... THE BUSY WHIGS. I remember saying many years ago that were like bees working §laes hives, our proceedings Parliament and everywhere were so open ; at I have heard that hoes in glass hives take the precaution to cover them first with wax, so that one can ...

... THE DOWNFAL OF THE WHIGS. The triumph of Mr. Gladstone's Budget, os far ns the true Whig party is concerned, may compared with the triumph achieved by Samson at the close of his existence. Nottnat we regard the Chancellor of the Exchequer having had any ...

... WHIG- TACTICS. TO THE EDITOR. Slß,— The Whigs, sore and savage at having tiieir delia- quences exposed in the House of Commons by Mr. Fer- rand, and knowing full well that the borough of Devonport, thanks to that most indefatigable and honounable member ...

... IRELAND AND THE WHIGS. THE present state of Ireland resembles no former period of her political history. Since the Reform Bill became law, the Whigs have for the most part possessed the government of that country. A great practical question arises, How ...

... WHIG INGRATITUDE. THE candidature of Lord AMBERLEY for Leeds, like that of the Hon. ROBERT W. GROSVENOR for Westminster, affords a curious illustration of the unscrupulous manner in which the Whigs endeavour to cajole the Radicals. Nobody is foolish enough ...

... enamoured of the Whigs, but that we dreaded the effects of a Tory administration in Ireland. Mr. M'KENxs, in justifying his vote which swelled the majority that led to the change we apprehended, has framed a long bill of indictment against the Whigs in reference ...

... THE STARTLED WHIGS. THE tenacity of Whig prejudice is very curious. There is far more sympathy between the true Conservative and the true Liberal, than between the Whig and the latter. One would think that modern progress would widen the Whig’s area of vision ...

... WHIG MODESTY. TO THE EDITOR. Bißj— At the Privy Council on Wedwredsy, three new lords lieutenant were sworn into office Cor the counties of Devon, Bedford, and Monmouth. They wore— 1. The Duke of Sam* rs*t, i cabinet varnistcr. 2. Earl Cowpcr, step-gr^ndaon ...

... WHIG PURITY. Surely, surely the Whigs act purely When they talk about it so demurely, When their journals all against bribery clamour, (Not always in the best of grammar) When Nineveh's noble hero, Layard, Boasts himself chivalrous as Bayard: Tories may ...

... WHIG DIPLOMACY. it is easy to see that the news from America promptly relieved the public mind, it is not so easy to make out why certain organs in the press have been so jubilant about Mr. Seward's concession. After all, what has the American Secretary ...

... WHIG FINANCIERS. THE Whigs have never been celebrated for their skill in finance, and a list of their Chancellors of the Exchequer is suggestive of respectable mediocrity. After their long exclusion from office, the post was filled in 1830 by a nobleman ...

... WHIG GOVERNMENT. TO THE EDITOR. • celebrated Roman was told to beware of the Ides of March, and our own statesmen should be cane/ respecting the 22d of this month, which has on sev era .„ marked occasions, been singularly fatal to Whig gover,', ments ...