... 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 ...

... boroughs, with triangular seats for counties and aU manner of queer and complex conditions, bid two years later by Peelite-Whig-Radical coalition, and then withdrawn at the first note of the trumpet Bounding to war. On the other hand they have seen a ...

... fish, in this instance figurative, could not be other than Whigs. Mr. Scaoea all through his political life has been a Whig of the Whigs; a consistent and worthy representativeof • thoroughly Whig borough; he was never influenced to swerve from his party ...

... POLITICAL PARTIES. The Saturday Review suggests the painless extinction of the great Whig party as a grand subject for him who strung the elaborate harp of elegy in his In Memoriam, and who wept over the tender grace of a day that is dead. It is with ...

... prove that Tories were always the Reformers they now are under the Derby-Disraeli captainship, and that it they, and not tne Whigs, to whom we are indebted for the real greatness of England. He did not tell them this in many words, but these were in reality ...

... (A Cantata.J SOLO. O ye great and little fislies. Handed round in silver dishes. Everything that could be wisoadt Like the Whigs you all are dished. CHORUS. Oh, oh, oh Joe, Joe, Joe! No, no, no, Ben, Ben, Ben, may pass. Fill the glass. Happy colleagues ...

... London thoroughfares, Bow, wow, wow, 4c. He once accused Sir Robert Peel fTwas thought a good and gay thing) stealing the Whigs' clothes away. The while their Lords were bathing: But bettering the example, Now turns worse theft to glory— The Radicals' ...

... give no vote for Somerset, or teach the party a lesson for the nonce, and plump for Berkeley. I remain, Sir, yours, An Old Whig. GLOUCESTERSHIRE EYE INSTITUTION. To the Editor of the Gloucester Journal. Dear Sir,—Please acknowledge in your columns, with ...

... the scheme originally introduced, ending in a bill exceeding in liberality anythiug that could have been hoped for from the Whig party, we cannot but think that the time was well chosen for the measure, and that a fortunate concurrence of circumstances ...

... moment as he was when he art beside Peel in 1842, and denounced the faction of which he is now the chosen leader. But for the Whig magnates, the fallen leader's quondam colleagues in officethe greedy place.nekers—be Las no pity. Into the pit which they ...

... Education. The way in which they were received was sufficient to show bow far the old spirit of party allegiance amongst the Whigs has waned. It was not only that Earl Russell lacked the genius to engage his former followers in a fresh crusade, but that ...

... revo• lution, and to shake the aristocracy, the Church, and Thriin.., with a terrible convulsion to their ultimate ruin. The Whigs themselves were afraid of the monster they had created ; the principle of concee'ion to mob law sod the popular will had been ...