... language. So long the Tories allow the Whigs to do nothing, they are at least respectable and honest. If they as the Whigs did, and justify the policy they adopt, there is nothing too bad be said of them. What high Whig authorities would greatly prefer is ...

... the world the psychological fact that to a Whig all Whigs are superior beings. Lord Russell would not, we suppose, assert this in definite terms; but it is evidently his implicit unconscious belief. The Whigs of the past are surrounded by a spiritual halo ...

... should it suit the convenience of the moment, the cat’s-paw of the Whig leaders, who would not deeply regret that Scotland should be left without Household Suffrage —which the whole Whig party detest—as long as possible. They have not raised the question ...

... Gladstone, and every statesman that can be mentioned ; but I have pursued the even tenor of my political way—a Whig to begin, Whig to continue, and a Whig to end—unbending, unambitious, unfactious, unswayed by any other feeling than love of mv country and of ...

... opinion in the country.” The Herald says“ Not syllable was uttered Thursday night by Liberal leaders. Only Bouverie—that Whig of Whigs, superlatively traditional—was put up. He was not welcome to tho House; he was not cheered; he fulfilled an ungracious ...

... IRELAND AND THE LIBERALS. Sib.—l* Ireland in the miserable state alleged by the Whig, or Radical, newspapers, if they like the term better? According these authorities, it was not so till Tory Uorenment earns into power—the inference is once useful and ...

... Sutherland is undeniably and notoriously over-represented, and Peebles not, either in relation to itself or to our system, Whig interests demand a compromise, before injustice, not denied, shall be remedied. In other words, that it don’t matter farthing ...

... perpetrated in England, bat strictly commercial. I m D9i that we bare anj paysioiogists. What we have are exceed ingly like Whigs out of office—extremely promising in the future; their present and past is less satisfactory. The chief scientific physiological ...

... —What I anticipated in my last letter to the Edinburgh Courard has come to pass. Mr Gladstone, Mr Bright, and the other party Whigs did their utmost last year to throw out the Household Safrage Bill, in order to force the Tories to resign, and to get back ...

... that the Scotch people should be deprived for a time cf household suffrage, provided that the Tories are turned ’out and the Whigs are no longer kept out in the cold!’’ Will Mr Baxter yield to such persuasions? I believe not. 1 have too good opinion of him ...

... disorder. They were a mere Bull's Run rabble. Leaders would not lead ; followers would not follow—a spectacle to make honest Whigs weep! Clearly party rushing downwards in swift decline ! And yet, in spite ot the seasonable laughter, he still held by the ...

... see the public departments filled with pensioners and veterans of the type of Clarendon, Viliiers, Sir George Grey, and other Whig supernumeraries. Not being able to accomplish so desirable an object, he most needs, instead of quietly consuming bis own vexation ...