... perfect embodiment of Whig centralisation which this country had ever seen, and after bearing that incubus for five years, the House of Commons, to the universal joy of the nation, last session extinguished this machine which the Whigs had set up and endeavoured ...

... got into a dead lock, and party, i as that word used to be undereood, s now impotent for anything but obstruction. Neither Whigs nor Tories can form a Covernment, but either might be able to upset one; and it is difficult to get men who hive long epposed ...

... forces, through the Court of Tuscany it picks a quarrel with that power; and that dilettante politician and diplomatist who. as Whig Lord- Lieutenant, emptied the jails of Ireland to gain for his party the support of O'Connell and his tail; who, as atub.issador ...

... Pelham had to say in his good set speech, specially prepared for the particular occasion. Very well indeed did the Radical-Whig-Tory-Protectionist Baronet acquit himself, throwing about as much energy into his work as might have sufficed to finish the ...

... THE HALF-HOLIDAY. LECTURES AND MUSIC. The hatred of the Whig organ to half-holidays and temperance is sufficiently notorious. Every movement tending to the amelioration or social elevation of the masses has been consistently and continuously ridiculed ...

... the sheriff be handed over to the Magistrates; on the other, such a concession would be cutting at the very roots of modern Whig ideas of Government, and between these two stools the bill will fall, although not perhaps till the Town Council have wasted ...

... Drouyn De Lhuys resigned or was cashiered, it is not known which; but Lord John kept his seat to rave the country, as he and his Whig colleagues had often done before. The perfidy of Austria became the theme of British declamation. Lord Lyndhurst thundered ...

... on this occasion of his splashing his late colleagues in the Cabinet. Much of truth there was no doubt in what the last of Whigs said on the occasion, but much, also, is its ellect marred by the particularly provoking delays and shortcomings that have ...

... of the great Powers as severelz e 2 his logic and his facts as he used to scald the points of the Whigs by his sarcasm in those annuml reviews of Whig deficiencies which for some sessions made his name terrible in the camp of hispolitieal foes. The speech ...

... at the table on Monday for the purpose of taking the oaths and his seat was the signal for a wonderfully small outbreak of Whig cheering. The little man really looks no bigger morally or corporeally now that his dignified ' labours as a peace-maker ...

... Is of boors ! The Times has a long article on the veteran reformer, whlch concludes as follow.:— Mr Hume worked not for Whigs or Tories. He laboured for his country—for the world at large. He never put his faith in sovereigns or in gove•nmenta. If be ...

... City movement. Scotland will swell the cry; and there are whispers of an Edinburgh meeting, despite the cold shoulder of the Whigs Other places will follow these examples, and before many months are over, the Palmerstonian Cabinet will in all probability ...