... Hall, and the persons present the gnetU of Sir James. His opinion of the Revised Code is. that it is diametrically opposed the Whig maxim-reform, not revolution ; for the movement is quite revolutionary one. It would, Sir Jamos intimated, lower the standard ...

... Barnburners, and Know-nothings of American politics, on the other hand, hava it in excess, and are vulgar. the whole, our own Whigs and Tories, perhaps, come as near to perfection as that human frailty which taints nicknames well as other things will permit ...

... to so. The Tories became ashamed of the name. The world progressed, and the word Tory meant to stand still. Hence, when the Whigs made their first legitimate stand on the Reform Bill of 1831, which they carried the year after, the epithet Tory gave way ...

... defeats have influence. lu its political aspect the forthcoming Lincoln election presents nothing new. will simply fight between Whigs and Tories. There is, however, one important social question connected with it which invite attention, ami which invests it ...

... take Mr. Thackeray’s view of the absurdity of existence spent in rushing from house to house bandying bits of pasteboard.— Whig, STATE OF PARTIES. (From the London Review.) It clear and indisputable feet, hewever much it rosy the interest of partisans ...

... liirned into ridicule for being the son of hairdresser, answer : ** So I am. and 1 am come into the House to give dressing the Whigs.” A pedant, happening to meet physician, tried conceal himself behind wall ; the doctor asked him the reason lor his strange ...

... of parliament the passing of the Reform Bill, came forward candidate for the North Riding. spit® °* the opposition of great Whig and Tory families, who resented his independent opinions, lie secured bis election by the organization of the small holders ...

... that the two great parties are differeot individuals, professing identical views, and with no inlial points of divergence. Whigs and Tories have each bias, which ons day will again carry them as far asander ever they yet have been. But as yet, in the actual ...

... —Because they have got their Hay in in Fsbruary. The genius who perpetrated this should once be in- Tested with the straw whig which Punch recommends in similar deplorable cases, and should, in addition, sent to do duty at the tread-mill for at least ...

... y strength of the two political parties has taken place:—The Conservatives have gained seats, which were then occupied by Whigs, at Taunton, Beverley, Ayrshire. Londonderry, Cork County, Leicester, South Wilts, Harwich, Oxfordshire. Orest Grimsby, Dartmouth ...

... sense of ike word. He often voted against Liberal Government with it; sud, though professedly a Whig, was never reckoned amongst those adherents of the Whigs who, at a political crisis, could depended on. Hia old corn-law principles forbad this; and prevented ...

... whom had issuo two sons and a daughter. succeeded his father in 1817, was high sheriff of Leicestershire in 1825. and aat the Whig member for the county of Leicester in 1829 and 1830, and from till for North Leicestershire from 1833 to 1837. The ancient ...