... 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 ...

... the last nine years, went out first; Corporate Reform went next; Church-rates and all the other great Whig Opposition cards showed nowhere in the Whig Ministerial programme. The Government were cautious: other Governments before them had broken down from ...

... 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 ...

... PALMER one day, Sir R. PEEL another,—each being about as acceptable to the mass of the Whig party as the introduction of a cat to a cage of canary birds. The Whig § naturally complain that on them rests the onus—not a small one—of propping up a shaky ...

... admirably veped in nearly every aepartnlent of Government, was deputed tn the only one of wilicl} he -was Wholly ignorant, The old Whig principle of placing round men in square hales is familiar to us all. Like pegs so inserted they would at least stand firm ...

... 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 ...

... WARDEN be To hear the Cinque Ports townsfolk cheering; Glad too the CHANCELLOR, if he Succeed in his electioneering. Yet of the Whigs, their joys amid, One painful thought will take possession: Surgit amari aliquid How shall we last another Session ? • ---Jel/A ...

... Aberdeenshire ; and Cork county. (excepting Wilts at the last moment) were severely contested; all had previously returned Whigs of note and station: all this year returned Conservatives. At Tynemouth, Mr. HODGSON replaced the Peelite, Mr. TAYLOR; at Longford ...

... WOOD'S language about Church-rates is an excellent example of that unconscious duplicity which has now become engrained in the Whig party. They don't want to hurt our institutions, but they must have Radical support; and between these conflicting rules of ...

... comet. As it happens, slavery first became rooted in America during the Whig supremacy in England; while, as is very well known to any student of the eighteenth century, the Whigs, and not the Tories, were the first English Protectionists. If Mr. Cheetham ...