... increasing impatience, What are the Whigs doing, and when is their man to be brought out We find it is as difficult to answer these questions as the Gardener's Chronicle does to tell when the rain is coming. The Whigs are almost as totalizing as the weather ...

... result. the c Thetford case the facts are—lst, that Lord *• Fitzßoy is Whig; 2nd, that the Lord- Advocate is a Tory; 3rd, that the Mercury is c the Whig organ; 4th, that the Whig organ is supporting the Tory candidate. These are the facts. Surely this ...

... emergency. Whigs in office invariably die of contempt. There is no go in them—nothing to command respect—nothing to inspire sympathy. They belong to the provoking, fretting species wot won't go, either with hard words 'or soft. The genus Whig feeds ...

... not, woe be to them. This is all we have to say, but it means a good deal. The Mercury, we suppose, is the Whig organ. If so the leading Whigs are answerable for its calumnious falsehoods, and must pay the penalty. We 1 shall not pray that this vile abuse ...

... the advanced Liberals to do so, and did not feel himself at liberty to refuse 3 services to his fellow-citizens. The old Whigs, however at small private meeting of about fifty Liberals, carried a resolution to re-nominate the present members To such ...

... The effect would be that the Radical towns would return one Tory member, and Tory counties one Whig —that is, half-a-dozen Tories and half-a-dozen Whigs would get who otherwise could not. What advantage would the people gain from that? The truth appears ...

... of March to bring a bill for extending the borough franchise to persons paying a £6 rental. This is the measure which the Whigs proposed when they wanted to turn Lord Derby out, and dropped when they bad succeeded. It is a measure to which reformers ...

... ELECTION NEWS. Nothing of importance has transpired since our last respecting the intentions of either the Whigs or the Conservatives in Norwich. is confirmed that the former prefer Sir William Russell, and it is not unlikely that he will become their ...

... Tory Lord-Advocate to keep out the orthodox party Whig, Lord , is very odd that Whig 3 and ' Tories Thetford itself should unite to re- • turn a Whig. is very odd that Mr. Harvey, who, the Mercury tells us, is still of . independent politics, should select ...

... expectations of the Radicals, far beyond the calculating prudence of the Whigs, and very far the utmost concession which the Tories would have thought possible twelve months ago. The Whigs are as much discomfited as the Tories. They wish for a very limited ...

... negatived, the former was adopted. In the course taken Lord Russell we perceive, with deep regret, a too conclusive proof that the Whigs will not or cannot learn wisdom from any number of hard and bitter lessons. His lordship suggests that the revenues of the ...

... NORWICH POLITICS—WHATS DOING? We are utterly a loss to conceive what our Whig allies are doing or meditating. It may be that they are working quietly and arranging matters nicely. There certainly is a good deal of mystery in their non-appearance ...