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... WHAT IS A WHIG? What is a Whig ? Why ! Who shall say t Tbe creature cbangeth from day today; Never chameleon in queerest mood, Shows so many hues as one of this brood. Profuse in promises, slow in act, Friend of the people (where* the fact ?) Warm ...
... ANOTHER WHIG BLUNDER The Standard gives an amusing picture of tbe dilemma in which the Commissioner of the Bristol Bankruptcy Court re- cently found himself when called upon to interpret the Lord Chancellor's Directions to the Registrars as to advertise- ...
... HOW THE PURE WHIGS MANUFACTURE VOTES. We are indebted to the Revising Barrister's Court, at Tot- nes, for an insight into tbe mode in which the Duke of Somer- set manufactures votes for that borough. It is a matter of notoriety that bis Grace hss always ...
... (pure and simple) 312 ! Peelites 11 Whigs ?? • 238 Radicals 95 656 [This gives East Kent to the Conservatives, its late and rightful possessor, and Rcigate to the Whigs.] Putting the Conservatives on one side, and the Whigs, Radicals, Peelites, Jews, Turks ...
... Lieut-Colonel Lord A. Fitzroy, Equerry to the Oueen, will offer himself for the vacant seat at Thetfo'rd. Patees Conduct foe the Whigs axd Radicals.— Some of the most influential electors of North Lancashire waited on Lord Derby, and told him that if he would ...
... strength of the Whig-radicals, nay, alone kept them in office, has lately turned against them. The Irish Con- stituencies now return two-thirds Conservatives. The proportion of the Irish members, we believe, is about 70 Conservatives to 35 Whig-radicals ; ...
... and Col. White.father of the notorious Col. White, Lord of the Treasury, who was turned out of Longford, and now sits for the Whig nomination borough of Kidderminister. It is an insult to the Peerage to prostitute its honors, for mere services done for a ...
... leaders of Liberalism. From Edinburgh he was entered at Trinity College, Cambridge, at that time par excellence the Whig Col- lege of the Whig University. Here he was honorably distinguished, as we have been informed by the late Archdeacon of Cornwall, who ...
... thought too well of Whig human nature. The love of jobbery and trickery is as strong in the Whig now as ever. It is said an Armenian will never miss a chance of telling a lie, in fact will go out of his way rather than miss it. Even so a Whig will create a ...
... (Liberal) 703 M. Treherne (Conservative) 599 Robert J. Phillimore (Lib. Conservative) 356 Thos the late member, a consistent Whig, obtained a ma- jority of 2211 over the Conservative candidate, Mr. Treherne. In the general election of 1859 the close of ...
... THE BARNSTAPLE ELECTION Commenting on the disgraceful bribery resorted to h» i Whigs at this election, Woolmers Exeter Gazette say ' Ci We are glad to learu that steps have been taken to car™ the suggestion which we ventured to make last w^k ' raising ...
... them to reserve their votes in his behalf. Considering that the electors of this borough are as much at tbe mercy of the two Whig families of Baring and Fitzroy. as Bridgetown is at the mercy of the Duke of Somerset, Lord Frederick must be acknowledged ...