... THE MINISTRY AND THE COUNTRY. It has often been remarked of the Whig Government, that its performances bear so slight a resemblance to its promises before getting office as to perplex even friends to recognise the same parties their altered position. ...

... Several advanced Liberals, unconnected with the Whig coterie, might fairly expect to hold office such Administration. A place the Cabinet could not be refused to John Bright. Nothing improves pure Whig so much as temporary absence from official life. ...

... party, and are often in very bad taste and spirit. This is how one of them begins:— It's but mere illusion For a man to be a Whig. Their great mass confusion Would any brain fatigue ; They're rugged appearance, They slight all scripture clearance. With ...

... country has at last resolved on having no further shillyshallying in reference to this matter. Professed Tories and lukewarm Whigs—and there is no perceptible shade of difference between the two classes of politicians—are constantly telling us that the nation ...

... schools and erection of churches, and remarked that under Whig rule dissenters were to have liberty of conscience, but the poor churchman was supposed to have nothing at all. He told them that the Whigs would hold on as long as they could, but they must come ...

... before Cbarleeton, and that terrible battle betwen the land forces was progressing within sight of the city. The liiciimnud Whig contains Charleston despatches, dated the Bth mat., sUtiug that the people and troops were iu high spirits at the result of ...

... Bennett in Belfast.—This excellent is now fulfilling an engagement at the Theatre Belfast, and the local papers, the Northern Whig, Morning News, and Ulster Observer, speak of his formances in the highest possible terms of He has evidently made a great ...

... to Mr Gladstone's administration. This Mention has been atopic to-day at that rendezvous J* aristocratic and old-fashioned Whigs, Brookes's Club. Lord JoW ia not 6a ti s fied with the Ministry, more especially their Irish policy; and, Rowing the attacks ...

... begin the Session with. An appeal to the country was never more emphatically answered. Mr Disraeli, instead of dishing the Whigs, has most effectually dished his own party, for the oldest politician cannot recollect a period when the discrepancy between ...

... traditions be relied upon. Are these based upon any sound principle that will bear the test of reasonably discussion ? Is the Whig doctrine, the Radical ' or tne Conservative doctrine really true doctr>- ne in P ai 't or in whole ? For the first time in ...

... success at the bar of Springfield. In politics, to which, whilst following his profession, he paid great attention, he joined the Whig party, and was a warm supporter of Henry Clay. In 1846 he was elected to Congress, and continued to belong to it till 1849 ...

... e, V are Whiff boroughs, owned by leading Whig j, and it is to my mind very doubtful if the Tories y wielded those properties more corruptly than have. That every man has his price is a tr f j$ the Whig camp, the author of the phrase of the first ...