... [from punch.] THE WHIGS OF AULD LAN'G SYNE (The Premier and the Nevt seers.) Should auld supporters ' o rgot, And never brought m Should auld Whigs remembered not By Whigs of syne ? * old lang syne, my friends, For auld lang syne ; We'll ye baith peerage ...

... of Baron North brook : When the PcGlites consorted with the Whigs, a place could not be found for Sir Francis, and he retired to that classic fourth bench behind the ministers to which a Whig Premier in want of colleague has so long been accustomed to ...

... you can see at a glance that things are going wrong, and have gone wrong for some time. A Whig Journal on Ministerial Prospects. The Morning Post tells the Whigs not to despair. A Pharaoh has arisen, who at any rate does know his own Josephs, and he has ...

... to be merged in the average conventionalism of . Whig ministry. He will absorb Russell, rather than let Russell absorb Bright. In other words, if he joined the ministry, the ministry must cease to be Whig, and learn to become Brightite. Such phenonemon ...

... forward as candidate for the representation of Brecon. The other candidates are the Earl of Brecknock, son the Marquis of Camden, Whig, and Mr. Howel Gwyn, the lately defeated Conservative candidate at Barnstaple. Prince Christian.—Many of the Holsteiu political ...

... Liberals. His answer was as emphatic as any Johnsonian utterance, the Presbyterian religion, sir. (Applause.) Speakiug of old Whigs, it is their former blundering, their bad of the party in past years which has caused the greatest practical difficulty which ...

... cattle plague, is an idea which might be worth discussion. Agricultural distress a pleasant bye word among the advanced Whigs, and cattle are naturally esteemed of less consequence than cotton. But the evil rapidly making itself felt among all classes ...

... when Lord Norman by was at the Colonial-office, Jamaica had very nearly proved the fate of the Whig Ministry. In fact, it has proved to be the bete noir of Whig Ministries since that period. We may rest assured that it will present itself in no more friendly ...

... Post remarks that in these proceedings the Whigs are only maintaining the system which, under the auspices of the first Duchess of Marlborough, became the shibboleth of their party. The misfortune of the Whigs is that their resources are limited, and that ...

... It is stated that Sir John Romilly, Master of the Rolls, and Sir Francis Baring, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Whig administration from to 1841, are to be raised to the peerage. The Dover and Calais mail packet Samphire came in collision on ...

... condition of parties in one brief expression while Whigs and Tories are quarrelling, Republicans are advancing. (Laughter and cheers.) Now I suppose, unless we are greatly mistaken, we know who the Whigs are; and we know who the Tories are. But up to this ...

... observes that the two great parties of the Whigs and Tories have mutually much to be proud and much to be ashameel of. But it may be added that the errors of the Tories were often on the safer, those the Whigs on the most dangerous side. There is no risk ...