... THE SELFISHNESS THE WHIGS. It will not of course be forgotten how the Whigs clamoured for the abolition of rotten boroughs, and bow resolute they were, a quarter of century ago, under the leadership of the late Earl Grey in the one house, Lord John Russell ...

... TIIE WHIG NEW POOR LAW. THE EDITOR THE INTELLIGENCER. iMH, —This rut scheme of the Whigs has been so well exposed by the Conservative press, tbat I should have retrained from troubling you with any remarks of mine, had I not seen so much ol the tyrrany ...

... an old Whig, to the Earldom of Leicester, he having previously refused a barony, and to convert the Scotch Duke of Roxburgh, also Whig, into English Earl. At the general election which followed Her Majesty's accession to the throne, four old Whigs, Mr. ...

... anticipation. Like many other Whig commissions, it was a Whig job; and, as we now learn, for the last nine years the country has had to pay from .£3OOO to .£4OOO a year in order to provide for the Tapers and Tadpoles of the great Whig party. By the new arrangement ...

... members of society. Would the Whigs, an executive body, do better for the poor and the ratepayers believe not. It is scarcely questionable that they would not treat the poor so well; and, as to economy, whoever saw the Whigs save any public money The Liberal ...

... parties the country met on nearly equal terms, the Whigs ! were able to retain ofiice at the price of the Lichfield House compact. Even in later years, when circumstances became favourable to them, the Whig party broke down in 1839 and 1341 ,and failed in ...

... ELECTION OF POOR-LAW GUARDIANS. The time for the election of Poor-Law Guardians for 1857-8 is fast approaching; and, as usual, our Whig contemporary has poured his vial of wrath upon the heads of the Conservatives, in order to serve the interest of the political ...

... of a greater authority, Edmund Burke, a staunch Whig, but a Whig who had a sense right and justice, which some of our modern Liberals should try to acquire. In his Appeal from the new to the old Whigs, Mr. Burke says :— The power of acting a majority ...

... Conservative opinions in a place like Beverley, where the Londesborough influence has so long been paramount. In 1852 the Whigs returned both members Mr. Lawley, and Mr. Wells ; in 1857, despite the powerful interests they could bring to bear upon the ...

... advanced party, tempts him with measure embodying the points of tbe People's Charter; Lord John Russell, on behalf tbe Whigs, offers protest against too sweeping outrage on his own cherished principle of finality ; and the more influential Peelites ...

... have never been parties to the boards and commissions which have inundated the country. That has been the work of the Whigs and the Whig-Radicals and under the cover of platform cries for liberty, and delusive agitations, carried on under the name of progress ...

... The sister Isle in former days was the stronghold of Liberalism, and its representatives afforded support which enabled the Whigs to retain office for many a session. Their aid was purchased perhaps somewhat dearly, and often capriciously withheld ; but ...