... was provided, and, to complete the font ensemble, my father, who was determined Whig partisan, insisted on my wearing yellow waistcoat and breeches; yellow being the Whig colour, of which I was admonished never to be ashamed. A more certain mode of calling ...

... tenour of human conduct, and which Mrs Peyser felicitously describes as summat wrong in its own inside.— Northern Daily Whig. Heavy Bereavement.—Rarely does succession of family afflictions so close and so severe fall to he recorded as that which has ...

... weakness and embarrassment. We refer, of course, to Parliamentary Reform. On that, as on other tilings, it must be confessed the Whigs are no more sincerely concerned than the Conservatives. It is Lord John Russell's hobby to talk of Reform, and to promise largely ...

... have chosen Mr Pike representative. He is a true man; but there are in New Hampshire many persons who call themselves Whigs—are no Whigs at all, and better than disunionists. Any man who hesitates in granting and securing every part of the country its ...

... to notice how tenderly Lord John has dealt with the small boroughs. Not one of them is disfranchised. Those who thought the Whigs would be bolder than their rivals, in this respect, will disappointed to find them acting precisely alike. It is the interest ...

... institutions of the country. Most of all does it surprise us that this slight, this injustice to Bristol, should come from Whig Government. Many think Bristol has been too slavish, too supple its attachment to party. Behold now the reward. The city which ...

... 300,000, about which my Lord John cannot give any precise information ? Why is Bristol to be continually overlooked by every Whig Government, and areas not near so large or wealthy have additional members given them ? I would ask, where is the host of local ...

... Gladstone has shown disposition to discard them. As a rare implement for the disintegration and damage of a rival faction, the Whigs general have always been ready to praise and promote the matchless orator of our day, just as they were to flatter and even ...

... party claims in their selections to this honourable office, This js proved the curious that Tories always elect Whigs to vacant sees, and Whigs, Tories lest the profane should suspect either party of caring for votes in the House of Lords. As the clergy ...

... Western Counties—over that of the trading and commercial classes who form the strength of boroughs. What has Bristol done to the Whigs that she should be so treated ? A dreadful outcry would have been heard if another Minister had tried such a thing ; but, as ...

... dissolution was at hand, the ordinary stimulants failed to elicit any but the faintest signs of life. Disraeli overwhelmed the Whigs with laboured sarcasm, and Bright's tone was more coarsely menacing than usual; but ithey could scarcely catch passing notice ...

... for this (lit than paragraph which appears in an Irish contemporary. The following are the particulars as given the Northern Whig : We learn, from a private source of information, on which we can place every reliance, that on Wednesday last Mr Gladstone ...