... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... another who two years ago was incapacitated by illhealth is thought a necessity in the Home Department. The arrangements of the Whigs permit the infusion of no new blood into the Cabinet, but they endeavour to make amends by sending a baronet of erratic reputation ...

... good things, never does any. To what quarter, then, is this distracted country to look for guidance or good government? The Whigs are effete; the Liberals are in such delicate health that we may expect any day to hear of their having gone to Pau; the Tories ...