... STATESMANSHIP OF MODERN WHIGS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD. SlB, — Perhaps no party in the history of this country ever manifested the desire of political power so strongly as the modern Whigs. Nor liuvo they been overscrupulous i:i tho means they have ...

... NO MORE WHIG REFORM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD. Sir, — I should think it must be evident to men of un- prejudiced minds that the Reform Bill of 1831 has proved an entire failure. As it was ill-advised in its origin, no it has boen most calamitous ...

... WHIG CORRUPTION IN CHURCH PATRONAGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD. gl ß) — The appointment of Dr. Robinson to the vacant stall at Rochester, has given rise to no little observation. The cathedral establishment there has lately excited a good deal of ...

... obtaining empire bave not been equalled by those of tbe Whigs for gaining political power. As for the political equilibrium of Europe, no power on earth, perhaps, bas done more to destroy it than the modern Whigs. After the battle of Water- loo, Great Biitain ...

... THE GANG CABINET—AN ANAGRAM' O ladstone is garrulous, Jesuit, prig : A berdeen is incompetent, surly, and Whig : N ewcastle is insolent, ignorant, vain : O raham unprincipled, factious, a lover of P* ,c 3 and of gain. Buch a batch U just fitted in union ...

... greatly increase exjieuse. What with these, aud revising barristers and judges of thei r county courts, it would seem that tho Whig-Radicals take tbeir measures for enlisting the whole ofthe bar in their service. — Yours, &c, ' ?? ...

... is a Whig, and not only that, but a connection of the Elliots. He re- presented Falmouth as a Whig, obtained the ap- pointment of superintendent of the packets there as a Whig, received the appointment as commodore in the East Indies as a Whig, and ...

... THE CHURCH-RATE QUESTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD. SlB, — On a former occasion, I think in 1837 or 1838, when the Whig-Radioals, who with an impudent false- hood assumed the distinction of Liberal, were in power, tbey proposed a measure for the ...

... iufiueuce, but from other quarter 8 apprehend unfavourable accounts. KErRESI.riTATIO.V OF LIMERICK. Mr. Barrington, the Protestant Whig candidate, ® ja tired, and Mr. De Vere has only to walk over the tv X pnted course at Limerick. FERMANAGH. - J Lord 11. Loftus ...

... retrenchments could be made in the public expenditure. Such a committee is particularly needful at the present moment, under a Whig- Radical administration. It would be well that the countiy should be made acquainted with the large sums of money which are ...

... delighted at the defeat of government in thoir attempt to secularise the education of tbe people of Scotland. We all know how the Whig-Radicals of the present government, on the last occasion when they were in power, imposed on the tribes of our pos.essions ...

... MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. GREAT CONSERVATIVE TRIUMPH AT NORTHAMPTON. The six retiring councillors were Whigs, five of ' have been sent to the right-about, aud replaced l»T and true Conservatives. Tho sixth would, no douW. shared a similar fate had be been ...