AS THE OLD COCK CROWS, THE YOUNG COCK LEARNES

... compass must swell, The more noisy the crowd are; Yet for Lords to throw dirt On the Peerage too bad I call- Lord Russell is Whig, Yiscount Amberley Radical: Goes-in for the masses, - - Would triust to the millions To tool their own drag Without Peers for ...

The Reform meetings lately held in Bradford and Birmingham, and the indications a Reform policy afforded by ..

... accordingly their bent happens to lie. But whatever their disposition in regard to it, none of them can keep clear of the subject. Whig, Radical, philosophic Liberal, Tory, there is not one of our metropolitan contemporaries, but has its say upon the topic ...

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... the House, were both instructive ami amusing, and will bear to reproduced a sample the arguments by which the nominee of a Whig peer seeks to justify the exclusion ot the working cla&ses from the franchise. And your petitioners respectfully mention the ...

POLITICAL PROSPECTS

... The Conservatives are all alive; they have most energetic and efficient agents, and plenty of money. On the other hand, the Whigs are supine, listless, have no rallying point, and no agents worthy of the name. Neither are the Liberals to be depended upon ...

POETRY

... deceive you; Jack's fever has gone off, but I forgot to say ?? went off with it' (Laughter and S cheers.) It is so with the Whig ardour for the 61. fran- lo ebise for poor Jack the working man; it was a raging w fever as against Lord Derby's lGovernment; ...

THE ACCEPTABILITY OF THE DIDACTIC NOVEL

... tionoften find it d~ifficultto graspandrcalise to them. selves 'the scenes and character which it describes. But -n infusion of Whig and Tory, of Church and Chapel, or of Manchester and Oxford, supplies just the avour and consistency which they require. Such ...

RECENT FAMILY HISTORIES

... There are Whig legends and Tory legends, Whig ballads and Tory ballads, and the red roses and white roses of Scottish poetry have never agreed. The Lammermoor legend is a Tory one; and the Whig and Presbyterian AGNEWS sympathize with the Whig and Presbyterian ...

LITERATURE

... d Tory. Hoe an Crocker ran in couples as Secretory to the Admiralty and Secretary at War. They wrote together against the Whigs in the Neis ?? Guide. His separation from the Tories arose from personal pique against the Duke of Welhngtion in reference ...

Pickings from Punch

... at school: Declare, with confidence immense, That he 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 ...

LITERATURE

... highly. At present Mr. Bright and his friends ore supporting Lord Paluocrotol, not because they love the Whigs, but beustuse they lsate the Whigs less than they hate the Tories. They know the WVhigs oire squecezable. Thei know they love office fil nieore ...

Our Library Table

... reform bill was carried; a measure which had been most carefully prepared to re- of tain power in the hands of the oligarchical whigs. Soon VI after it was passed his lordship made a speech in favour of the permanency of the measure, and of its final character ...

Our Library Table

... bill was carried; a' d- measure which had been most carefully prepared to re- of. tain power in the bands of the oligarchical whigs. Soon v, after it was passed his lordship made a speech in favour sdof the permanency of the measure, and of its final n- ...