... A PURE WHIG pure Whig might be scientifically described as a concentration of political lymph. He is without colour and without pungency, but not without characteristics. There were blue and buff identities fifty years ago. These, however, have vanished ...

... The Northern Whig says that at the adjourned inquest into the horrible act of the servant maid, Eliza M'Dowell, who had attempted to conceal the birth of her female child, by covering it up in the fire, the jury, on the evidence of two medical gentlemen ...

... contrasted this conduct on the part of the present Whig officials in Scotland with the conduct of the Whig officials at the time of the Reform Bill, and for many years thereafter, and hinted that the present Whigs, although professed Liberals, were not really ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... emancipation which the Whigs achieved for Scotland told anew, with all that undoubting faith in its veracity which a party man must needs exhibit. It would ' almost seem to be a settled article of the Whigs— we mean, of course, Edinburgh Whigs—that but for their ...

... it having been established in 1770. For a long period it took the lead of the other journals, and represented the Whig Party and Whig politics with great ability and fidelity. The paper declined gradually in influence from 1840 till about twelve years ...

... in the Whigs. From the Whigs, however, better things were expected. The people trusted the Whigs, and were betrayed. We bring no slander against the party in making this statement. We learn from Lord Jeffrey's Essays that the policy of the Whigs has ever ...

... inaugurated might ultimately land the Whigs in intricate jungle of briars and thorns rather than land flowing with milk and honey. We have, therefore, during the past days, heard little j from that section of the Whig party which ab horrence of Bright is ...

... reciprocating the address of its political wooer. The small favour in which Aytoun is held by the Whigs in his native district, appears to have infected the Whigs at head-quarters. Xo effort has been spared to find a presentable man who should eclipse the ...

... rapid, radical, beneficial, than any other nation ever obtained, to which we are this week pointed the leading Whig organ Scotland, results of Whig rule. Now. reply to this strong statement, we ask what one of these rapid, radical, and beneficial reforms ...

... really mattered little whether Whig or Tory governed England. The Corn Laws had been a standing grievance, demanding immediate attention. That, on the reform of the representation, they did not receive any attention from the Whig Cabinet, early sowed those ...