... former said to be tory, the latter a whig ; at all events that feeling was the cue of the game. The whigs lei off on the first day with a majority of three or four, the next day it increased to seven, olosing at—whigs 20, tories 13. It was said that after ...

... signatures for a requisition to Stafford Northcote. Some of the Liberal electors are su' prised at the apparent apathy of the Whig party. Stafford's party may remember the late contest, when came on the hustings eupported most of the parson 9 the neighbourhood ...

... whom I have conversed seem either indignant at tho proposed arrangement, or unable to believe that it can be true. Are the Whig Gentry prepared to see the Independent Liberals severed from their party ia this Division ? Wnat would they then do in the ...

... NORTH DEVON ELECTION. We hear nothing hut expression of dissatisfaction in North Devon, at the way in which the whig gentry are giving up the seat to Sir Stafford Northcote. We fear that it will lead to a serious split persevered in. Nay, it is looked ...

... ; Jews, and a small section of so-called philosophical Radicals like Mr. J. Stuart Mill. The large majority of the House, Whigs and Tories, like the far larger majority in the country, have no sympathy with these agitators. Yet from apathy, from ignorance ...

... sire, and were glad to see him as one of the Old Whig party, doing effective duty on behalf of a Bill which, according to the traducers of that great historical party, must be distasteful to it. The Whigs, however, have always been ahead of the public ...

... body of his fellow countrymen. It could not be that a Bill of this character could have been brought in without consulting the Whig party, and there could not be much danger in a Bill brought in by a member the House of Bedford, and supported the Cavendish's ...

... the faith that is in him with respect to the Government Bill. Why, after vaunting the superiority of this bungling example of Whig-Radical statesmanship as compared with Conservative propositions, he ' inadvertently let slip the fact that was ignorant of ...

... is occasionally put forward simply as bait to the more moderate Whigs and to those Conservatives who have been caught by the lustre of his name, and have been entangled in the meshes of Whig diplomacy. Now under these drcumstances it is a shame and a pretence ...

... Government has reason to complain of the conduct of the Grosvenors, the Fitzwilliams, the Pettys, and other members of the Whig aristocracy, for the disfavour shewn to a well-conceived and judicious plan of reform sorry indeed should we be to think that ...

... body of his fellow countrymen. It could not bo that a Bill this character could have been brought in without consulting tho Whig party, and there could not be much danger in a bill broaght in by member of the House of Bedford, and supported by the Cavendishes ...

... Government, Earl Qrosvenor will take with him many votes, the Middle party are becoming stronger by amalgamating with the old Whigs, and the Opposition, with Mr. Disraeli at their head, are working hard to find yood excuse for throwing out the present ministers ...