... WHIG FOREIGN POLICY. It is one of the disadvantages incidental to our institutions, that a foreign policy which should be sufficiently profound to achieve the object desired can scarcely ever be adopted, because it would not be understood by the nation ...

... division— avowedly a party one, and one upon which the predominance was staked—three-fourths of the Irish members voted of Whigs or Tories in the councils of the Crown confessedly against Lord Palmerston and with the lieutenant of Lord Derby, while of ...

... THE EMERALD LOST TO THE WHIGS. Honest politicians should rejoice and make glad, for really it would seem that the last hours the Whigs are numbered. Friends, though best and truest, fall from them like water, and in the sharpest stress of their d ...

... measure of Reform. Can he be called Whig Are Messrs. Milner CiiL>- and Gilpin Whigs or Gladstone, Sidney Herbert, and Carlwell! Not one of them. Why, the Cabinet, from the highest the lowest, it would vain look for the true Whig, notwith-tHhdinth» various politics ...

... stroug enough even for the purposes of its Whig masters ; nor could such Whig tactics long escape being out-manoeuvred by the major portion the Liberal party. And to what quarter would the Grosvenor Whigs look for success when sent back to their co ...

... WHIG ELECTIONEERING EDINBURGH. A meeting of the Edinburgh Independent Liberal Committee was held on Thursday last. few days previously a meeting the Whig Committee had been held, at which, if rumour be true, it was resolved to make an effort to recover ...

... THE SOBER SADNESS OF THE WHIGS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE INTELLIGENCER. Sin,— Mr. Baines and his friends seem quite scandalised that the Conservatives should have descended to the mean and despicable device of issuing squibs 1 The extreme gravity of the ...

... ?? OF WHIG AND TORY PEERAGES. . which has been made against the Conservative Governments making an undue proportion of peers admits very decisive answer. Mr. Disraeli, Lord Derby, and Sir Robert Peel held alt gether for nine and two months, and created ...

... WHIGS KEEP MOVING. Keep moving, says Coventry; Keep moving, says Tamworth. Such we take to be the sense expressed by these Liberal constituencies. It is keep moving, and not notice to quit, which is different; for we fancy that the hottest Tory ...

... the year 1835, the fact is notorious that its most rapid augmentations have invariably taken place under Whig-Radical auspices, and that the Whigs and Radicals are, therefore, solely to be blamed. We took occasion, some time since, to point out that, for ...

... THE NEW LEADER OF THE WHIGS. From the Review.) Mr. financial speeches have lately be- come singularly puzzling, not to say provoking. In private conversation is so tiresome as an in- termixture of hints and nods, and intimations that the speaker has something ...

... WHIG JOBBING IN PLACES In the matter of jobboi’y the Whigs follow the example of the preacher, who said—“ as I tell you, not I do.” Ji-bbery is the very element in which they lire, albeit they are constantly sounding the praises of retrenchment. Statisticians ...