... middle age, that he became M.P. for Lis native town. Mr. Baines, senior, was a Whig, for the Whigs abolished the Test and Corporation Acts, the Whigs made Leeds a borough, the Whigs made rtlr. Baines an M.P., and the present M.P. for Leeds still retains that ...

... He professes to be a moderate Conservative. The other candidates were Mr. Skipton, moderate Whig, and Mr. Greer ultra Liberal, a Radical from the start. The Whig nowhere on the poll, and thenceforward it was a gallant race between Messrs. M'Cormick and ...

... man Friday—as the Whigs had irreverently nicknamed Sir Charles. The relationship of the latter to the Whigs was shortly to become more agreeable. Lord Howick went up to the House of Lords, in the room of his father, deceased. The Whigs were out of office ...

... show the licence of the press, Quotes a passage from the Knoxviile Whiff re- specting Attorney-General Mack. The editor of the Whig says:— We took a look at him, and we don't hesi- tate to say that in his countenance we could see mingled the virtues of the ...

... es in Whig legislation. Then, as to Legal Reform, their desire for it is suffi- ciently evidenced in their pertinacious opposition to anything of the kind proposed last year by the Con- servative Ministry. What really useful step have the Whigs taken ...

... members of the Upper House from giving that due deliberation required by measures of public importance. Further, too, the Whigs are espe- cially to blame for their flashes at legislation—attempts to pass measures which they have no sincere and deter- ...

... that deliberation which is so essential on many of the important qiltestions submitted to it. Really, in the hands of the Whigs, legislation is become quite a farce, as we shall presently have to show, by the manner in which they have passed through this ...

... the bar of Spring- field. In politics, to which, whilst following his profes- sion, he paid great attention, he joined the Whig party, and was a warm supporter of Henry Clay. In 1846 he was elected to Congress, and continued to belong to it till 1849 ...

... any factious misrepresentation. ! This has -alwasbeen the'eourie of a Conserva- tive opposition: it wouild be well if the Whigs, when out of office, would follow their example; but when on the benches to: the left of the speaker, they 'nevde stop to consider ...

... the tender ground on which they tread, and that if the W'higs now fall, it will be for ever —that there would be no hope of resuscitation for them. The country is pretty well disgusted with Whig chicanery and misrule; there will be no more botching for ...

... statement that two of the sons of the Duke o f Buccleuch have become members of the catholic Church is contradicted. The Northern Whig gives currency to a rumooB that Mr. Gladstone has withdrawn his name from; the Carlton Club. We understand that it is likely ...

... in, and the reforir Ministry were ingloriously driven from power. How ever, the principle of political reform once admitted Whigs and Tories have alike endeavoured to make political capital out of it. Last year Mr. Disrael brought in a Reform Bill; this ...