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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; ...

EDINA'S WREATH

... gills, that look'd sae blue, I weel did note. Amszmd, I stared to see thegither, An' gaun as brither gangs wi' brither, Baith. Whig an' Tory in ae tether An' uaith agreein'. The millennium'ns comue, thinks 1, or whither Is my e'en leein' t The Il iberal corps ...

AN ELECTION SONG

... Oh, fie } it is not reasonable; Unwash'd artificers, be off! For you to vote were treasonable. Tories and mongrel Tory-Whigs They call themselves Conservative- Dogs in the manger, cross and blind, Of nought but self preservative, Proud Derby frowns ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... pride such as only an English Whig Peer, a Cardinal, or a Brahmin ever honestly feels, neither compromised or gave way; and even when Canning made a movement towards Liberal opinions, and drew around him some of the leading Whig statesmen, Lord Grey stood ...

THE AGRICULTURAL SHOW AT PLYMOUTH

... result was that words came to fisticuffs, making such a noise as to bring the admiral on deck to see what was the matter. Whigs and tories were equally anxious to explain that their mutual pum- melling had been exchanged in a strictly parliamentary and ...

Literary Notices

... immediately preceded it. It is founded on the delusion that there are only two distinctive parties before the country-the Whigs anrd the Tories--the one said to be the representative of natleural vitality, the other of national lethargy ; the formuir ...

LITERATURE

... these rhymed reasons are very spirited and clever. Theradicalmakeshard hits now and then, and is specially severe with the whigs. Stop that Australia, is a good bit of sarcasm. He singe:- I Quick! ship them off some queens and Idngs; Somepriiites, g ...

Our Library Table

... participates in most of their views, and has shared in their laboors. But by his long connection as a publisher with the leading Whig literati, he has often been called upon to act as a medium of communication between the first and second of the three sub'divisiuns ...

LORD JEAMES AND SIR EDOM DE GRIMM

... then hide his vote In that onrs'd atrocious ballot. Noo th e Lord Morleleek has nae freends ava In the tuld a dn' staunch Whig cleekie e Ile mnann cut an' rin, for he'll ne'er win in, cries uine own romantic, Rokie. H ad he stown a leaf cot o Edonm's ...

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... and a scat was found for Reform Sir T. Western, a descendant and heir to the estates of the late rd Western, the great Essex Whig, who fought the county against Alexander Baring, afterwards Lord Ashburton. Middlesex, the great Metropolitan county, returned ...

Our Library Table

... participates in most of their views, and has shared in their labours. But by his long connection as a publisher with the leading Whig literati, he has often been called upon to act as a medium of communication between the first and second of the three sub-divisions ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... without question to spend their leisure on the business of legislation. Because at more than one period of our history the great Whig families have produced patriotic Englishmen, true representatives of the best mind of their own country, they have hastened ...