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SPIRIT OF PUNCH

... have been, And queerish bed-fellows I've seen, But never aught like this- Then swelled the wrath of Gladstone's tail- To Whigs and pries shall Progress quail ? And Stansfeld was the cry- But Clarendon upreared his head, His cigarette fung by, With ...

AS THE OLD COCK CROWS, THE YOUNG COCK LEARNES

... compass must swell, The more noisy the crowd are; Yet for Lords to throw dirt On the Peerage too bad I call- Lord Russell is Whig, Yiscount Amberley Radical: Goes-in for the masses, - - Would triust to the millions To tool their own drag Without Peers for ...

POLITICAL PROSPECTS

... The Conservatives are all alive; they have most energetic and efficient agents, and plenty of money. On the other hand, the Whigs are supine, listless, have no rallying point, and no agents worthy of the name. Neither are the Liberals to be depended upon ...

THE ACCEPTABILITY OF THE DIDACTIC NOVEL

... tionoften find it d~ifficultto graspandrcalise to them. selves 'the scenes and character which it describes. But -n infusion of Whig and Tory, of Church and Chapel, or of Manchester and Oxford, supplies just the avour and consistency which they require. Such ...

GLEANINGS FROM THE OWL

... Ay l there's the rulb For in that Opposition sleep some dream May come, when we have fairly shuffled off This weary eoil of Whigs, to give us pause; For who would bear the scorn of lukewarm friindh The taunts of foes, the goads of Radicals, The pangs of ...

THE EDINBURGH BANQUET,

... people, as the leaders of the Opposition never have and never would have exhibited. He has taken the very instrument by which Whigs and Liberals helped to win their brightest triumphs, and has made it the means of their discomfiture. He has raised his party ...

THE MAGAZINES

... 'broA 'lose of the ?? great gullf., H's 'blia th .'dii sjioti~i 'i ithe ' affai ;o the' -Alabaini, -'but't considers ,the- Whigs-'and 'Tories .are equally to .blame' for, the 'foreign policy. which has procured: the ill will , pr con- temapt of ahnsat ...

A REVIEW OF THE SESSION

... have not been filled by the supporters of the Government. Contrast the con-. duct of Sir R. Peel with the small coterie of Whigs. He found a school of statesmen who have handed his name down to this day; and he took them without reference to rank, fortune ...

AYRSHIRE CURLING SONG

... stanes spinnan. Wi' a vhii 'l and a Cllre)e tin they sit roaLn' tier tce. Then hurrah ! c. It's anl uneclilie story ?? beith Whig snd Tory Mlann ayc collyshaugy like dogs osre a bane; And a' denominactions ore seantin' in paticece, For na4l Kirk irillthole ...

THEATRE-ROYAL

... exer. tions for the regeneration of Italy-always the en. ?? hope of his life-procured him the intimacy and regard of the great Whig politicians of the day; and, though strongly opposed to the more violent Italian party, with whomhe always refused toscthis ...

THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

... now open is to discover some small borough which always returns Government men, either willingly or by the command of some Whig potentate, and offer the representative of said borough twinging good place to induce him to retire. This was done in the case ...