... WHIG PURITY. An excited and by no means creditable scene was witnessed in the House of Commons on Tuesday. Mr. J. G. Churchward, one of the most influential and best-respected inhabitants of Dover—to whom, indeed, Dover is almost wholly indebted for its ...

... DISHING THE WHIGS.” (Spectator.) What is there in the programme of the fntnre which is to drive the Whigs away from their usual position as vanguard of the Liberals? We do not care much if they are driven away ; England can live without Cavendishes ...

... OPPORTUNITY FOR THE WHIGS. present time, the Standard thinks, is the Whig {opportunity. What will they do with it? very few jdays will supply the answer, and satisfy all doubts as to itheir patriotism and sinoerity. In the matter Reform, mnder the present ...

... of office. The difference between the old Whigs and the old Tories may be briefly told. The Whig says he will give Reform, and does not give it. The Tory says he won’t give Reform, and does give it. The Whig vows that he values Reform, and his way of ...

... of the Whig situation. Some action was rec|uird to conciliate the Radicals, whose co-operation the Conservatives had been secured only on the prmise a Reform Bill and measures Church spolition ; this was the reason of the production the Whig Reform Bill ...

... J 1 Whig gimes. EXETER,: THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1867. The weather in London continues very inclement, and much snow has fallen during the night. The Court will fio into mourning on the 20th instant for Prince Christian's mother. The queen's Court, postponed ...

... THE END OF THE WHIGS. Mr. Disraeli, at the close of a triumphant session, does not affect to disguise his joy at having outwhigged his natural enemies the Whigs. The reign of Whiggism began with the Reform BiU of 1832, and will end, he thinks, in the ...

... THE WHIGS AND REFORM The Saturday Review considers there can be doubt that any Reform bill coming from the Liberal party, would have been of a very different character from the present bill. What Lord Derby said, when speaking of the ' Opposition Peers ...

... THE STARTLED WHIGS. THE tenacity of Whig prejudice is very curious. There is far more sympathy between the true Conservative and the true Liberal, than between the Whig and the latter. One would think that modern progress would widen the Whig’s area of vision ...

... ARE THE WHIGS “DISHED?’* ” But it has dished the Whigs,*' was tho cogent reaeon given by Earl Derby a defence of his Bill, when pressed one of his friends, more closely than was agreeable, as to it* extent. It was the raised the Chanceli.or of the Exchequer ...

... WHITEHAVEN WHIGS- [From the Carlisle Patriot.] [The following remarks (referred in the above article from the Journal) will doubtless afford amusement to our readers ] Whigs are much the same everywhere. In counties they are usually stiff, dictatorial ...

... the People Act, and in what they differ from the features of Whig Reform Bills, a new light will, we think, be thrown upon the phrase ” dishing the Whigs.” Bat first of all, who are the Whigs, and what are’ their distinguishing characteristics as a political ...