... office their principles may go to the shades. The Whig theory is that principles are only intended to be talked about, and to be made the guides of political conduct when in Opposition. In fact Whigs wear their principles only as electors do their rosettes-at ...

... Church when, in 1818, Dr. Sumner was male Archbishop of Canterbury. The Tories had raised him to the see of Cheater; it was the Whigs who conferred upon him the higher digisity. There were just then a few fainteymptoma of that recoil from the extreme views ...

... paragraph on Mr. Potts' resent landl escapade. Our contemporary demure to our description of sutiai the hon. gentleman as a Whig in the disguise of a nondescript Croue Conservetive. Be refers to Mr. Potts' addreas to the electors plain of BaSrntapls at ...

... would be taken likely to lead to a ministerial crisis, so that the Whigs are safe for this year. We must, however, be prepared for a, supplementary budget in order lo fill up that usual Whig hole-a deficit. WYell, a ear will soon pass away, and even Mr. Gladstone ...

... societies sprung into existence. The distinctive principles of party still exist, no doubt A Tory has not yet become a Whig, nor a Whig a Radical; and though the sharp outlines whichfifteen or twenty years ago separated each of these may have faded or been ...

... in the history of our Finances, which Sir STArFOnD NORTHCOTE is rumoured to be preparing, as the Minister of Deficits. The Whigs boast of their Single-speech HAMILTON, why should they not also have a Deficit GLADSTONE ? Mr. GnADSTONE seems to have a positive ...

... for precisely the oppoeite reason that the Statue of Sir T. D. Aeland, Bert., was not placed there ? What is to be the next Whig move? ENQUIRER. EXMINSTER VICARAGE. Dear Mr. Editor,-I hear some little family arrangements are about to be made, whereby a ...

... will have observed Mr. Cobden's statement that Gladstone was the real supporter of the ministry, and that if he were gone the Whigs must 4g to. Very creditable to the seventy or eighty members who keep a ministry in office whose policy they disapprove ...

... and that throughout the whole of his political course the leading object of his life was the maintenance and assertion of Whig principles. This alone should entitle Lord FORTESCUr to the gratitude of his party. Yet after the begging-box has been sent ...

... should be established. Lord CASTLEREAGE'S principles of foreign policy guided Earl RussEix, in his recognition of Italy, and the Whig SECRETARY will no doubt again act upon the maxims of his Tory prede- cessor. But whilst by the strict principles of inter- ...

... the slaseittlg gladiator of rhe Tory purty, lurkting in his stall at Durhemn, ever ready to sally, forth and stab a passting Whig. So he ,vaxed gt-at in thle favour of sidmouth end Eldon, veho lualted a literary brvo in those days. The coultery was indignant ...

... bad we regained our I position as a naval power than we found our French t neighbours again stealing a march upon us. The Whigs t invariably neglect the navy, and when Lord DZBYV came into office early in 1858 the country for the: frst- time had m the ...