vindication of the British Constitution, is well worthy of perusal. He says— The Whig party has ever been odious to the Eng- lish people ...

... was oligarchy. This Whig system of exclusion ended in their isolation—they found that they had excluded them- selves from the vital force and sympathy of the country. But the third and deep-seated reason of the decadence of the Whigs is the senility of ...

... George is not quite the last of the hereditary, Whigs before or behind the curtain. Natural causes at some time or other invite men who have worked hard all their lives in the public service, whether as Whig or Tory Siinisters or as independent to the w ...

... compliance with his own view of the necessities of his position, he proposed to offer high office to several members of the Whig party and even to certain members of Lord Kussell's Govern- ment. He should, therefore, have to ask from his own sup- porters ...

... to bring Lord Palmerston and Lord J. Russell into amity, the chief basis of which alliance would be the existence of a new Whig Premier, when a new Govern- ment comes into power, and who has not been Premier before. ...

... much doubting the veracity of the comparison made by his opponent between the old Whig and the new, and bluntly asking the question for the peeple's solution, if the Whig party have been lukewarm in the cause of reform. Again, Liberal members in the House ...

... holders is a complete Whig principle; they have in- variably declaimed against a plurality of votes, of which this is an instance. It is amusing to contemplate the characters delineated in the Reform debate, and should the Whigs be recalled to power, ...

... of such coarse etementsthtt the Whig oligarchy re- taiiin its rule. By means of some rotten borosgha (like Peterborough, Calne, and such places), and by the terri- torial influence of some overgrown proprietary, Ibe Whig- can muster of their own faction ...

... language, various reasoning, and vast reading. His absence from the House of Commons leaves a blank in the Whig party. Where now is there a single Whig of any genius in Parliament ? It is with pride that the Con- servatives can point to the rare endowments ...

... they must advance. He had no doubt that Whig historians would, with aU tha advantage of glowing periods and pointed anti- theses, record the disestablishment of the Church of England as the tip-top achievement of Whig policy. They were getting among real ...