... OF THE WHIGS. One of the best things Disraeli said in his attacks on Sir Robert Peel was that Sir Robert caught the Whigs bathing and ran away with their clothes. That applied to his coming out for the total repeal of the com laws when the Whigs were stickling ...

... Irish Exculpation. —On the 3d inst., the Northern Whig described » dangerous bet,” in which it was stated that a man named Greenaway had, in consequence of a wager, proceeded to drink six glasses of whisky (26 0.P.) in succes-. non, and that at the fifth ...

... Times, in leader on Locke King’s motion, says, the moral of last night is, that for the promotion of any liberal measure a Whig ought to lie in opposition, and a Cuaservative in office. Lord Palmerston, who voted againaC Locke King's former bill, had ...

... question but much mistake the minds of the working men of Dundee if, any meeting, they would play into the hands the Finality' Whigs or the Tories, as to declare that they have “ no confidence” in Mr Bright. ...

... further extension of the political rights of the people. We have had since then a Whig Government presided ever by Lord Palmerston ; and that Government, like the preceding Whig Government, also told the people that Parliamentary Reform was necessary, and ...

... clothes of the Whigs while bathing—which he said was certainly a consistent mission for an Israelite. (Laughter.) He next eulogised the Whig party, as indissolubly bound with the most glorious records «f the country,” and exhorted the Whigs to trust the ...

... better Christian than she is. I also leave my late brother’s watch to my brother S., exhorting him thousand times to give up whigging and radicalism, and all other isms, that do most easily beset him. I leave my brother A. my big silver snuff-box, as I am ...

... did in the House of Lords. [Mr Berkeley here quoted an old speech of Mr Bernal Osborne, denouncing the family influence of Whig Cabinets, and referred to the support generally given to the ballot by Sir Alexander Cockburn and Sir Richard Bothell. He continued ...

... Bill which has any chance of being carried, but very much doubt whether the ballot will be included. We know what both the Whigs and Tories think. Their notion is that if they double or treble the number of voters, so long the ballot is withheld, they ...

... were they who constituted the activity and life of Kirriemuir. Back to the days when the greatest distinction amongst us was Whig and Tory, when our great political champions were battling for the Reform Bill which we fondly believed was to accomplish so ...

... places till better men can be fund to tak’ them. We’ve got Leeberal hame legislation frae the Tories we cou’d hae got frae the Whigs under Lord Palmerston —aye, or under Lord John Russell either, for his conduck aboot the ballot question shows that he’s no ...

... throw on Ids tail. Instead of turning a Derbyite, he declares himself as stern democrat ever. He is for neither a Tory nor a Whig Ministry, but a People’s Ministry, and has faith in any Reform Bill not proposed by himself. If anything he is more Radical ...