... merit, tested by competitive examination. This is all humbug. did the Whigs ever reward merit for its own sake ? Merit, indeed, may pick up the crumbs Which fall from the table of the Whig Dives ; but that is all the unfortunate beggar may liope ever to obtain ...

... growing dim, and the right hand management, once adroit, was beginning forget its cunning. We cannot help thinking that for the Whigs a party the late proceedings respecting minor appointments are likely, if not discontinued aud counteracted, to prove disastrous ...

... floor. The dog was the winner. One of the table rats bit his assailant rather severely on the lower part of the jaw. —Northern Whig. Bequests of the Bishop op Calcutta. —The late Bishop has left the following charitable bequests:— ('urates’ Aid Society (through ...

... the Protestant phrase—“ most enlightened and liberal principles’’ —used in the Rathvilly case. But not so thought our worthy Whig Commissioners, with the Rev. Dr. Graves, F.T.C.D., at their head. They declared, in the face of his express and solemn language ...

... partisans to sustain him, the Whig Government looked passively on while the Cork College was going to destruction. This is in reality the effect of the testimony of these Commissioners, every one of them a stanch Whig, and all particularly favourable ...

... -seekiog Lords L.. utenont of the Stuarts ; these also their tarn to dilletant fops the earlier Georges; these to the fear Whigs who went over with direct instructions to make capital, quoeunqne vi'Hlo, whether concession by agitation ; and these again ...

... youth and military promise and prospects, he has been cut off, to the inexpressible grief of his family and unmeroos friends.—A Whig of Wednesday. Orders hive been received the head-quarters of the Royal Engineers, Chatham, directing Lieutenant George Sackville ...

... proprietary, whom it will conducted in manner calculated to restore the high character which that once consistent and powerful Whig organ at one time enjoyed. Under the new management” it is promised that this journal will at once aasumc defined and important ...

... dissolution, which in that case, says the Herald, will be certain and inevitable. The last general election played ill for the Whigs ; in the next they will be altogether swept away. the journals of this morning contain articles touching on the confiscation ...

... g Repealer and the Castle Catholic,” the demagogue and the iects on which the mesmerism of the Whig icmiys be tried from Fitzwilliam to Fortcscue. The Whig toW was, in sad truth, at all times a miserable compromise, and one in which, as regards and able ...

... he thought the address could emanate from them. No doubt, there were differences of opinion betwixt the members; some were Whigs, some were Radicals, and, like himself, some were Conservatives; but he thought they could all unite admiration of his lordship's ...

... at all events upon point which will influence in the slightest degree the stability of the Government. Nevertheless, the Whigs are verv active in bringing their party as ranch together possible, and Lord Palmerston, even in Ins youngest days, never displayed ...