... Thackeray on Whigs. — l am not going, like Thomas, of Finsbury, to put ugly questions to Govern- ment, or obstruct in any way the march of the Great Liberal Administration. The best thing we can do is not to ask questions at all, but to trust the Whigs im- plicitly ...

... opinion taken. The Whig Radical paity was a most disrupt aud heterogenous oue. The Whigs voted with the extreme Radicals, not to assi»t them in their views, but in older lo circumvent aud defeat them. The Radicals did uot vote nith the Whigs from auy unity ...

... doubt that if the hon. gentle- man presented himself at Dartmouth, and sought to turn him out, he would have to bribe like a Whig — (laughter). He should bear in mind, too, that bribery was not cm- fined to the small boroughs, and that very queer proceed- ...

... But in politics it is impossible io bar- ricade oneself agaius' cy nici-m. Cau the leopard change his spots, or the gieat Whig paity cease to regard office as their appanage ? We camot at once believe tbis, and unfortu- nately the present cbarmiug spectacle ...

... THE CASE OF A RHYMESTER. Jobbery is such a peculiarly Whig vice that one can understand the keen zest with wbich the House of Commons applied itself to the unravelling of a transaction which promised to pnt the Tories into the same box as amateurs with ...

... doubt, that had it not been for the persistent determi- nation of the Whig Government, headed by Lord Palmerston, to give heed to nothing which opposed the monopoly enjoyed by the Whig pet, Southampton, the great facilities possessed by Falmouth must, directly ...

... not so in regard to his q.ondam colleagues in office, the Granvilles, the Caven- dishes, the Woods, the De Greys, and other Whig mag- nates. They deserve no pity, and none is wasted upon them. Into the pit which they dug for others they have t'.emselves ...

... time, and that the volunteers who were Tories might refuse to face a Tory mob, just as the volunteers who were Whigs might refuse to face a Whig mob. We see no validity in such reason- ing, but, on the contrary, we see an arrow directed at the honour and ...

... teracting principle to prevent its abuse. The whole course of our legislation since the Reform Bill, whether in the hands of Whigs or Tories, i has been by the people aud for the people; and among the people no class at the present moment receives a larger ...

... they see now the Conserva- tives in their true colours, and will no longer tolerate the abuse and misrepresentation which Whigs, Liberals, and Radicals have heaped upon the Constitutional party for so many years. A Reform Bill, which all sides seem anxious ...

... the Peninsular and West India mail bags ; and your other friends, the Whig Premiers of 1838 and 1850 deprived you of the Halifax and the Brazilian letter bags ; so between both, whig and tory friends, Falmouth is stript of its influence, ia ren- dered ...

... lost. The two great parties must co-operate if any measure is to become law. Governments of all shades and textures— purely Whig Governments, purely Conservative Governments, tortoise-shell Gov- ernments have all tried their hands at the work, and yet ...