... when the Whigs cease to represent progress, they cease to represent anything but placemen. If there to be progress, then the Whigs arc in the wrong place. But there can be standing 1 still this active activecountry, and therefore when the Whigs halt, the ...

... THE WHIG-RADICAL PRESS ON THE SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION. (From the Daily Netcs), South Lancashire has nobly justified the confidence of the great mixed party of modified liberals, who, as we have lately heard, meet on the common ground of Palmerston ...

... difficulty with which our Whig-Radical contemporaries have had to contend. One section attributes the defeat to Mr. having the damaging support of Mr. Bright, whose extreme notions are not palatable to respectable men of Whig principles; the more advanced ...

... contested election in South Lancashire ; nor do we think they ever would have been successful in contest, simply between Whig and Tory. The Whig possession of the representation of that Division of the county, was exceptional, arising from special circumstances ...

... of talk, I will give a compenj dious account of certain proceedings relative to the Noith American mail service. When the Whigs went out of office in 1858, they left upon the books of the Treasury a minute to the effect that the time had come when it ...

... crusade against the Church. That is not the way to make political capital for our party. Mr. Gladstone has many enemies in the Whig ranks, and there is nothing they like better than to find his friends showing themselves openly as enemies of the Established ...

... alternative. I find, as I get older that I am lealnina - to be almost as much ofa trimmer as ifl had been born and bred a downright Whig, . _ COBDEN._ And yet it is well known that you, are a regular Roundhead. One who would fight to the death for the people, ...

... has well been observed in relation to the recent election of a third representative for South Lancashire, that what the Whigs gave, the Tories have taken away. Such has really- been the fact, but the circumstance ought not to excite any surprise in ...

... concerning Reform, are now apathetic about the success of Whig or Tory. Matters are now coming to dead lock, when parties, being nearly equal, the business of the country will come to a stand still. Whigs and Tories are in that position now. The gain to the ...

... the result We may be equally sure that when the Whig chiefs, knowing the result, did go to bed it would not sleep ; for they must have felt that South Lancashire has once more sounded the knell of Whig- Radical domination in this countiy. Even the leading ...

... Protestant Duke of Norfolk took an active part in the political affairs of the day, and was one of the chief supporters of the Whigs. Carlton House, Devonshire House, and other great mansions, often received Jock of Norfolk as he was called, whose large ...

... Why, that the tories have willingly and cheerfully been instrumental in passing as many, it not more, good measures than whigs or liberals ; that they have originated aud successfully carried out a number of reforms and amendments, sanitary, legal, and ...