... no party so utterly destitute of principles as the genus London Whig. (!) In the earlier portion of his letter the writer endeavours to make out the Whigs respectable possible. The Whigs have no idea setting themselves at the head of any questiou that ...

... reader suppose he landed? Why, as brother Jonathan would say, he went squash into a plea ad misericordiam for the Whigs! Those Whigs whom his Lordship had just described as so immaculateall of whom had retired from office covered with personal glory ...

... course you propose. shall certainly succeed—but it wilt be against both the Whigs and Tories ; and I would hold both parties cheap in regard to their assistance. AH the Whigs deprecate in words the fettering of the press; and yet, with power in their ...

... portion of the late Parliamentary session they held office, they did all the Whigs left undone—or rather all that portion of it which was worth doing—and a great deal more than the Whigs could have done. They can find no fault with what they are doing, though ...

... LORD JOHN RUSSELL AT PERTH. The great Whig Demonstration which, under the name of a complimentary dinuer to Lord Panmure by !he city of Perth, took place here on Friday last, forms the leading political event of the week. Why an occasion which, its original ...

... was proper subject of treaty-arrangement. He resists the idea of tariffs by treaty, as it regarded as antagonistical to the Whig doctrine of protection to manufacture by revenue tariff laws. The St John's New Brunswicker asserts, on the highest authority ...

... is now considered safe for the city. In fact, Fenwick, the Radical candidate, is not at all popular amongst the independent Whigs. ...

... were returned to office, only be adding insult to their injuries. (Cheers.) Depend upon it, the resumption of power by the Whig party, backed, as it must be, by the assistance and addition of the members of the Mancheoter school, will be but a signal ...

... to a closer union. Mr Hume tells him that the Liberals are of three classes: one—who consider themselves bound to the Whigs to move when they move, and be quiet and absent when they will not do anything. The other —who are liberal in their opinions ...

... to throw Lord John Russell and the Whigs overboard altogether, and the big ship, Radical, is to sail into the port of office without the aid of the old tug, Whiggery. It had almost grown into a proverb, that the Whigs were more powerful out of office than ...