... 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 ...

... 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? ...

... 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 ...

... at the last general election, by the Nation, when it counselled the Irish constituencies to return Whigs in every case where the contest lay between a Whig and a Tory, on the false pretence, that they were bound by the policy of lude• pendent Opposition ...

... of the party in check, and they do not think it is so with the Whigs. We happen to know that some of the most eminent leaders of Liberal opinion in Ireland have remonstrated with both Whig and Tory Governments on the pusillanimity of shrinking from a conflict ...

... June, 1834, was against the admission of the Dissenters into the Universities; and in he strongly opposed the proposal of the Whigs to substitute a fixed duty of Bs. upon foreign com for the sliding scale. But when Sir Robert Peel deserted Protection Mr. ...

... he returns ground down to a lively official of fifty. There is an astonishing versatility in the ancient Whigs. All places are alike to all Whigs. For example—Sir CHARLES WOOD has held, amongst other places, that of Chancellor of the Exchequer, First ...

... English Ministry—it might ultimately be of English power—and this result, however to be deplored, is perfectly natural. The Whigs boast of the policy that the people of every country should be allowed to choose their rulers, true to their interests; their ...

... asked the moderate Whigs of South Lancashire throw overboard their princi) les, which were for the union ef Church and State, and adopt Mr. Cheetham, who was for the separation of Church and State (c'.eers). They were told the moderate Whig arty and the League ...

... td an smasion in the to that h s tr am Cbd b te e & lE., ; this . ' : shams an ot DlitiAla. to liirtktdszty swam to, a eM I Whig to to the and a Ought 1 in (he It is also frequently by from the ' City. T.prisa sad all details may be known em application ...

... Ministry, who are so completely under the influence ot Lord Shaftesbury. We •hall obtain much more from the Tories than from the Whigs, and 1 hope yon will assist with your vote return the Lord Mayor. The favour of answer will oblige, dear Sir, yours truly, ...