... of 1848, Mr. Crittenden, with other leading Whigs of Kentucky and other states, became early committed to the support of General Taylor, and took measures to effect the nomination of the latter at the Whig National Convention. Mr. Clay having subsequently ...

... who attacked Lord John Russell so vigorously in the debate on his resolution, stands an excellent chance of ousting the great Whig Leader. ...

... Sir Robert and Lady Peel were recently Invited to spend some time at that celebrated centre of Whiggatherings, the focus of Whig influence and intelligence, of party organization and management—Woburn Abbey, we exclaimed to a friend, That is contrived ...

... House of Commons are distinguished as Ministerialists and Opposition, which is a decided improvement on setting them down as Whig, Tory, Conservative, or Liberal, for all these distinctions have passed away, and the parties will need reconstruction on the ...

... noble defence of Lucknow. It alludes also to Sir James Brooke, as likely to be treated with more consideration than by the Whigs. Credit is further given to the Premier for diligently seeking out cases for justice, passed over by the late administration ...

... shrewd politician, he knew that the professed RINI 211 liberals would be split up into a number of incoherent sections that no whig leader could bring into cohesion. Such a combination as that which defeated the Government could only have been gained, except ...

... Throne, under the advice of a Whig Ministry; and the consequences of the alteration of the sugar duties were so disastrous to our free-producing colonies, that, within two years after the passing of the act of 1846, a Whig Ministry also found it necessary ...

... DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. WE are not accustomed to occupy our columns with the con- I flicting battles of whigs, tories, and radicals, under t..e ordinary proceedings in parliament; but when an occasion like the present intervenes between ...

... Lord Derby has declined to take upon him the task of forming an Administration, it is a generally admitted opinion that the Whig party are in a position to render it impossible for them to form one. So that there is no knowing how the matter will end, ...

... the public mind. No working man has his hopes excited; no middle class welcome it as a settlement. It is a Whig measure, devised to secure a Whig majority sufficient to hold office, and, by a union with the Liberal Conser vatives, to checkmate the more ...

... the high and mysterious arts of finance. The case is simply this :—The Government in its executive capacity, whether Tory, Whig, or Radical, employs a number of individuals to conduct certain departments of the public service; for which it contracts to ...

... these divaceful anomalies, will never be able to reform the currency and banking laws of Great Britain. It is not a question of Whig or Tory, but one of practical knowledge, honesty of purpose, and of undaunted courage. The Bill brought in by Mr. Headlam is ...