... worth our while to inquire. Certain it is that no Whig official, high or low, has yet ventured to tell the country what his party is willing to do to obtain its confidence. There might be some hope of the Whigs if this silence was the effect of shame. We all ...

... ABUSE MR. BRIGHT. _ _, . -- - - Some warm friend of the Whig or Conserva- tive cause, it matters not which, should write treatise on the art of abusing John Bright. ts as irnportant to the Whigs as to the relies that Johla Bright should be abused, and ...

... beginning of the Whigs towards me. I never had any friendship for them ; I never was a follower of them; I have always been a Liberal, but not a Whig. Whigs now-a-days are Whigs and something more. I was something more when they were only ...

... Radical. And the more so after Mr. Jones describing, a short time back, his new friends, the Whigs, thus:- The Whigs are the political adventurers; the Whigs are the place-hunters; they are the men who keep their hands in the pockets of the people; they ...

... did not vote, and new claims c; since - ?? 106 -251 Whigs who voted at the last election 161 Do. who did not vote, and new claims since 57 -218 Gain to Whigs on old register - 33 v Total gain to Whigs from register of - a 1859 - ?? d ID addition to which ...

... 1I859, at Willis's Rooms, a reconcilia. tion was patched up between the whig leaders (then out of office) andthe various sections of the opposition. Ib Was then understood that the Whig magnates should forego theirmonopoly of place, and consent to the in ...

... few years ago, and who are certainly not Whigs. The Whigs as a party are in fact defunct, as the young msmebers just returned w]so looled along the Treasusy Bench on Tuesday, and failed to recognise a single Whig there, muist have discovered. They no doubt ...

... that their elevation to officedis merely the entrance of the thin edge of the wedge that will eventually drive Whig noble- men out of place. Whigs of the Russell school believe that we are going too fast; that those ancient institutions, which gave out-door ...

... pass tht the leader of a Govern- ment, ostensibly relying on the combined support of Whigs and Radicals, reilly held his position by~ a tacit understanding between Whigs and Tories, to which many of his nominal supporters very reluctantly sub- saitted. ...

... Conservative demonstration took place Colchester Wednesday night. Major spoke vigorously favour maintaining the old distinctions Whig and Tory. Captain Jervis made somo remarks war in America. Ilia speech was in favour of the right of secession, and the duty ...

... Tories, and in many instances more sO. Now, Sir Frederick Grey, the rejected of Dovonport, is politically a Whig-a thorough Whig, and nothing but a Whig. He believes it is quite right that the Go- vernment and emoluments of the tate should be c)n_ fined to ...

... transpire just on the eve of an election, in which Whig rule is hang- ing in a most uncomfortable balance of suspension. A certainty of the fact would doubtless strike off j some twenty or thirty Whig members, and the } loss of that number would prove ...