... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... UNADORNED WHIG JOB. act of the defunct Governmsit was the perpetration of a job—so pure and simple, that only the Whigs could have had sufficient cheek for its perpetration. It consists of the appointment • of Mr J. C. Brodie, the Whig Crown-agent ...

... becomog _deference . _The _CouranCs idea _ecema to be , _itt _, _becanaa _the _Whigs _very _properly offered _to n _« le _tlie Dean _a _JaSge , and _became he once _voted or a _'Whig rather than for _a Radical , _and _because [ _, ( iri _Cimphsll once remarked ...

... that some of your readers think that I am prejudiced against the Whigs, and that my last letter regarding them was unduly severe. I confess to an utter abhorrence of the very name of Whig ; and the reason is, that I think they have been the cause of the ...

... Derby ; and even that must skilfully manoeuvred by the Whigs to make tell. There has been no bill or measure much importance yet laid before Parliament the new ministry. In the House Lords the Whigs continue, with Lord Brougham's aid, to push forward two ...

... 'a Whig of the Edinburgh Review school to the last moment of her life; and she was old when she died, in her 89th year. Her delight at seeing Kossuth when past eighty, and travelling far to see him, was something wonderful. Oddly enough, warm Whig as ...

... party , or _a knot of Whig _aristocrats . A _Ministry which _Lord John' _Rusaoll and Earl Grey not only did notcnterbutditi not befriend could _scarcely be called a _' _* pure Whig _Mimotry , much lesa a _Ministry of the Whig ariatocracy . But come ...

... illustrations of a now termed Whigs, and their doings. The ppm= pproeration know little or nothing of the real nature of the Whig animal. At the commencement of the present century, when I was a young man, the party named Whigs were men who stood in the same ...

... whole people, electors and non-electors, with a few individual exceptions, being Whigs ; not the Conservative truckling Whigs of the present day, but staunch uncompromising Whigs, battling for the then now much needed measures of reform, watching jealous care ...