... WHIG FINANCE. In the House of Commons on Friday evening, Mr. Merries asked how it was that the financial accounts of the year were late, and had not yet been presented. The Chancellor of the Exchequer could not sav,but would inquire. __ Humoured Visit ...

... character, that it will have the best pos- sible chance of passing. The Whigs will consider it quite sufficient, and the Radicals will accept it as an instal- ment.” As to that, the Whigs are easily pleased when they are in place, It would be “ quite sufficient” ...

... of the new formation. I wish you heard the advanced Liberals on the point; nay, even what the moderate Whigs— Whigs with a popular dash in them— Whigs not utterly tanned into political sole-leather—say as to this cabinet of compromises. Of course, those ...

... WHIG ADMINISTRATION IN IRELAND. (FROM THE NEWS.) The alienation of the representatives of Ireland from the Liberal party in Parliament is a subject on which we hare hitherto refrained from comment ; not because it had escaped our observation, that were ...

... even as a despairing one, two months ago. We assume that it hints in the article to which we refer, at a readiness of the Old Whig Peersto act decisively against Mr. Gladstone, if they could gain some support in the Commons. “Too “late,” we fear, is the ...

... POSITION OF THE WHIG CABINET. (from the times.) Her Majesty, it is announced, will open parliament in person on Tuesday, the 3d of February, and the present cabinet, without any further modification, is prepared to face the difficulties of the session ...

... law will find a ready defender in the same quarter. There is no act audacious enough for a Whig, in the abuse of the authority of the Crown to do, that a Whig, in its confidence, will not justify. But, though resolved to support the conduct of their officer ...

... THE WHIG L T Ss After the declaration of the poll on Mr. attempted to address the electors, but the tumult was redoubled upon his coming forward. Shouts, yells, groans, and the most unearthly noises prevailed daring the whole of his address. Men in the ...

... unpalata- ble truths should they ever again as a body be installed in Downing-street. They were, we will grant, Whigs, pure Whigs, old Whigs—all that in the eyes of that exacting community, the Liberal party, is typical of narrowness and nepotism. They ...

... STATE OF THE WHIG CABINET. _ (from the times.) There is one contingency which factions are apt to overlook, and that is the contingency of success. A game may be very good so long as it is confined to agitation, but may break down the instant there is ...

... NORTHERN WHIG OPPOSED The Wary, the the Liberals, to-day says— Mr. Gladstone has gone to the root of the matter by really proposing to give ali that Mr. Parne!! and his friends ever ventured comstitutionally to demand, and a deal more than any of them ...

... A BROAD The tyranny, which has ever characterised Whig rule in the foreign possessions of this empire, has been recently exemplified by the Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands. This gentleman, Sir H. Warp, formerly repre- sentative of Sheffield ...