... WHIG PURITY. Surely, surely the Whigs act purely When they talk about it so demurely, When their journals all against bribery clamour, (Not always in the best of grammar) When Nineveh's noble hero, Layard, Boasts himself chivalrous as Bayard: Tories may ...

... EDITOR OP THE PEEss.,, Sir,—The political economy at present in po3- session of the public mind was written for the Whigs, and is Whig from beginning to end. It is not sound in principle, because it is the political economy of a section of the community ...

... main body of the Whig aristocracy will be parties to such an act of political treason and folly; but should, unhappily, the measures set on foot to delude, to cajole, or to intimidate them, be successful, the verdict of history upon the Whig party will be ...

... caries. Equal they seem in savageness and spite: Will pluck beat size when comes the final fight?— Or will the terrier of the Whigs be found Torn from his kennel, and in ordure drowned? i j _. I ...

... expectation that the Whigs wondered whether it could possibly be carried; the Tories concluded that it certainly could not ; and the Radicals, with justifiable exultation, felt sure that no temporary defeat could destroy a plan to which the Whig leaders, the ...

... his noble gallery of political portraits, thus paints William Windham : Turn, where below the gangway (as between Tory and Whig) was Norfolk's athlete seen. In him the ideal of a class we scan, Fair England's lettered hardy gentleman. Easy, yet earnest; ...

... might and would justly repudiate anything that they did. In conclusion, he made a forcible appeal to the independent moderate Whigs to be wise in time, and not to bury themselves prematurely in that tomb in Westminster Abbey in which the ion. member for ...

... members of that party? and are not the Government, in tailing to consult the feelings and wishes of the great majority of the Whig party, leaving the old traditions of their party? lam proud on this occasion to be able to say on the part of some—it may be ...

... conduct of the Tory party on all measures affecting the welfare of the people —in shortening the hours of labour in spite of Whig Governments and strenuous opposition of the hon. member for Birmingham. Yet they were told they knew nothing of the working ...

... more than for the Church, when the Irish Establishment is given over as a prey to political agitators—abandoned in the true Whig style as a sop to Ultramontane and schismatical horseleeches, whose cry will still be, as it ever was, Give, give, until ...

... opportunity of settling the question of Reform was overlooked when the Reform Bill of Lord DERBT'S Administration was rejected by a Whig and Radical conspiracy, instead of being accepted and adopted by the House in accordance with the sentiments of the majority ...