... Swift, writing in the year 1710, says: * us there seems to have been a barrenness in this point of party names, the words Whig and Tory, although they are net much above thirty years oli, having been pressed ty the service of many successions of parties ...

... Op- position scale against any ministry upon any question. When the Conservatives are in office they vote with the Whigs ; when the Whigs are in office they vote with the Conservatives. ...

... Know- Nothings with a portion of the Southern conser vatives ; and the Republicans comprise the chief part of the old Northern Whigs, the great body of anti-slavery Know-Nothings, the independent Democrats, and, scarcely acknowledged, the scat. tered forces ...

... thirty thous-md regular troops, sixteen thousand police, and the Orangemen of Ulster, with Lord Enniskillen at their head. The Whigs wanted a Foreign Secretary Lord Granville had not tho talents for tho office; circumstances had rendered Lord Palmerston mid ...

... language, varied reasoning, and vast reading. His absence from the House of Commons leaves a blank in the Whig party. Where now is there asingle Whig of any genius in Parliament? It is with pride that the Conservatives can point to the rare endowments and ...

... of sach coarse elements that the Whig oligarchy retains its rule. By means of some rotten boroughs (like Peterborough, Calne, and such places), and by the territorial influence of some overgrown proprietary, the Whigs can muster of their own faction xbout ...

... mere Quixotism to risk a lance against it. The very fanaticism of the Aboli- tionists conspired to give it strength. When the Whigs, after vainly attempting to find a party cry in such questions as Free Trade—attempts always by the blighting compact be- tween ...

... and are not at the ssme time the picked men of many sections, Lord Aberdeen and hi* colleagues were. Predominantly of the Whig aristocratic class, they leave nut such men as Lord John Russell and Karl Grey ; and though see no probability, and certainly ...

... condition, savouring of the sere and yellow leaf,” has excited feelings of anxious solicitude among hia Whig admirers. There are lofty individuals among the Whigs, who abstain from the troubles and anxieties of official life, partly from indolence, and partly ...

... quitting the Queen's service, after having held office for so many years under Whig Ministor. We believe the next session will, however, solve the mystery, and the quondam Whig Comptroller of the Household, having succeeded to the peerage and become Marquess ...

... or What it that the Liberal party fecek or Which are it* loaders—the Premier, or Lord John Russell, or the Stafford Hooae Whigs, the * Economist*,’ or Mr Lofty,’ or Mr Robert Lowe In the present discordant and incoherent state the Liberal connection, ...

... a hundred votes. The parties of Whig and Tory, they formerly existed, exist no longer, though the names survive to conveniently indicate that division which must always exist in the politics of free country. The Whigs have done their part In advancing* ...