... and, took the ne- cessary steps to obtain an adequate force. A militia force was deemed essential by all parties, but the Whigs bungled in the business, and actually broke down in the attempt ; whereupon the Derby Ministry, who came in on their downfall ...

... commanding majority ? Not at all. It is only that we cannot yet return con- servatives, any more than the Government can return Whigs or Peelites, for ultra- radical constituencies. Except perhaps the Tower Hamlets, Lambeth is the most extreme of the Metropolitan ...

... LIBERAL, EXTRAVAGANCE. The Whigs came into office at the end of 1860 with a professed policy of Reform, Peace, and Retrench- ment. By reform, they understood making such changes in the representation as should secure for them a Whig majority, an expectation ...

... collecting it. Such an arrangement can he ellected only by a Government measure, and we suppose that the most earnest and hope- ful whig-radical will not dispute the fact, that to all present appearance, tbe party who threw out the late Bill will be in office ...

... per annum. Mr. White is to step forward into his shoes. The whole thing is to be quietly and snugly arrauged after the true Whig fashion, '/—aud luckily there is always an if in these contingencies — if the good people of Kidderminster are willing. We ...

... enormous Whig, corruption in the selection ofthe charity commissioners' board must create public indignation, and very justly increase the great unpopularity of the present Whig government. I ask your permission to expose a far more corrupt Whig joh thau ...

... expenses; Accountant W r . Goodenougb Hayter, £— ; First Clerk J. W. Erie, son of the Chief Commissioner, £. — All these are Whigs. The recent act of tbe Attorney General would of itself aweken and tha _js_4rjr--f tbe ...

... April 10th. but all except his own followers among his colleagues, Welling- ton, Eldon, Peel, indignantly forsook him. The Whigs refused to join him, and Earl Grey spoke of him in the House with most insulting contempt. He was unable to fill up his Ministry ...

... been cut off from retreat from James Island by our gunboats. If this should be so, Charleston must soon fall. The Richmond Whig contains the following account, dated : Charleston, June 16 : — A severe battle took place this morning, on James Island ...

... Of course Montgomery has been kept by the Con- aarvatives, and the majority was satisfactory. On *^day morning however, the Whig-radicals were SSa*!! thC Mommg W™ » their tTL 2 '-™d£ unless all the returns are published, the numbers are a delusion. The ...

... proposing to arbitrate between North aud South was carried. — The Herald gives a fine specimen of that very common species, a Whig job. In July, 1842, a treaty was signed be- j tween Great Britain and Portugal, for tbe suppression of the •lave traffic, and ...

... patronage at the dispo- sal of the present Governmeut. It bas beeu Sir Johu Hard- ing's fate to advise the Government (whether Whig or Tory) on tbe international questions that arose during the Russian and Italiau wars, on the affair of the Charles et Georges ...