... and, but for fear of irreverence, we might as- sert that not even Heaven could say what will be- come of the Whigs. The hopes wbich both Whigs and Liberals some years ago might have entertained of an able and acceptable substitute have been lately scattered ...

... WHIG JOBBER Y.-THE EDMUNDS' CASE (From the Standard.) Mr. Edmunds's connection with the Patent Office ?? from the period of the Reform Hill. The •sninent lawyer, whoae seal for tbe bill, the whole tall, and nothing but tbe bill, had been rewarded with ...

... WHIG ?? Uaaerthismmewhat ?? head__« ye rees a ...

... B.'ght. Wbo on the Honse of Commons floor Deaouuc'd the Whigs in langnaje sore, For throwing their Reform Bill o'er ?— John Bright. - But, tho' with them he's now delighted, . Who by the Whigs ia coldly slighted, And has noi been to place invited ?— ...

... should say that this resolution of the Whigs, if it be one, ought to be unconditional ; but then we know that love of power is very absorbing, and we also unfortunately bear in mind tbat with the present race of Whigs at least the instinct is of a somewhat ...

... resigned to the appointment of Earl Russell as premier, returns to the attack upon him and his Whig traditions and practices with undiminished vigour: — The Whigs have not been distinguished in our time by any extraordinary ability. They had bril- 'ant men ...

... democracy out and out, and se helped to prepare tbe way for that absorption of tbe older Whigs in tbe Conservative party which must take place when the present Whig leaders become materially, a. they already are morally, .defunct. — Edinburgh Courant. ...

... great divisions are to be found in different lob- bies. In Parliament its voice gives out a most un- certain sound, neither Whig nor Tory, but half one and half the other. And, strange to say, though an election is fast approaching, the local Conservative ...

... aisrms of tho old traditional Whig families almost everywhere beiog excited in consequence of the seven- league strides that democ- racy had been encouraged by recent events to make. Then it was that such constitutional Whigs as ths present Earl oi Derby ...

... compass must swell, Tbe more noisy the crowd are ; Yet for Leeds to throw dirt On the Peerage too bad I call — Lord Russell is Whig, Viscount Amberley Radioal : Goes in for tbe masses, Would trust to the millions To tool their own drag Without Peers for ...

... at school : Declare, with confidence immense, That be and his alone have sense, And that the will of Providence Is that the Whigs should rule. And let one ill-meant taunt be flung. No matter whose the hostile tongue, Whether from Stanley's cynic lips The ...

... administration and the continuance in power of that which succeeded it. Tbe Times has not objected to tbe rule of the tradi- tional Whig names just enumerated for all tbat long period, and why should he now? Indeed the course taken bj our. contemporary at this ...