... 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 ...

... DECLINE AND FALL OF WHIGGISM. The Saturday Review tella us tbat the Whigs, a8 such, are always dying. A moribund life is their normal state of existence. ether these are the last days of Whig- to eny. It is gery, it would be premature decidedl: arl Russell ...

... THE MIDDLE CLASSES AND THE CONSTITUTIONALISTS. The party manoeuvre by which the Whigs won their political supremacy, and gained the support of the middle classes, has ultimately brought about tbeir disorganization, and has caused a deep and growing distrust ...

... nt, with vague promises of household ratepaying suffrage os bigger and better bidding for popular favour than that of the Whigs; while trembling and terrified Tories will, it is hoped, be induced to gulp down their rage and stifle their fears by no end ...

... men would offer them at periods of election. He was oblivious alsoof the motion of Lord Grosvenor, a Whig, and that of Lord Dunkellin, another Whig, to which was owing, principally, the defeat of a Bill that was essentially accounted dishonest, from ...

... Reform which Sir. Glad ■tone intended. It is Question of quality as well as ol quantity. The half-loaf which was turned out tb* (Whig oven was no breaa all the opinion of those jsrhom it was meant to feed. It was over-bakod, short weight, and presented, one ...

... Gladstone as not only the nominal, but also the real, leader of the liberal party—a somewhat remarkable avowal for an old Whig and follower of Earl Russell, and tending to prove that the recent article the Edinburgh proposing the deposition of the late ...

... and partly to their memories of Sir Robert Peel, have idea that Tories, for some reason or other, govern more strongly than Whigs. The Tories always enter office with a liazy prestige of that sort, and this time the Recess has helped greatly to clear it ...

... (Renewed laughter and applause.) The Whigs, as @ governi body, were for ever extinguished. (Loud laughter and applause. ad ) Lord Derby anda Conservative Government were in office. (Applause.) Mr, Giadstone had dese: the Whigs an e had become the grand marshal ...

... it fair consideration, and earnestly deprecated any unprincipled combination to defeat it, such as the compact between the Whigs and the Radicals in 1859. A serious explosion has taken place in one of Meant- Sparrow and Co.’s Ironstone pits Longton, North ...

... woman-like, pestered the unjust judge until she had her petition granted. He had no more hope from the Whigs than the Tories ; because the Whigs, though smiling at them, were yet beguihng them. He complained that he himself had no vote while Sir John ...

... Parliament as Whig in when was elected without opposition. In 1837 he fought very severe battle for North Wilts; Sir Francis BunJett, who hod then become a Conservative, being at the head of the poll; Mr, Methuen, afterwards Baron Methuen, a Whig, being third ...