... yesterday is exceedingly curious, although, it must at the same time be admitted, exceedingly characteristic. In the opinion of a Whig nobleman and the Tory party, it was inexpedient to affirm the expediency of lowering the electoral franchise until the House ...

... Government of which he had been a supporter had departed from the rule of Whig Governments in past time, and instead of taking entirely the advice of certain portions of the Whig powers, had taken advice from that section of the House among whom I generally ...

... our Queen ; unflinching Dissenter, he ha* praise for the clergy of tho Establishment. There used to be a familiar saying, Whig and something more; Mr Cossham is a Radical and something more—he is a politician who has learned how to combine broadness ...

... to be hoped that this question of Reform may be settled once for all by some measure which may satisfy the pledges both of Whigs and Tories, and yet not altogether undermine the foundations of the Scripture. A Liverpool telegram states that four fatal ...

... influence, if not the dictation, of Bright. The grouping will generally, if not always, put an end to dictation on the part of Whig magnates, but these groups will not always have community of interest, without which there can be no real representation. The ...

... exhilarating than tea. The sum of the bill, says the Standard, is that the landed interest is to be despoiled, and that the Whig-Radical interest in Scotland, which already exercises so marked an influence in our divisions, is to be made entirely predominant ...

... his colleague, Mr Osborne, will have the support of the Conservative party, and Mr Osborne may obtain a few votes from the Whigs and licensed victuallers, the latter having resolved to oppose the election of Mr Cossham on account of his views on teetotalism ...

... results, we are told, would have been very different: had all boroughs with fewer than 600 voters been scheduled, nearly score of Whig seats would havo been destroyed which now have escaped. It may be conceded, in reply, that there are some reasons for preferring ...

... OUTBREAK OF CATTLE PLAGUE IN IRELAND. (By Electric Telegraph.) A second edition of the Belfast Northern Whig, of yesterday, says:—The rinderpest has broken out in the townland of Drennan, county Down, five miles from Lisburn. Four cattle have been killed ...

... Nor do i-egret tjie abashed success—abashed, because he came in a questionable second—of Lord Amberley. It long since the Whigs had a clever eldest son of an illustrious family to boast of. and it is something in the dearth of fame to secure a voice ...

... is quite affecting. That paper says :— would be a grand retribution to unseat the son of the Premier for bribery; but these Whig pretenders to purity and freedom of election ought to have set a better example to the country, after the exposure which has ...

... some, a sorrowful time to others ; a joyful time to many, but a steady, reliable time to all. We have now much commotion of Whig and Tory, who are still as Unwilling to agree as they were at the time when Skinner counselled agreement in one of the merriest ...