... sympathies, and great talents, i would have been an ornament to any Ministry, and j when he is impartially compared with the Whig I and Tory scions of noble and influential families who attain high offices in the Government mere force of family position ...

... distinctions, but we have now a class of politicians who are Neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring, Nor Tories they, nor Whigs, nor this, nor that, Nor birds nor beasts, but just kind of bat. Have the compilers of these names taken care that the friends ...

... intimate terms. They will insist that the two countries should be ever fraternising and embracing. It is a trite saying, tbat Whigs build up stone walls to knock their heads against. The present position of affairs is an apt illustration of the fact. A little ...

... of the mind a more excellent thing than the bread that perisbeth.” After the peddling budgets we have had of late years from Whig financiers—the Barings, Woods, and Lewis’s—it is inexpressibly refreshing to see our commercial system and finances entrusted ...

... might thereby provoke from certain of tbe palace members of tbe cabinet, tbe author of all mischief— as the Stafford House Whigs love to call him— bold out tbe Bomise of active support from bis old allies of the sncbester school. Mr. Cobden agreed to become ...

... indigna- tion. For what is the whole thing, but an audacious party move, having' for its sole object tbe present relief of our Whig rulers from a slough of embarras- ments out of which nothing but a coup ot so despe- rate a character, as this Budget expedient ...

... credible, and un- til we saw that the outs bad actually tripped up the hesls of Lord Derby's government, we really gave our Whig opponents credit for something better than that. We did them undeserved honor ; for, as we see, they have unreservedly thrown ...

... was Whig ©hindering, in the equalisation the timber duties, that brought out tbe Canadi- rebellion of 1858-9 ; and suggests what must »c .* feeling of our countiymen who have emigrated 0 Canada on finding how completely the Budget ?? present Whig government ...