... if they were now to advertise for a pure throughbred young Whig they would have as much difficulty in finding one and rearing him as they would with an infant gorilla. (Much laughter.) The Whigs, like certain Eastern potentates, having no issue of their ...

... now a change had oome over the spirit of the dream. The electors of Ripon were no longer Tories, they were Whigs, and the reason was that a Whig nobleman was now the proprietor of Studley. (Laughter.) Now Lord de Grey was himself in favour of the ballot ...

... profession, by journalism, and was a reporter as well as theatrical critic on the staff of the Morning Chronicle —then an important Whig paper, the property of Perry, a Scotsman, whose sister was married to the celebrated Porson. To this part of his training Lord ...

... landlords. Moreover, there Is a pretty general opinion now-a-days that the difference between the modern Tory and the modern Whig Is very slight indeed, and that in some respects that difference is decidedly in favour of the former. There are not a few ...

... influence of office. The sooner they are rescued from it the better. The best political tonic that can be administered to the Whigs is to immerse them for a time in the cold bath of opposition. It always does them a world of good ; bracing their ntrves and ...

... A. Taylor, London, has accepted an invitation from the advanced Liberals of Leicester to contest the vacant seat with the Whig and Conservative candidates. Thej r constitute, viewed politically, a large majority of the Liberal party ; but the active ...

... deviated for one moment from that course, they would 1 see the edifying spectacle of the Whigs scrambling back > again into their seats ; and the moment the Whigs were in position a change would come over the spirit of their dream. (Laughter.) The ...

... together, however, our contemporary arrives at the conclusion that the Conservatives singly out-number Lord Palmerston and his Whigs by 61 votes, and that the noble viscount's tottering ministry is only propped up by 93 ultra-Radicals and 14 Peelites ...

... parties to this iiisidiou3 scheme. If they are silent now, the pretence of public apathy, which has been used by Tories and Tory-Whigs as a pretext for putting the whole question on one side, will seem to have some real foundation. Of this, however, we have ...

... milk-and-water dispatches, until she has lost much of her prestige for invention and daring. We have been hood-winked by a Whig oligarchy who have played into the bands of despots greatly to the curtailment of our influence abroad and well-being at home ...

... the dark, and can tell what manner of man his neighbour Hi Jyis It is blind man's heliday. You think you y e got hold of a Whig or a Radical, and after walk! =' with him some distance in the wrong direction you N out suddenly that he is a Tory, though ...

... to complain of, since her sire was only a Cheshire silk spinner ;—a reflection that should considerably affiict that Hidalgo Whig of putative pur sang, Lansdowne, seeing that the noble marquis had a wool-comber for a Petty grandfather, and that several ...