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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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

QUARTERLY REVIEW FOR JANUARY

... others, tr for the weli-known lines- , Vor a very small man with the To'ies Is a very great man with the Whigs.' e- But since he became the ' New Whig Guide' himself we have not heard of his pursuing this vein of pleasan- t try. ot 5S- al me, be be Lse ...

GRAND CONCERT

... refers has been real lyt with unititigated disgst. Tle whole thin, I.n is just in keeping with the rilaldry an1 pron , the Whig organ. For many years it has hell ci ridicule every good local CianlC andI every pul~i: L Wiho has thought for himself either ...

Literary Notices

... aggrieved whets he is called a Whig, and charged with W~hig liartialities. We find that be himself gloiied in the name. In one of his Edin- burgh addresses he speaks as follows: I look with pride on all that the Wh~igs have done for the cause of human ...

THE COURANT PERPETRATING A JOKE

... so far from the Whig organ desiring to . promote the. return of Mr M'Laren, it has, on- grounds best known to itself and; .he: cliaue at its back, done: its un- principled best to misrepresent and decry him ! ?? Of course, the Whig organ did; and in ...

SKETCHES OF BRITISH STATESMEN

... Peel and of GOlad- m stone; for Lord' Stanley, from the time he, left College, hau never been a Consirvative. Neither is he a Whig. Nor can he, I think, beset down| ti' as a Radical. It is ,quetionable indeed whether cc his views could' be embodied in any ...

LITERATURE

... , in' the article on! ~'lhe!Change' of' ?? of; Mr Gladstone's favourite,.measuie,,f Rifor,, and the -dowv~nfall of, .the Whig~ Admnistr~itbon?, the pol~itital winter o~f the ..Qaarterly doeye so~with s ome. misgivings. ( He is not iery'eureathat the ...