... THE WHIG TRIBULATION. Even the meanest and vilest of things, we are oftentimes assured optimists, are not without their uses in the economy of nature. It is therefore very gratifying to learn from the Saturday Review, which ia certainly no optimist, that ...

... favourably contrasts the api>oiiitnieiitH Mr. Disraeli has made with the spirit of jealousy and exclusion which has usually marked Whig administrations. ...

... questions awaiting solution, others contrast the appointments of Mr. Disraeli with the exclusive policy generally pursued by the Whig premiers. The opinion of the leading journals do not differ, however, on this point—that a liberal policy will alone secure ...

... he must regard Ireland as a nation of lunatics, The question was no v beymd the resistance of the or the tinkering of the Whigs; it was one which the people had themselves determined (as would be seen at the nejtf election) to settle on the principles ...

... Wyndham’s Bishop of Oxford Mr Saxton’s Christmas Day agst Mr E. Croft’s Champion Mr Blanshard’s Bab at th’Bowster agst Mr Trinder’a Whig and Fiz T-' OaJior Hoe agst Lord Eglinton’s Fanatic y; Rlackstoek’s Belle of Scotland agst Lord Lurgan’s Master Macgrath n-v ...

... somewhat difficult matter to tell who’s who among them. The Ministerial tactics of last year have effectually dished” the Whigs. As a party, their influence appears to be completely paralysed. They cannot agree among themselves ; and every man does and ...

... were they all Whigs there, or all Tories ? It struck him that if they should have an election in Newcastle to-morrow, there would be a good deal of excitement, and it would be found that they had not settled that little question as to Whig or Tory. He was ...

... progress. We thank Lord Russell for the word—the Whigs are the engineers, and the Tories the grand army. Only, a Conservative of Lord Russell’s personal eminence might be disposed to describe the Whigs in less complimentary terms. There is no better ...

... such a duty no time could favourable than the present, as the political ; of former days have quietly disappeared. views of Whigs and Tories, Radicals and tives, Protectionists and Free-traders, have ently passed away. They are merged i» family—(laughter)—who ...

... new ministry. The Daily News merely reproduces the gossip of the evening papers. A correspondent of the Scotsman (a strong Whig organ) says that generally Mr Disraeli has received the adhesion of Lord Derby’s supporters, in consequence at once of the ...

... he was once on his legs for live minutes before anyone discovered the fact. Next to him is the eldest son of another great Whig peer, Lord Milton. A Death-bed Disclosure. —There died in Coventry, a few days since, an elderly unmarried man named Palmer ...

... this, however, is only a modification of Macaulay’s phrase, the Hotspur of debate.” The fiery energy which caused the great Whig historian thus to style him has not perished; but he has matured into great statesman, worthy, as Sir William Hutt observed ...