... 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 ...

... 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 Gladstone has withdrawn his name from; the Carlton Club.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 ...

... and vigorously, and the nation will applaud them. It is the beginning of the end that we witness in the discomfiture of the Whigs in the.practice of their own principles. Going back to the Reform era of 30 years ago, who so loud as they for economy and ...

... those sordid influences which Are so much deprecated in the present body. As the former measure was such a beau ideal with the Whigs 48 to lead them to consider it a final one, how comes it 'that they attempt such a revolutionizing of the old con- stituency ...

... ministry composed as it is of men of all political shades—the semi-Conservative, the tergiversating aristocratic Premier, the Whigs Lord John Russell and Sir G. C. Lewis, and the ultra-Kadical Milner Gibson, the bosom friend of John Bright t If they have ...

... Liberals. Man never is, but always to be blest, is somewhat truer than the realization of Whig promises yet if one would allow oneself to be satisfied with Whig promises, one might be as happy as he in quest of that happiness which is ever within reach ...

... still flourishing in her villa at Hampstead, aud is now in her hundredth year. The late L ird Mscaulay was the third great Whig statesman who had commenced a history of the Revolu- tion of 1688, and had faffed to finish his task. A pure, generous, aud ...

... Bill, and the Church Rates Bill, and we know not how many more about to follow, it must be manifest to every one that the Whigs are excessive bunglers at legislation, and that the Coalition Cabinet is losing caste-the probability being raised that it ...