... remark of the First Napoleon, that men of all political parties forget their rivalries in the presence of a national danger. Whigs are strongly represented—a proof that a Conservative Ministry can appreciate personal fitness apart from party identification ...

... never forgot that it simply the means to end. Cottonopolis” it was that first displayed restivenessat the inaction of the Whigs; and to remind them of what the nation expected, sent to Parliament advanced Reformers its representatives. The spirit of political ...

... u r “a* «tiil greater «ucce«, ,i ——. meet the quMtion « more Kborel , M yet manifested, their downfall will L bars And the Whigs will not in belter wider measure than some of the part, are rfi l '”' • will l« needed before the people are satisfied. Morrissey ...

... coalition of Whig and Tory, only saved him from the humiliation of appearing at the bottom of tho poll. The support of Adah Black by almost the entire rank and file of Parliament House Whiggery was a blunder which may yet cost the Whigs of tho Scottish ...

... with the shameful letter of Lieut. Brand. Tue SECRETARYSHIP OF LRELAND.—The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian (Whig) says :—Lord Derby is looking about him for a Chief Secretary for [reland, in the room of Lord Naas, who refused the governor- ...

... farther and fared worse than any those the Whigs delight honour. Thomas Muir, whom the High Courtof Justiciary sentenced to fourteen years’ transportation, was a Scotch advocate. But Thomas being rather Radical than Whig, his fame boa not been blazoned. As we ...

... claim the merit of triumph in conflict from which has withdrawn. Earl Derby was, it is true, once a Whig ; at least passed for one. But when the Whigs proposed a measure of justice to Ireland, that moment fell out of the ranks, turned his back upon the ...

... ballot, and preferred gradual to a violent extension of the suffrage. He should have been thankful if the Tories and exclusive Whigs had seen fit to accept the very restricted measure of Reform proposed by the late Government. He had been convinced, however ...

... its veto. The Whigs accepted their defeat, and though they had driven Peel from office in asserting the principle of Appropriation, they yet clung to power after the principle was repudiated. That ignoble resolve dates the decline of Whig influence in ...

... from the nature of Liberalism to decry our institutions ; aud the best weet the worst abuse. Even Lord Macaulay, who though a Whig, was never a Democrat, could not refrain from slander- ing the House of Lords. ‘* Whatever confidence,” said that brilliant ...

... reforming age, and iu all ages whether te forming or not, the one important refurm is 4 may’s does not at all depend on Governmeute—Whig or Tory. Trust not inprinces ; trust not in politicians ; tras not in monster demonstrations—trust in nothing at sll but @ ...

... tho party out of doors. II speeches must be made, they need not say anything. They may marked by the discretion of which the Whig Minister of the last Parliament was so great a master, who could say infinite amount of nothing with consummate art; and his ...