... evening paper, literally devoted to the old Whig party, announces that there is just now a in politics —we quote our contemporary's emphasis as well as his words. After the debates Mr. Bainks's Franchise Bill, we find no difficulty in giving credit ...

... looked at from the Whig point of view, on the eve of a general election Having long since abandoned all political faith, they .seek to riile into Parliament upon the political traditions their opponents They tell people that Whigs and Tories are alike ...

... many friends of progress, and cause a loss of several seats to the Liberal party. The Whigs will have uneasy time of the hustings next July, ami when a trimming Whig opposed a hearty and sincere Reformer, it is neit doubted which side the sympathies of ...

... for the Whigs. Young Mr. Cowper, brother of Earl Cowper, hardly expected to creep the bottom of the list, yet he was at the top of the poll, beating even Sir B. Lytton himself. The ladies of the Cowper and other Whig families, following the Whig traditions ...

... Peelite Conservatives cheered because they remembered Lord J. Russell's Edinburgh letter and the tardy conversion the Whigs ; the Whigs cheered because they gladly gave the credit to Mr. Cobden rather than to the Minister ; and tlve Protectionists cheered ...

... Bill, returns of all sorts are being showered in upon Downing Street, Tories are sharpening their cutlasses, alarmed old Whigs are half disposed to turn Tories, pamphleteers are aa busy as a certain person supposed to be in a gale of wind, and everybody ...

... throwing it out on a division. There was, he said, upon the Treasury Bench, next the First Lord of the Treasury, once a juvenile Whig, and now called an ancient Minister. his right sat one of his disciples, whom he loved [most dearly—[a laugh gentleman, who ...

... to obtain the support he must have, if the Government is to be adequately represented in the House of Commons! Whatever the Whigs may think of such a proceeding, there is nothing for it but to turn to the younger men who have no connection with aristocratic ...

... that country was alluded to. The unusual dullness of first night was relieved by a couple of smart sayings. Mr. Lono likened a Whig in office to an ugly dog well muzzled, and Mr remarked that Government too much inclined to go in partnership with Providence ...

... Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster to dispose of, with a seat in the Cabinet, if should think fit. Mr. .Bouverie is a Whig of family and ability, but he was one of the subordinate members of the first i'alinerston Government, who struck against ...

... as founded in the year 1088, that he is a Pittite, and that he has no objection to cooperate with the Constitutional Whig, whenever that interesting but rather mythical personage finds either that his party obligations admit, or the necessities ...

... by the same maxims, working mostly for the same ends, emulous of the like distinction, the Tories have even outstripped the Whigs in upholding a system of intervention, and in their devotion to that miserable fetish, the balance of power. Their orators ...