... has not given to the country any great measure of consolation. Lord Palmerston has cast his baits into Whig waters. He has indeed caught chiefly Whig lords and with them two or three Radicals ; but we know how office held by two or three Liberals serves ...

... WHIG CORRUPTION AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS. {From the Standard.) “To be sure every class has its price, as well as every individual. You cannot bribe in ibe House of Lords by £2. 10s., or a place in the Post-office; but there no bribery in making barons viscounts ...

... TIIE LAST OF THE WHIGS! On Friday night, the men of peace ' in the House of Commons seized Lord John Russell by the throat, and forced him to divulge a solitary example of the system of double-dealing, which has been so long and so iniquitously pursued ...

... WHIG PATRONAGE AND THE IRISH BAR, There is, perhaps, no profession in either country possessing stronger claims to our sympathy and respect than the Bar of Ireland. Nor are we compelled, in support of this assertion, to recur to those traditional glories ...

... FOREIGN POLICY OF THE WHIGS IN 1828. But the English Opposition thought very differently. They were indignant that the Duke of Wellington should bare con. sidered the affair of Navarino as untoward ; they were indignant that Turkey should hare been called ...

... W??? . ToRY.-Whig, or Whaig, is the Scotch for Whey, which became a sobriquet of drovers, and a representative of bandits It was first applied as a nick-name to those who attempted to resist the oppressions practised against Scotland, lory came from toory ...

... Mtvmingfo&m gratis BIRMINGHAM SATURDAY AUGOST II 1856 GRATIS PRIVATE e is iis Johs’s Political Thb a Whig a ” Speech— Siesta— Happt Misistky —The Meetisg— Fever Friday Evening really the of its breath till of week its final utterance may be to have made ...

... moners-a Whig w Durdan's house- Whig Ministry to heave at this hold. The the will assuredly come of it. country w Inot submi any longer to be my-cousin-Georges,or hackneyea p» ford breed . We g retur „ the taunt o Ea Gey, and say to the Whig Cabinet-mongere ...

... command they had assumed, though still compelled to adhere to the Whig ranks, because spurned by those whose confidence they nad abused, and whom they had so treacherously deserted. The Whigs overthrew the Peelite Government, who had virtually acted as their ...

... SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. NATIONAL DEGRADATION FOR WHIG SUPREMACY. ( From the Press.) We are in condition now to estimate the cost to the country of that manoeuvre which ejected the Government of Lord Derby from office little more than two year* back. Political ...

... radical programmes anc to rag-shop philosophies, we may be permitted decline selling ourselves into their hands. As for Whig oligarchy, the Whig families are few, because very few aristoerats can be found to cast Their social ex- in their lot with the people ...

... very different creed; they have been induced to believe, by their dear friends the Whigs, that capacity for the public service is inherent only in the Great Whig Party — that small collection of great families, who still rule the country in defiance ...