... transpire just on the eve of an election, in which Whig rule is hang- ing in a most uncomfortable balance of suspension. A certainty of the fact would doubtless strike off j some twenty or thirty Whig members, and the } loss of that number would prove ...

... acquiesce in the monopoly of administration by a few great Whig families; that Reform and Libe- ralism are not mere pass-worcte invented to faci- litate the admission of scions of three or four Whig ducal houses into the high offices of State. Of course ...

... fruit that was forbidden her? There were Whigs and Tories, asnow, 150yearskgo,and advantage wasalwaystaken when a woman was reigning. It was so in Queen Anne's days. Who took advantage of that poor woman but the Whigs? Tho Radical papers had within the last ...

... compliance with his own view of the necessities of his position, he proposed to offer high office to several members of the Whig party and even to certain members of Lord Kussell's Govern- ment. He should, therefore, have to ask from his own sup- porters ...

... middle age, that he became M.P. for Lis native town. Mr. Baines, senior, was a Whig, for the Whigs abolished the Test and Corporation Acts, the Whigs made Leeds a borough, the Whigs made rtlr. Baines an M.P., and the present M.P. for Leeds still retains that ...

... much doubting the veracity of the comparison made by his opponent between the old Whig and the new, and bluntly asking the question for the peeple's solution, if the Whig party have been lukewarm in the cause of reform. Again, Liberal members in the House ...

... He professes to be a moderate Conservative. The other candidates were Mr. Skipton, moderate Whig, and Mr. Greer ultra Liberal, a Radical from the start. The Whig nowhere on the poll, and thenceforward it was a gallant race between Messrs. M'Cormick and ...

... Administration need not have so much to do with the peerage. It was also objected that the Government contained too many Whigs. The Whigs had a hereditary taste for office, If they had not a hereditary right to it. Those who look at the Treasury Benches next ...

... The Whigs, they say, have now no head of their own. If this be the case, their career will soon be ended for it is difficult to see how a wig can exist over two years without a head DUNVILLE & Co., BELFAST, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world ...

... man Friday—as the Whigs had irreverently nicknamed Sir Charles. The relationship of the latter to the Whigs was shortly to become more agreeable. Lord Howick went up to the House of Lords, in the room of his father, deceased. The Whigs were out of office ...

... Bouverie William Brand, M.P. for Lewes, is an announcement of no little importance in a party sense at this junoture of politics. Whig whippers-in must, of course, get tired of their work like other persons, and covet a comfort- able retirement at a convenient ...

... show the licence of the press, Quotes a passage from the Knoxviile Whiff re- specting Attorney-General Mack. The editor of the Whig says:— We took a look at him, and we don't hesi- tate to say that in his countenance we could see mingled the virtues of the ...