... Statesmen in their Second Childhood. FOB A PREMIER. Twaddle, twaddle, little Pam, ij' While you utter Here I am, Up among the Whigs so high, What a pretty boy am I! FOR A FOREIGN SECRETARY. Write letters cross, And threatening force, You silly old party ...

... not willing to fulfil the pledges uf 1859 and 1860. When it is a questiou of reform or foxpnlsion from office, he >'aY8, the Whig s a'e-men will decide h, fIIvur of tefoi m. Tnis is the only effectual mode ot dealing with thll1, and he hop it will be ...

... was more excitement last time, for then the Whigs intended to throw out the Tories, but, if we are to judge from the Buckinghamshire manifesto, the Tories are not now really intending to throw out the Whigs. Contests always brinsr out party feeling, but ...

... studiously conciliatory towards the Liberal Government, and so flavoured with a prescrip- tive tinge of feeling almost worthy of a Whig in some of its sentences, that it will be regarded by many as a bid for office. He said the new Administration is composed ...

... Peelite Conservatives cheered be- cause they remembered Lord J. Russell's Edinburgh letter and the tardy conversion of the Whigs; the Whigs cheered because they gladly gave the credit to Mr. Cobden rather than to the Minister; and the Protectionists cheered ...

... reoognise the establishment of the Empire in 1852, he being the actual occupant of the Foreign-office on the 2nd of December. The Whigs came into power five weeks after that event; but bis Lordship adds that doubt- less they would have taken the same cordial ...

... House of Commons, and the only com- who has worn the Garter since Lord Castle- reagli and all the recently named knights are Whigs with the notable exception of Lord Derby, who was appointed at the Queen's desire. Mav it not, then, be said that the order ...

... to say gave him more pleasure than any subsequent success in life. He served three months, and on his return was nominated a Whig candidate for the Illinois legislature, but the county being Democratic he was beaten. His own election precinct, however, ...

... grazier to con- tribute still further to the wants of those on this side of St. George's Channel; for, according to the Belfast Whig, there is an immense increase of cattle-raising, and the number of calves now being reared is said to be by far the highest ...

... too-went in for Reform precedents from the Parliament of 1628, for opinions of Lard Somere, and Lord Durham, and ether eminent Whigs on Reform-and altogether took a page out of Hallam. The conclusion of his speech was as :fine in its way as anything he has ...

... suffrage as the true goal of the Reform movement. To each strong Radical strophe of Lord Amberley's there was, however, a cautious Whig antistrophe which took something from its force. Lord Amberley thinks the uneducated should be excluded from the franchise ...

... cheerfulness, and have declared their intention to carry on the war to any extremities. The following extract from the Richmond Whig will give an idea of the sentiments of the people and the desire of the press to buoy up the spirits of the army and to represent ...