... 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 ...

... transpire just on the eve of an election, in which Whig rule is hang- ing in a most uncomfortable balance of suspension. A certainty of the fact would doubtless strike off j some twenty or thirty Whig members, and the } loss of that number would prove ...

... 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 Ministers or as independent mem- bers ...

... 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 ...

... parties at the begin- ning of the century, .saiat'te tJ.d lJartles-the Whigs and Tories—were hard at work quai railing aboat the puwer of tne Crown, and they continued to be Whigs and Tories on the ola tjUent.ou, but they were Con- sn-vatives aad Liberals ...

... franchise ever proposed by a British Cabinet was that of the present Government, and in point of sentiment of liberality ho Whig Cabinet ot recent tirhes has surpassed the ministry of Lord Derby and,his colleaguee. Not a few think with us, that in the ...

... 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 ...