... friends among the Whig party in the House of Commons. (Hear, hear.) He and his friends arouud him on the platform held themselves to bo Whigs in the sense in which the word was used in 1832. He held exactly the same opinions 1866 which the Whigs held in 1832 ...

... honourable member for Inverness-shire :—Mr Baillie said it was a cool Whig job that Sutherland had a member to itself, instead of being joined with Caithness. Was it also by a Whig job that the Reform Bill dealt with equal liberality with such Tory counties ...

... POLITICAL STRATEGY. The Tories manoeuvred cleverly when they mauaged to engage the heir of a great Whig house to fire the train which is expected to blow the Whig Government of Earl Russell into space but the result is not unlikely to prove that Gladstone has ...

... the invitations to which have, it said, been all accepted. The Conference will meet about the 12th June. The Belfast Northern Whig of Wednesday makes the following satisfying announcement: — There have been no further cases of Rinderpest in this neighbourhood ...

... rally round the disaffected Whig, for if anything could increase their pleasure in shelving the question it would be that the? might be able to declare that it was placed on shelf, not by them, but by the hands of an dox Whig. The whole of Wednesday was ...

... able, often accused of being spiteful in the region politics ; but fancy the Venerable Tory admitting this month that the Whigs the old school prefer their country and its great institutions to any party triumph ! The writer les that the second reading ...

... to be merged in the average conventionalism of a 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 a phenomenon ...

... perplexity maintained by the Liberal party. The Advertiser says it seems to be very certain that with the aid given by the Whig malcontents, the Conservatives can throw out the bill. The Post asserts that tho delay which circumstances or an error of judgment ...

... understood that he was secured for the occasion before he knew with what manner of men the demonstration originated. The old Whigs were conspicuous by their absence ;'' but good men aud true were on the platform for all that, and the resolutions which ...

... words, but the words of an authority which I have studied a good deal, and which I commend to the attention of those of the Whig party that have not as yet seen their way to support the progress of what we call Reform, ancl who appear rather to tremble ...

... all parties seem now to bo at one, I would recommend Russell to pursue his poetical researches, and try the old song— Let Whig and Tory all agree -a not inappropriate ditty for an ex-conductor of a journal once described by one of its own supporters ...

... parties have appeared all gulf—the difficulty being to pick out a solid spot upon which to found a creed. The Whigs are admittedly extinct—the old Whigs of 1688 that is ; Tories were all but defunct. There was more friendship between these factions and more ...