... to allow any one of less degree to carry the Key of the Wardrobe. Fate has been rather unkind to the order of late; and the Whigs just now are short of duchesses. The princely homes of Devonshire, Bedford, Norfolk, Leinster, Portland, and St Albans are ...

... been guilty of the unpardonable sin of disbelieving in pure Whiggery, and therefore it has long been the fashion among pure Whigs say all sorts of hard things against that able member of the House of Commons. The advanced Liberals, who are at present ...

... as far as principle is concerned, leaves the Whigs out In the cold. According to Professor Lorimer—and so far as the pore Whigs are concerned, pro. bib!, few thinkers will deem him far wroug,-. the great Whig party is unprincipled, of course in the sense ...

... your projects pursue, And this noble Idea keep ever in view ; Let but Numbers and Noise the ascendency gam. And then both Whigs and Tories, on Salisbury Plain, „ , Will lie Down, down—all of you down ! —Blackwood's Magazine for January. ...

... anxiety in the nation, and it can inspire little confidence except the minds of those who have been brought up in Whig houses and the Whig faith. such it is quite a matter of course that, long as Lord Russell is at the head of affairs, and seconded Sir ...

... Penn ta a To those whose imperfect education their minds uninformed as to the transcendant advantages of the almost purely Whig Administration, the Saturday Review thinks the signs of the season betoken anxiety and un- easines, The Duchy of Lancaster ...

... “ Whatever may be said of Lord Russell as a politician, sa‘d an old Whig of quality, the other day, the Tories cannot deny that he is a true Christian; for he re- turns them nothing but good for evil.” Patronage has indeed been flowing steadily towards ...

... said that the real answer to thi 7 is that its premises are not true in point fact. It is the most less of And now for the Whig’t says, after all “‘ The ist machine for ent of the nation. Gives the suffrage woich will p the best And your truecautious ...

... future. is hash and - candid enough in all con. science, but we should like to know why Mr Lorimer has such a contempt for the Whigs because be conceives expediency to be their spring of action. Take the passage we have just quoted, and .then ask what ground ...

... IFNIMI= hut been favoured with Mt inaLte se m i t4t i r ernerreels thleirledf 4/' tn. ' • Wen Welton, &Sober llth LIE Dun sr Whig tl4l with the =shrltr Mired me this sress, strength. &e., • nothing surer it I nuntles drm i g l i sty belittled pi kissdemi ...

... r ei reme lll tgg liuma i in t:i e : stone a onseienee, we hardly suppose that ,t, , i t,..„,i, no An ..t an. 'Fb,re any Whig iemerninent would lad recklews of n tool that the 1.:•.1 tholished Vie Sabbath its ow safety as to court that oldoility fns ...

... of the year all very well.” After this Swift turned to support Lord Bolingbroke, and the explanation this was, that from a Whig he had become Tory, and devoted ins great jKiwers to further the men of that party. In this Swift had a shrewd eye to his own ...