... when the Tories were driven from power by the Whig cry of peace, retrenchment, and reform,' the civil service expenditure only amounted to 1,872,0007.; but it was now 8,000,000/. Out of the 30 years the Whigs had held office 27 years, and there could be ...

... are not going to be parties to the gigantic jub in progress for letting in a Whig because he has married a Tory. The affair is all the worse because the other member is a Whig. In the present position of affairs every vote in the house is of vital importance ...

... be remedied or removed if every article bore the signature of its writer. The Whig principle of patronage is, we imagine, the most eccentric and unintelligible of all Whig principles whatever. But it is never illustrated so vividly, in its splendid contempt ...

... one of your Whig-supporting contemporaries asserts to-day that, with this verdict of the [louse of Commons the country will be satisfied. I for one protest against the truth of the above assertion, and beg to be allowed to ask the Whig organ making ...

... traders by the problematical phases which the Danish war question has assumed, not less by the undignified conduct of our own Whig government than by the conference in London, whose protracted efforts to settlb a complicated question must now soon come to ...

... the regular soldiers. Sir William appeared in the witness box to read this letter, with a view to prove a quoque against the Whigs, that they also had been wiling in the hour of their distress to dabble in rebellion. The judges, however, as soon as they ...

... escape. Ho has indicated pretty clearly the mansion to which he will next resort, but he still lingers on the premises of the Whigs. It argues ill for the confidence of the latter in the stability of their tenement that they hare not had the courage at once ...

... Lord DERBY and his party to power. The Whigs have been tried long enough, and The Irish members will soon haves an opportunity of proving their fidelity to their country and the soundness of their judgment. The Whigs have been described as the hereditary ...

... departure of the population, and unite with the Whig Government, from which Ireland can hope not even for sympathy? Every legislative measure advocated by the Whigs has levelled a blow against Ireland. To Whig legislation we are indebted for the ruin of farmers ...

... upon the table. The commissioners themselves were a snug nest of Whigs, and of the forty persons connected with them as inspectors and clerks every one, without exception, belonged to the Whig party. Their appointments to inspectorships had been ch aracterised ...

... the county of Limerick, where he possessed considerable preperty in right of his maternal grandfather, as an opponent of the Whig Government. O'Connell was at this time at the height of his supremacy; and Mr. Smith O'Brien set himself doggedly to the task ...

... lieutenants, and 18 second lieutenants. The total Prussian loss may be broadly estimated at 120 officers and about 1800 men. THE WHIG MOVEMENTS.—We stated last month that Lord Clarendon had joined the ministry simply with a view to succeed to the Premiership ...