... no party could take the helm, and that, at a word from him, the Whig Premier resumed confidence, and once again proceeded on his perilous voyage. It would thus almost seem that the Whig minister holds power by the sufferance of him who has long been ...

... DUNDEE ADVERTISER. TUESDAY, MARCH 18. Day after day, or rather, night after night, have the manoeuvres and exertions of the Whigs—their plans and policy, their attitudes and arrangements—been becoming more contemptible. The helpless, perplexed, and desponding ...

... can we without running the risk of being in a minority ? We are glad that Mr Baillie postponed his motion. It has given the Whigs another chance which we sincerely trust they will avail themselves of; for, much as the country has been disappointed with ...

... parties were Whig and Tory, and their respective proceedings, in so far as they extended beyond repartition of the sweets of office, could easily anticipated. At present there are Tories, and in some sense it would be quite as well there were no Whigs. There ...

... suggesting the curious combinations into which circumstances may now force them. It has been the saying for years that the terms Whig and Tory, or rather the principles understood those.denominations, were rapidly losing force and significance, being displaced ...

... and the Whigs will have the same ft, vounte plea for reconstructing this imposition which tbey have so long used for allowing it remam its iniquity. It 8 for difficulties that Ministers are chosen and paid, and it is high timo that the Whigs were preparing ...

... blows his trumpet before his errors, and the attention of all the world is fixed ten days beforehand the misdeeds of a noble Whig, closely allied to several members of the Cabinet. There have been statesmen who, with such a scandal in prospect, would have ...

... some of seeing a movement made, but slips away and we remain as we were at tb ginning of the session. We know not nuke of the Whigs. We can easily under* the Conservatives declining to attempt tDe j mation of a Ministry. Lord Stanley s us in no mystery so ...

... Persians, has mtirely subsided; and we are now informed that the stability, the very existence of the whole system depends upon a Whig Administration, under the support of tht present House of Commons; that House which, if it supported a free trade in corn with ...

... made. The schools are in general working successfully. The Dungarvan election has resulted in the retnru of Mr Ponsonby, the Whig nominee, over Maguire, the proprietor of the Cork Examiner, Roman Catholic, and the representative of the Tenant League. The ...

... the experiment has failed, that fortune has been otherwise nnpropitious to the cause. For the first two years of office tho Whigs had a species of Dictatorship, and might do what they pleased. In fact, they did what they pleased, and were not called to ...

... tion. Undue modesty is certainly not the cause of this singular phenomenon ; nor has the aristocratic exclusiveness of the Whig oligarchy very mnch to do with it; quite ac little the often alleged want of official experience. The truth must told : Our ...