... obtained. The ballot, it must be confessed, has never hitherto been a very popular question in the House of Commons. Many Whigs disliked the idea of secret voting as much Tories. Hence Mr Berkeley, the senior member for Bristol, found it rather uphill ...

... the Whig is still I Whig and the Tory a Tory, albeit be masquerade in Radical raiment. Tbe.resolution proposed Earl served to indicate the hostility of the Whigs to a Conservative measure, and Earl Russell could not hide his chagrin that the Whig monopoly ...

... the Tories been gradually inoculated with more liberal sentiments and drawn the Whigs ? The true solution the matter, we believe, lies in the facts that the leading Whigs have become tinged with Conservatism they advanced years, and that the Tories, driven ...

... Worth, talent, honesty denying except in self, Believe him not he may be purchased ; His price is pelf. W hene'er a statesman, Whig or Tory, Talks loud and lon¢g Of serving conntry for the glory Vith yearning strong ; Needing no to regard him ; Look 1n his ...

... value of this stick may be supposed, when it is stated that the remainder of the tree is value in timber for £10.— Northern Whig. ...

... military havre etire:. sidence of Mr F. D. Finlay, of the Nortiern Whig, was severely damaged by the mob; and it was only the presence of a stron ig force of police that saved the office of the Whig fi rom the outrageous atten- tions of the populace. Mr Finlay ...

... statesmen who seceded from the Government rather than be parties to policy dictated the patriotic objects of ‘dishing the Whigs,’ and securing an ephemeral party triumph. I look forward confidently to the time when the present jugglery shall have ceased ...

... majority. Some more defections of the the representatives “great Whig Houses” are reported. This is not unlikely, as Reform *ss certain to break up the great party known as ** Palmerston Whigs.*' Although the Government measure may survive the attempted sushi ...

... the apparent fusion of parties hax arisen from the circumstance that the policy of the Whigs in office bas differed very from that of the Cuuservatives in The Whigs promised inuch when they went iuto office, and men who have been observant of public affairs ...

... conduct the Ministry in entering race of competiti'oU with tho Whigs, and in away burdens'and iuipediments all tire old traditions- and characteristics of the great Conservative party. None tlie Whig leaders-, assidletj the Government so effectively the Earl ...

... not see what other course he can adopt than surrender, unless he desires. the immolation of himself and army. The Richmond Whig, which has already been converted into a Union paper, states that the evacuation of the aty had been progressing for a month ...

... rising rapidly into power, and sweeping the last of the ancient Whigs from the Treasury Benches into the ranks of the Oppr»sition. The similarity of opinions and prejudices among the elder Whigs and the Conservatives has, within recent years, occasioned no ...