... e No. 431. —VoL. IX. r4e Vrtsz. THE BARREN WHIGS. patient is dying fast: he is almost gone. The Whigs cannot perpetuate their race; they are illustrating very opportunely Mr. DARWIN'S discovery of the law of natural selection; their species is disappearing ...

... is merely replaced by the Whig Mr. Wood. Mr. Wood, (Whig), 5,640; Lord-Mayor Cubitt (Conservative), 5,168 —majority, 472. Selkirkshire, Wednesday.—Lord Henry Scott (Conservative), 158; Hon. W. Napier (Whig), 136; majority, 22. Tamwoeth. —The Eight Hon ...

... Peers' House, and we Will make Willy Cubitt our City's M.P.! Come fill our cup, come fill up our can ! Despair, ye false Whigs, ye'll ne'er carry your man! Keep all your eyes open, ye'll see what ye'll see : Old London's Lord Mayor shall be London's ...

... Henry Scott, Conservative, over Mr. Napier, the Whig- Radical. To a certain extent, this is a Conservative gain, because although the former member professed Conservatism, he invariably voted with the Whigs and Radicals on questions of moment. Another arrival ...

... few, one change still wanting to complete the symmetry of the whole move. Why does the Tory Premier tarry among the Whigs, when the Whigs are deserted of all men,—when even their courageous chief has lost faith in their sinking fortunes, and has escaped ...

... ARD COBDEN—THEODORE CHANNING. CHANNING. As you have come to the conclusion that there is not .much difference now between Whigs and Tories, may I ask what effect that assimilation is likely to have upon the st a te of parties in the House of Commons? ...

... tends rather to tbe Peelite section of the Cabinet than to the Whig or the advanced Liberal ; but there are questions on which he may be as advanced as any Liberal, or as Whig- gish as any Whig that ever sat in that arm-chair at Brookes's from which old ...

... Johnnie, the best Whig of a' ! O dull will the House be on Foreign Affairs, And duller puir Johnnie --they've kicked him up-stairs. O Palmer-ton, why did ye send him awa' ? We're weary for Johnnie, the flower o' them a' ! Though Johnnies a Whig, yet he isna* ...

... LIBERAL PRETENSION. None more thoroughly than the Whigs appreciate the valoe of a good electioneering cry. There is, therefore, the more significance iv the notable, and certainly amusing change which has come o'er tbe spirit uf their election addresses ...

... not usual amongst parties that have long retained possession of political power; yet the explanation is not difficult. , The Whigs never forgotten their origin. They are the descendants of the great Houses, of the great potentates who came in with the Revolution ...

... another, that 'there is nothing like leather.' You say the strength of the Liberal party in London is composed of the old Whig party, zealous Churchmen, and the Dissenters. You then charge it upon the foimer that it acts without taking the wishes of ...

... indecent, if not absolutely unconstitutional, to perpetuate the system which has converted tbe Metropolis of the Empire into a Whig close borough, and to make, as far as possible, Mr. Wood's return secure. they bad confined themselves to fair fighting, we ...