... Liberal Government These were hard facts. They were unpalatable Whig stomachs. But they must have them (laughter). There was income tax 5d in tbe pound under a Tory Government. Did not tbe Whig* come into office and tais* it 7d, and then to lOd, and then ...

... Fite, in room of the late Mr. Wemyss, took place the hustings Cupar. There was no oppostion to the return Sir Anstruther, the Whig candidate, his Kadical and Conservative opponents having withdrawn from the field. The proceedings were, consequently, conducted ...

... recent speech to his consti* tuents was extremely important in the present position of public affairs. It is not the speech of a Whig. It is not the address of a Macaulay, comforting the country for an Administration which did nothing by reminding them what ...

... that, if they had left the Whigs only because they did not want the franchise reduced, they would have been back again long ago? Has it never occurred to him that there is something distasteful to many gentlemen” in that Whig hunger for place which is ...

... disciplined. Tbe various parties will submit to the changes demanded by circumstances ; the coalition of Whigs and Radicals will perhaps break up ; the Whigs become more Conservative and tbe Tories more Liberal; all demarcations will be wiped away, and new ...

... —let me, least, as 4 An Old Whig/ express convictio —that it was subject infinite regret for true adherents of Whig principles (which I take synonymous with principles of Moderation in political action) —that ull the Whig wisdom bestowed on paper, and ...

... something peculiar that be was one of tbe very few Tories who followed the example of the young Whigs of that generation in sitting feet of tbe great Whig Professor of Moral Philosophy and Political Economy. It certainly does not appear that be entered ...

... LORD RDSSBLL' The Saturday Review, article devoted to the Whig leader, says :—**Lord Rowell has got into head 8 that the business of the leader the Opposition is tA alwava apringina a succession of little niinea under tho' teol of the Ministry. It » leader ...

... rejected from Whig hands for a quarter of a century, was passed at length by a Tory Minister, under strong pressure from without—unaccompanied by those other healing measures with which the wiser policy of Pitt, who therein remained a good Whig, would, in ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE GLOBE. Sir, —Whether Whigs or Tories are in office next year, the Government will be required to bring in Reform bill. The Conservative party are pledged to support rating instead of rental, as the standard of the suffrage ; while ...

... But every recruit to (he*e ranks is a deserter from the colours under which the Whigs have gained (heir ancient victories. The progress of events has brought the Whigs and Tories to pretty nearly the same standing-ground. Bsyond them the advocates of ...

... education its present development has besn mainly bail! np under the guidance of Whig Ministries, and it is therefore with a sort of amused surprise that tbe public finds tbe Whig Minister par excellence, proclaiming in set form the faults and the short-comings ...