... CHANCERY REFORM ACCORDING TO THE WHIGS. We heartily wish that we could discover anything in the official conduct of the present Whin- administration on which we could conscientiously beltow a little praise. We have been anxiously watching for something ...

... DISSOLUTION OF THE WHIG GOVERNMENT. The Whig cabinet has fallen to pieces from sheer debility of constitution. From the first it was wretchedly defective in intellectual and political stamina. There was no robustness about it. Struggling on feebly from ...

... between the Whigs , and Tories ; and we think it an advantage that at leasi one of the official parties in parliament is now dircctl) and specifically committed in favour of an extension o: the suffrage. In opposition the zeal of the Whigs wil] wax warmer ...

... more for the people than his ■ Liberal predecessors ; and we know also that the Whigs in opposition, the Whigs in hope of office, are much more liberal than the Whigs in possession of office. How Lord John Russell, on the opposition benches, would have ...

... Tories. They saw the trimming of their ancient allies, the Whigs, who were so assiduously shuffling between toleration and persecution ; and at last could not disguise from themselves that the Whigs were in reality making them their cat's-paw, and playing ...

... in the government vessel! If any good has resulted from the extraordinaryproceedings which followed the resignation of the Whig cabinet, it is that the public have now a clearer and fuller knowledge than before of the principles, objects, and designs ...

... Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, General Sam Houston, of Texas, and Judge Douglass, of Illinois; while the most prominent men on the Whig side are General Scott, Mr. Fillmore (the actual president), Mr. Crittenden, of Kentucky ; and Daniel Webster, the great orator ...

... of flavour as hardly to be worth powder and shot. There is, of course, the usual flourish with which every session under a Whig government is sure to open about a bill being in preparation to extend the suffrage ; but this time, the flourish is remarkably ...

... Liberal government. Why, the Whigs in were totally different creatures to the Wings out. (Applause.) It was quite notorious that tiie timid, the rather far-seeing of the respectable classes, had been willing to keep the Whigs fa, because they knew if they ...

... promise of Lord John Russell, to introduce a bill next session for extending the franchise, though we are far from expecting the Whig premier will, of his own accord, devise liberal things, has, at least, this value, that it shows the suffrage question to have ...

... two days later than the telegraphic accounts received by the America at Liverpool. General Scott had beeu nominated by the Whig State Convention of Pennsylvania for the Presidency. The prospects of Mr. Webster are reported to be favourable. * A movement ...

... A coalition was attempted between the Peelites and the Whigs, but the religious liberality of the Marquis of Aberdeen aud Sir James Graham went beyond that of the professing liberals of the Whig party, and the project fell to pieces. The Hume and Cobden ...