... of Free-trade. course, without the aid of the Whigs, such victory would be impossible; but if rumour may be credited, the Whigs are willing in this matter to do the dirty work of the Derbyites. Servile Whig journals, on all occasions ready for a fling ...

... good county. The conduct of the Whig Ministry relative to Mr Hntt's motion for withdrawing the African squadron has been very generally condemned; and there can no doubt that similar motion will be carried, though the Whig Ministry, along with the said ...

... THE SAVAGE PARTY. It is not so long ago that Whig and Tory did for a description of most of us. The outs and the ins was Dr Parr's phrase, and it in his day came to very much the same thing. To be sure, there have always been a few politicians who ...

... split of the party on this question. But this assumes too much. We have to learn whether Lord Hartington speaks for his fellow Whigs or only for himself. There is vast difference between the two. doubt, even in the latter case condemnation of the land laws ...

... names of modern politicians, and having to the last a hearty detestation of the pitiful masquerade which the Whigs have joined —which the Whigs, dropping their traditional name, call Liberalism. In all respects estimable; in all places upright and courteous ...

... ons, embracing quasi-Liberal ism ; and the Liberals, numerous as they are, consis of oligarchical Whigs, Whigs of the old school, Liberals who are Whig followers; independent Liberals and ultra Liberals; but there are no common views in politics to ensure ...

... an attempt to once more dish the Whigs. With his entire Cabinet of 16 members' at his back, he has adopted s Moderate-Liberal policy pure and simple, with the evident intention of outflanking the aristocratic Whigs. No wonder, therefore, that these ...

... by the Whigs. Notwithstanding the obloquy which it has lately become fashionable to heap upon Whiggery by Tories on the one side and Radicals the other, the writer believes that the future our country depends upon the Whigs. In politics a Whig is one ...

... youthful scion of a well-known Whig family. Lord Ramsay is the son of the Earl of Dalhousie, and the late Earl, better known in politics first as Mr Fox Maule and afterwards as Lord Panmure, was a notable Whig of the Whigs. The choice of such a champion ...

... Liverpool is greatly enhanced by the fact that the Liberal candidate is a Whig. Should be prove successful, the Whig portion of the Liberal party will be strengthened. At present the Whigs and Radicals are united in their opposition to the policy of the Government ...

... Lords contains five dukes of the United Kingdom, two of Tory and three Whig creation. One of the Tory dukedom; bowever, is that of Wellington, in no sense • party asstion. The Whig appetite for strawberry-leaves M therefore to the Tory in the ratio of ...

... by the Whigs to a kind of political posturemaking. An equivocal Christian of the early ages kept on bowing terms with Jupiter, lest perchance the old mythology should one day again resume its sway. Profiting by so judicious precedent, the Whigs, uncertain ...