NOTES OF THE WEEK

... that an avowal like this, so free from all taint of that party animosity, personal invective, or factious spleen, with which Whigs are too apt to flavour their speeches, would have been entitled to respect, if not praise; but instead of that, it is merely ...

LORD MELBOURNE

... the two principal diffi- culties in the formation of a Government were Lord Brougham and Lord Palmnerston. The whole body of Whig leaders, it seems, were sick of l.crd Brougham; and it was found impossible to include him in the new Administration. But who ...

EXTRACTS FROM FUNNY FOLKS

... club can't avail them now, Though beastly overbearing ; We have Affirmed, and this is how- The sacred right of swearing, THE WHIG, No, hang it all, we couldn't stand, After that IriEh bill, sirs, We. the chief owners of the land (And Churob), this bitter ...

A STRANGE STORY

... means to have the children of the man who lost his life in their service put in some way of earning an honest ?? Whig. On Saturday the Whig published the following: -We are now informed, on authority which admits no question, that the tale of the two ...

LITERATURE

... Rockingham, accompanied by a paper on the t traditions of Whig cabinets. An article on English ad- I ministrations from 1816 to 1830 has been suggested by Mr. t Roebuck's History of the Whig Ministry; and among 1 the pleasing literary contributions ...

MAD JACK HALL OF OTTERBURN

... George for the Whigs, raised the cry that the Church was in danger aud excited a spirit of disaffection through- out the realm. Riots were continually taking place in all the large towns, Dissenting meeting houses were pulled down, noted Whigs were threatened ...

A MAN OF ACTION.*

... see how in this a game of crose-parposes Godolphin's Whig Cabinet insinuated that the commander it had chosen I Yy wasl an impostor, while the Tories hotly upheld I. the heroism of its grmat a Whig as could be found in the kingdom. The assailed met the ...

THEATRES

... vehicle for political satire, and, readapting it in 1717 under the namne of The NYoiy/uror, won at once the favour of the Whigs and the hatred of the Jacobite party. Half a century later, how. ever, a change had come over the spirit of parties. The satirical ...

A MODERN PROPHECY

... beer barrels? bi What of the five millions? 0, Prophet ?? I cC Deficit obvious, 0 Plainly bequeathed to us m By these false Whigs. m Quick-witted Benjamite, ul Sbiftv and elever pi Leading the Philistinea; in Glancing along their lines, t Confident ever ...

LITERATURE

... terrible junetion of the two whig ohiefs had at last taken pleas-it was manifestly all up with the government. Honourable members had arranged, in their own minds, for what offices they womad or -would not take under the sew whig administration; pogroammes ...

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LORD BROUGHAM.*

... volume is taken up with Brougham's early tours in Scandinavia, Holland, Italy, and a mission to Portugal in iSHo, when the Whigs were in power. His journals are written with great vivacity, and show considerable power of description. Many lively sketches ...

SARAH DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH.*

... true also of the whole Whig party. And it is more probable, as Dr. Ranke points out in his recently published History of England, that the dis- missal of the Duchess was only one part of that general design for breaking down the Whig domination which was ...