... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... that tbe rule for a new trial ought to be discharged. Rule discharged accordingly. An April Fool.—Dr. Barker, of the British Whig, confesses to having played off a rich trick on Mr. L'Annitage, of the Kingston Herald. The way (he story goes is, that the ...

... other elements of the House of Commons to consider. With respect to Lord John Russell and the Whigs, the breach between them would seem to be irreparable. The Whigs have accepted Palmerston lieu of Russell, and whether the latter will have an opportunity ...

... eircumstaamos—Haviag lest her seam about eighteen years she gave up keeping and passed bar time the most approved hermit style, Whig annoyed by anyone ormatag the hold of bee door. sod scarcely allowing hermit the bare aseessaries of life. She was in the habit ...

... tin* plixilcgi* choosing t!n* amlidiiti s. an assiH-iaiioii which not founded tin* narrow, and *w almost dffunct principles Whig Tory, ilnhroad l>asis snp|>ortiiig merit from whaicxcr ipiartcr it may npmar —placing the right man in tin* righl pla. •okm*; ...

... their political affairs are managed at the Albion-street bureau, and convince them what a kindly care is taken of them by our Whig contemporary. It will inform them with what devotion Mr. Mills is prepared to serve them, when he could even rush from the ...

... articles are to bear t►e Agitating of their Mika. PRI:1881A. THE MUM ROYAL. The the nods the Prussia. Masts HI. Majesty the Wag Whig bees pleased to. day to Worm lb* Royal Fainily and Court that, with his own approbatioa and the missed of Majesty Queen of ...

... merits of Yiee- Chancellor Page Wood r are discussed opposition to those of ihe Attorney- a General, Sir Richard Bethell. The Whigs are ( peculiarly unfortunate in their appointment s to the Woolsack. Lord Brougham was far their best 1 man, bat was impracticable ...

... constituencies of the mere agricultural counties. In dealing with this part of the case it must be borne in mind that the Whig Reform Bill of 1832 did great injustice as between the boroughs and the counties, and that 1858 it will be the business of ...

... amount down once for all may be adopted, in place of throwing a life-charge upon the public. A witty writer in the Northern Whig naively points out that Her Majesty is the most energetic of ladies. She was delivered of a daughter a week or two ago ; and ...