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EXTRACTS FROM THE OWL

... Aduellceike. Seldo)m right, though always vrilbng lie Was esselltially a Man of Letters: The type (though a Very small one) of a Whig states- man. He vas never known to blush at any blunder O nli~d Or acknowledge any error; Of middling talents and meddling ...

FANCY FRANCHISES

... Perhaps it will be well to contrast Lord JOHN'S simple bill of reform with Mr DISRAELI'S complex One CONSERVATIVE REFORM WHIG REFORM BILL OF BILL OF 1859. 1860. No disfranchisement. No disfranchisement. Uniformity of franchise Reduction of borough in ...

AN ELECTION SONG

... Oh, fie } it is not reasonable; Unwash'd artificers, be off! For you to vote were treasonable. Tories and mongrel Tory-Whigs They call themselves Conservative- Dogs in the manger, cross and blind, Of nought but self preservative, Proud Derby frowns ...

VARIETIES

... behind.' 5 Such cheering was never heard before at any ?? x gathering. 'There's learning for you,' say one. 'There t is no Whig in Congress, not Elarry Clay himself; that can talk Latin so well off-hand as our man does,' says 2 another. He is fit for ...

EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH

... must be wrong, And only Tear'em always must be right, right, right, There was neves such a Tartar, To nothing he gave quarter- Whig or Tory, nob or snob, he tackled a ;, all, al; And the battles that he ft In the great Westminster Pit, Would make the famed ...

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

... rf the Cinque Ports, Leader of the House of Commons, President of the Romsey Mechanics' Institate, part author of the Nent Whig tGuide, Prime Minister of Englaud ; and, to the closest observer, his ago appeared to range between thirty-five and tbirty-fiveland ...

EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH

... near- A poor farmer I 'd sooner a precious deal be Than a Prime Presmieer. c But what to me most strange appears Is, whether Whig or Tory, D He mostly reaps but scoffs and sneers, Instead O' praise and glory. r Party nigh all the peapers and slashun reviews ...

EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH

... FROMI PUNCH. DIZZY IN DIFFICULTIES. (BY A M!rsssca. OF T'fE1 CONTRY PIRTTY.) I tell 'ee what, mun, whether You're ?? or a Whig, The longest way to market is the way you drives a pig. If you makes any footmarks, they as follor3 'em 'ool find What zigzag ...

A DRIFTING STAR

... able to obtain respecting the grand processes of cosmical evolution which are in progress around us.-Syectator. The Richmond Whig is not at all pleased at the possibility of the election of Andrew Johnson to the Senate. Conceding his honesty, it contends ...

DANBY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

... agrieultocrista sirovold show that they were not a divided betly, soparatoill into hostile parities, one saying 1I am for lbs Whigs, and another I am for the Tories ;55 hbut when they ahoueld show that they were for tire cause of agriculture. (Hear.) Let ...

LITERATURE

... seriously to affect his profe3sional pros- pects than thus openly to have declared himself a Whig. Popular execration against those suspected of Whig- giEm was only exceeded by the fury evoked by the sus- picion of Jacobinism. Indeed, except with ...