... emoluments. But the Whigs are in difficulties. They feel that political power is slipping out of their hands. They are, therefore, about to develope their principles; and Lord AMBsiEReLEY's article is apparently intended as the key-note of a Whig crusade against ...

... contemporaries is the disappearance of another illustrious namefrom the roll of Whig nobility,-a name that carries back the memory to those palmy days of party politics when Whigs and Tories only contended for political ascendancy, when country gentle ...

... this he has been opposed by both Whigs a and Tories. He sees that this plan is impossible; and is he-is therefore now proposing a compromise with the C Whigs against the Tories, with the hope of course of is leading the Whigs sooner or later into the adoption ...

... exceptions being on the Whig side, as was natural they should be. In East Norfolk that great Whig landlord, the Earl of Leicester, issued a circular to his tenantry directing them, in very dictatorial terms, to vote for the Whig candi- dates, of whom his ...

... that an eesaylat'bf no ordinary brilliancy had arisen to instructo and amuse the reading pubhlic. Ere long the leaders of the Whig party, ini recognition of his, intellectual superiority, aiiliointea Lord, then Mr. Macaulay, a conmirnsioner of bank. rpo;atin ...

... had a Whig Government in office, carrying out under the leadership of Lord PALMERISTON the policy of the Earl of DEiUmy, with the nominal support, if not alss the sympathy, of all parties except the powerless faction of Mr. BRIGHT. We have now a Whig Government ...

... Totnes,probablyis derived from the factthatEngland' ' FirstNavalLordhas converteditinto a pocketborough in the interest of the Whig party, and that in the pro-: cess of such conversion Conservative tenants have been ejected under instructions from ducal agents ...

... for the great Whig leaders of the past. He believes they were all either oligarehs or poltroons. The explanation is very simple. It is this. Neither the Tories nor the Whigs of the present day hold the principles of the Tories or Whigs of the past in ...

... those vast armaments which de have spread such alarm and uneasiness through all the S o countries of E urope. NE Aosonazra l Whig Whipper-In has been sent off to the Colonies. This is not, perhaps, a very extraordinary piece of intelligence to those who ...

... your projects pursue, And this noble Idea keep ever inview; Let but Nambers and Noise the ascendancy gain, And then both ~Whigs and Tories, on Sailsbury Plain, Will lie Down, down,-all of you down! lllackwood . ...

... endorsing the Ministerial policy just at a tioo when everybody else was protesting against it. And then why lose a vote ? Have the Whigs ever shown such consideration, and have they not ruthlessly scouted every proposal for the representation of minorities ? Although ...

... has wrested the representation of the borough from the hands of the Whigs. The battle of Conservatism and Whiggism has been fought out in Devonport with everything in favour of the Whig nominee, and the result is that Devonport adds her name to the long ...