... WHIG FAILURES An extraordinary notion is singularly prevalent just now, that ?? affairs both at home and abroad could not be successfully carried on, if the country were to be exposed to the calamity of Earl RusseU's retirement from office. How such an ...

... / whig pu_mr. Surely, -rarely the Whigs act purely When they talk about tt so demurely, When their louraali all against bribery clamour, (Not always ln tiie best ofgrammarj When maeveh's noble hero. La yard, Boasts himself chivalrous as Bayard ; Tories ...

... our readers to determine ; as in this case their inconsistency touches us not-nor the Whigs either. It is very remark- able, however, that on every occasion since Whig mewoers (if they remain such) voted for the expul° siou o. a Conservative administration ...

... THE LAST WHIG VICTIM. When the Israelites of old committed a crime they sacrificed a scape-goat. The fashion is by no means obsolete. The Israelites of the Nottingham Town Council, having committed several crimes and mis- demeanours, aud having done worse ...

... That the finances of England are in a perilous condition has penetrated the dense crania of even the Whig-Radical members who support Lord Palmbbston. They are sign- ing a communication to the Premier, written in the ex- quisitely bad English which ...

... Coppers pob Cobdbn ! The gentleman whom our sagacious Whigs think capable of negotiating a treaty cannot aianage has own aflhin. The Timet, which has always landed Mr. Cobden, on Friday last treated him with an insolent pity which must have annoyed him ...

... penalty of ejectment for recording honest votes in his favour. Aa a Whig succeeds a Whig at Totness, this disappointment is no loss to the Conservatives ; but as a Conservative succeeds a Whig at Southampton, that is a clear gain to the Constitutional party ...

... the Reform Bill, — though the Whigs themselves have much to answer for in driving him to it But on this occasion there is only a plausible excuse for the Whig Duke's expression of affected indignation. We must tell the (Whig) Peers roundly, says the Telegraph ...

... don't care whether a candidate is Whig or Tory, so long aa he is respectable. Now the distinction between a Whig and a Tory is not local or accidental : it ia universal and permament. Plato was a Tory : Aristotle was a Whig. If a man's Wbiggism or Toryism ...

... irrespective of party considera- tions. Since 1830 the Whigs have conferred 110 peerages, while their opponents have granted ouly 22. Though the Conservatives have created no dukedoms nor marquisates, the Whigs have conferred three of the former and five of the ...

... a great one, and indicates so gtartling a change of public opinion in a commercial borough, that it may be regarded by the Whigs as a n untoward event. Coventry has not returned a Conservative since the passing of the Reform Bill, till the election last ...

... Constitutional and 8 to the Whig party. But inasmuch as by this process the Constitutionalists lose 38 seats, and the Whigs and Democrats only 25 seats, the balance of loss and gain upon the amalga- mated boroughs will be : — Whigs and Constitutional. Radicals ...