... 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 ...

... HOW THE PURE WHIGS MANUFACTURE VOTES. We are indebted to the Revising Barrister's Court, Totnes, for insight into the mode in which the Duke of Somerset manufactures votes for that borough. It is matter of notoriety that his Grace has always contrived ...

... Whig Legislation-Lohl Russell seems to think that England was never so great or so flourishing as she is now; and he attributes her growth in influence abroad and wealth at home to the wisdom of Whig legislation. Was it Whig legislation that gave the ...

... THE BUSY WHIGS. I remember saying many years ago that we were like bees working in glass hives, our proceedings in Parliament and everywhere were so open; but I have heard that bees in glass hives take the precaution to cover them up first with wax ...

... The Fenians. —In a third edition of Saturday's Northern Whig some revelations of the Fenian plans, disclosed at an examination of prisoners before the magistrates in Dublin, 011 Saturday, are detailed, and are of a horribly sanguinary character. the breaking ...

... may made so by express stipula- J tion, always having regard to all the surrounding circumstances. | Last session know the Whig Government attempted to over- j the Galway contract for conveying the mails to America, j by means of Committee the House ol ...

... ground for expecting that the result will be to disclose a genuine Whig majority. We certainly do not believe in the Conservative reaction. But we cannot help believing in the Whig decay. Every election since tho meeting of the present Parliament has ...

... O'Connell and his fellow offenders from the conviction obtained against them. At that time there was a considerable majority of Whig law lords, indeed Lord Lyndburst was the only one who had been promoted by the Conservatives. 'The Judges were summoned by ...

... for believed the description that a Whig was a tvrant in office and a traitor out of it, but lie did not think that' the Whigs designed any damage to the National Church. Hut the Liberal party was not made of Whigs. Lord I'alineiston, who was a good old ...

... Bowood, aud cut his head. On the following Tuesday he began to siuk, and never rallied after. His life the history of the Whigs during the present century. In youth (says the Times) he was the hope of the party, and in declining years he was the sage ...

... pleasant qualities as man, has become (as evil communication corrupts good manners) an arrant Whig Minister. He resembles in one respect hiß famous Whig predecessor of George the Second's time, Sir Robert Walpole, in his free use of the material mo ...

... offered to us, and must make our selection. Some people say there is difference now between Whig and Tory. Well—l don't quite believe that, though there are some Whigs very like some Tories; but in the two candidates that are now offered to you there is a ...