... parliamentary or financial reform. At that time the most liberal whigs were far more conservative than any member of the present government; but a new party arose the Commons, and made the whigs radicals, and, to all appearance, the conservatives, influenced ...

... THE PEELITES AND WHIGS. The Parliamentary proceedings of the last few months —and especially of the last fortnight—show that at present there is a complete break up between the Peelites and Whigs. The conduct of Mr Gladstone in the House of Commons, in ...

... THE WHIG BUDGET AND CONSERVATIVE POLICY. Tm resignation of the Whig Ministry has completely taken the country by surprise, and unexpected was the event that the leaders of the great Conservative party were at the time busily engaged marking out their ...

... THE WHIG LAMENT. Air, —Exile of Erin. L /Performed with great applause at the Assembly Rooms, Leith, Monday, Dee. 20. There lectured in Leith a sage Whig politician, His sconce, wise and learned, sad visions did fill— As sadly he wailed o'er bis fallen ...

... THE WHIG PARTY. It is curious that while we have difficulty in finding people who are content lb@ called Tories, there are rery few politicians among who either designate themselves or are accustomed to be designated Whigs. The more interesting therefore ...

... THE WHIG ONSLAUGHT. The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s addresses in Edinburgh last week have afforded a welcome theme to the Whig journals. If their enemy has not written book, he has as many speeches as might fill a fair sized volume, and they seize the ...

... The Whig Plot There is now no doubt. says the Leaden osivrepon• dent of the N.B. that the defeat of the Government wee brought about he a carefully laid itt of the malcontent IMP, even Sir William vomit is included in the cabal. r Gladstone promised to ...

... WHIG POLICY. The constituency of Perth, in paying a wcll-mcri*. ed tribute of respect to their late member, Panmure, hare, at the same time, afforded opportunity for something like an exposition of tb future tactics of that large portion of the I.ibml ...

... THE TOMES AND WHIGS._ The Daily News has made an extraordinary statement to the effect that the Government, in view of the result of the elections, have abandoned all intention of attempting to conc.l ate the Parnellites. An effort will now, says the ...

... THE UNCONDITIONAL WHIG. VVe were last week treated by the Dean of Faculty to a eulogy on Whig constancy, which was suggestive in its way. The Whigs are the same at all times and under all circumstances, in victory or defeat. But for the Tory opposition ...

... THE LAST OF THE WHIGS Lord Granville has been seriously unwell and at his age the worst might have been expected. But I am glad to say it is not time yet write his obituary, and the press which was in such indecent haste to dispose of Sir Joseph B;szalgette ...

... WHIG & TORY. THE present political Munition would be amusing were it not at a crisis in European history, and fraught with consequences of momentous import. The political atmosphere, indeed, is wane, but party spirit is frigid and cool. The country ...