... WHIG ECONOMY. We continually hear Whig candidates on the hustings make the most fervent promises of economy and retrenchment. Remarkable there fore the fact that under their rule the Civil Service Estimates are running up to an amount very far exceeding ...

... contemporary to the proof. No doubt the Whigs have held up the Conservative party as the defenders of every abuse—the opponents of every reform—the advocates of despotism—the enemies of national progress! But this is only a Whig notion of Conservatism. The principles ...

... the table of the House of Commons, and compel the Whigs to say either aye or no to its provisions. He has j had enough of Whig trimmings, and will have no more of it. The consequence is tbat tbe Whigs are in a sad fright, and they warn Mr. Bright that ...

... Conservative claims 7 0 Whig-Radical ditto 2 0 ! Freemen making their own claims.. 3 Conservative objections 2 Whig-Radical ditto 0 0 £10 HOUSEHOLDERS. Conservative claims 38 7 Whig-Radical ditto 69 14 Conservative objections 15 1 Whig-Radical ditto 11 4 SUMMARY ...

... from the Whig boroughs. In 1832, reform was cheap to those Whig maguates who declaimed against the rotten boroughs of that time, but now it the Whig boroughs which must be struck off the | parliamentary roll, and justly so, too. Herein lies the Whig diffidence ...

... , of course, that Lord Derby will offer them office; and that they know. But they will no longer let the Whigs have all their own way. The Whig families, as they long ago must have found out, and now own, are not of the people- They are the people ...

... THE HOPES OF THE SESSION ARE ALL BUT FLED. A Whig Lament. Air — The Flowers of the Forest. I've seen Pam laughing, the Derbyites chaffing, The Derbyites chaffing, so jaunty and gay ; Now the Whig Tapers low burn at Broadlands and Woburn, The Hopes ...

... REFORM OR NO REFORM. Sib Gkokge Lewis, who is an influential mem- * ber of the Whig party, in his recent speech at ] Brighton, declared that the Reform Act of 1832 had worked well, and that the present House of Commons, upon all great questions and important ...

... CONSERVATIVE PROGRESS The Whigs invariably hold up the Conservatives as the defenders of every abuse—the opponents of every reform—the antagonists of progress. For twenty years have the Whigs enjoyed the emoluments and the patronage of office under this ...

... SEPTEMBER 26, 1858. Whilst the Whigs were in office they talked of reform, but never entered into the subject with a view to action. The liberal press also occasionally alluded to reform as a desideratum, and for its attainment tbe Whigs were kept in office year ...

... regret the result of the East Norfolk elec- tion—in which the Whig, Major Colne—with not the slightest pretensions to represent an agricultural oommu- nity, —has, by the combination of Whig and Liberal ■ landlords, defeated the excellent Conservative and ...

... the Whigs will go with the Bright party in tbe House of Commons. No doubt they will oppose Lord Derby's Reform Bil on any pretence or pretext that may be suggested It will be either too liberal or too restricted—too broad or too narrow —for Whig principles ...