... parliamentary or financial reform. At that time the most liberal whigs were far more conservative than any member of the present government; but a new party arose the Commons, and made the whigs radicals, and, to all appearance, the conservatives, influenced ...

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... THE WHIG LAMENT. Air, —Exile of Erin. L /Performed with great applause at the Assembly Rooms, Leith, Monday, Dee. 20. There lectured in Leith a sage Whig politician, His sconce, wise and learned, sad visions did fill— As sadly he wailed o'er bis fallen ...

... into the Whig ranks, it is by means easy to perceive how the conflicting tendencies of the inferior Inminarics are to be harmonised. The Whig orators are half Rusaellite, half Paimerstonian j nicely poised in interest and disposition. With Sit Charles Wood ...

... {From the Belfast Whig.) LINEN. In Ballymena, on Saturday, there was fair supply of goods, and, as the demand was rather dull, no advance was obtained on late rates. Armagh market was also duller; prices unchanged. Lurgan market was very small, diapers ...

... A WHIG JOB. An outgoing government has hitherto been chary of appearing to forestall the patronage of their successors, or to fasten their supporters on the country. With honourable statesmen a sense of delicacy would dictate each a course. The Whigs, ...

... IGNOMINIOUS DEFEAT OF THE WHIG CABAL. Room there I Room in the madhouse Room for those who have gone down into the mud and eaten dirt 1 Room for the united rumps of all the old Whig parties! Room for Palmerston, room for Russell, and, above all, room—a ...

... Liberal Party regard the Whig Connection was wholly without foundation. We admit that is a very shocking state of affairs. We can almost sympathise the indignant exclamation of Sir VV. Hayter. Things are come to a pretty pass when Whig cannot wallop his own ...

... reformers of 1830? Not seventy men in Parliament. They made up the Whig majority. Ifter 1832 they numbered a hundred and fifty, and the political organs of that day exhibited the Whigs petitioning the Radicals for alms, and praying not only for support ...

... 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 ...

... WHAT DO THE WHIGS THINK? Tea Whig journals are, el eoerse, loud and emphatic in their prophecies of a short reign, and not a merry one, to Lord Derby. But what do the Whip themselves thinks( Lord Derby's prospects on the one hand, and their own on the ...

... WHIG AND TORY FORTY YEARS AGO. (From the Glasgow Gazette.) _ In the year 1821, violent Tory newspaper was published in this city, yclept the Sentinel. It was the fellow of the infamous Beacon, published also about tiie same time in Edinburgh, but abandoned ...