... WHIG PARTI An Old Whig” sends long letter to the Times, from Brookes’,’’ the present position and prospects of the Whig party, in which ho says ,4 lt has often been remarked that it is rather difficult iu these days to know the meaning of the word Whig ...

... merely one of party pride, which readers thefni averse from following the lead of Mr Walljole;in a, matter which Mhay affect the Whig administration, but that they are 'oposed under present circum. otnuces to the lowering of the suffrage iz towns,' where no ...

... of this kind that the j Whigs proper have their stronghold. Large con| st fluencies, such those of London or the north, where they do not return Conservatives, return class of members still less to the liking of the great Whig houses. there turns out ...

... the hands of the middle elem, where it ought to be ; sad, as to ealemounat hills, they have jibed foci. brought forward the Whigs were in a difficulty, and had un to proposetcheem &mildNO— smite, his certain knowledftlgLl , l'almergton had no intention' ...

... its extent and effect. And further, the grouping will generally, if not always, put an end to that dictation on the p*rt of Whig magnates, like the Duke of Somerset, which has so often done the party good service. As regards the boundaries of boroughs ...

... Scotch Keform Bill, |„. ') ‘•chief'point lay in hi, r,.- , Inyerncas. That eentleman ,• 1 allotment of a whole member cool Whig job; «„,! •»« answer Mr liiil.i*. - •• Was it also by Whi* j v, dealt with equal liberality with'., as, for instance. Peebles ...

... honourable opponent were agreed on many points, they looked politics from two essentially different points of view, the one being Whig and the other a Tory; and illustrate this, he needed only to refer to the vital question of reform. Sir James had told the ...

... coalition; he'would Inot be 'a creatufe of a partyE conspiracy,- e would 'ibt be 'ontefit to'enteriPariiinment' 'so the tool of sai Whig noiniuee;, nor' wffould he be a provisional delegate or peripatetic speuter .(eapplauee) The rial appendage of the pump, and ...

... remarked , to _string all the bfilces of the State on his single sword _ - --:., : _** The advent of Earl Grey and the Whigs to _office replaced Mr _/ Grant and Lord Palmeraton in the _Government—the former ' as _President of the Board oE Control ...

... will speedily be up again ; but whet we have to observe is that it has grown out of the virtual monopoly of power which the Whigs have so long possessed, and, if we may use a term in pathology, to that bulimia, or unnatural appetite and hungering for office ...

... frame your lprescriiptioa according to the emergency. The ScotoMan proposes merely present palliatives, Sir, this is - Old W'hig;' to the very core, verging fast on Old Toryi-M. You rise to a full appreciation of the advance which everything has made ...

... _future from the _past _, _^ and _foretell that ' so . long as Reform is _unsettled the _^ _Conservatives will _always Cod it a Whig _property . _'; They _may beat it _every year , _but it will _. tctnm as _sure _as _the _cuckoo , and _a good deal in advance ...