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einglanb. – THE REVENUE

... thepost of Comptroller to the Queen's Household. We believe the next session will, howevir, solve the mystery, and the quondam Whig Comptroller of the Household, having succeeded to the peerage and become nirquis of Queensberry, will ',e found voting with ...

(From our Special Correspondent.)

... innocence—was asked what he might require, he is said to have named the modest sum of L. 6000 a-year. The country is aware how the Whigs magnified that sum, and how they were beaten on their proposal, until the Prince's salary was fixed at L. 30,000. Unfortunately ...

Zpirit of tl)c preso. PROSPECTS OF THE BALLOT

... people, and prove, mechanically, a total failure. Such is the Alpha such the Omega of the dissentients' alphabet, for neither Whigs nor Tories pretend to reconcile the inconsistency of a mechanical failure producing a mural revolio ion. If votes cannot be ...

*uminarll

... the bounden duty of every true-blue Whig to furnish it with ample means of cleansing itself from the impurities contracted in the fall. Like well-trained spaniels, the followers answered to their ranger's call. A Whig martyr was a novelty in these degenerate ...

111 is a jelly good fellow

... the past, Radicals in their bnpes of the future; but Whigs have faith only in the present. Hampden and Pym are names to conjure by, not objects of imitation; and a modern Moses would find the Whigs of the present day wedded to their flesh-pots then the ...

DR

... as a portion of the school training, the prefix 'Original came to be attached, to distinguish it from that set up by the Whigs and Romaniste iv; a rival. The tenth annual report, presented on Tuesday, must be extremely gratifying to all who are interested ...

THE COUNTY GENTLEMEN AND THE LORD PROVOST,

... wrong way—a way SO utterly wrong, or rather vicious, as to deserve no quarter. Like all measures courting the support of a Whig Government, it begins with creating new tax-eaters and extending centralisation. A board, to be called the General Road Board ...

Summarp

... and mystifications resorted to by the Whig clique organ its attempt to stifle the freehold movement, without daring to appear openly to oppose it. Such displays of casuistry have, for a certain variety of the Whig mind, charms Which only souls refiaed ...

SCOTCH PARLIABODITARY REFOItDL

... for Parliamentary reform combines to teach us two practical lessons. It must be obvious to every sincere reformer that the Whigs have lost all confidence, if they ever had any, in the middle and industtious classes of the community, and that the , final ...

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1857. Summarn

... altogether this Dalkeith meeting was most StICCPS• ful, notwithstanding the weather, which was stormy and forbidding. The Whigs are becoming furious, and this Dalkeith meeting furnished their organ, who, from writing in favour of this object, has, as ...

THE ASSOCIATION VERSUS THE EXHIBITION

... was, for 1855, 72; for 1556. John MNeill, G C.B. Not withstanding a very active canvass on behalf of Lord John Russell by the Whig 75—an increase of 3. COURT OF —Seteral Sir John 31'Neill's election was carried by a tried at the High Court on Monday. -James ...

HISTORY OT PARTIES IN AXIOPICL

... combined to lift the new party thus organised into favourable notice, foremost among which may be noted the demise of the old Whig party—long the Conservative power of the country, and still fondly clung to by many of its old members. It had in a great measure ...