... shifting of opinions by which the staunch Whig of one generation found him- self stranded and left behind as a Tory by the next gene- ration. Once upon a time we called the advanced guard of politicians New Whigs, now we call them Radicals. EARL RUSSELL ...

... a Whig humbug for not resigning at an earlier hour of the day ? Sir Sydney is no more a Whig than Mr. Odger is a metaphy. sician. He tells us that the old Whigs have declared war against workin, men as representatives. Where are the old Whigs? Where ...

... as we do that there have been Whigs and Tories, trider various aopellations, ever since the world began, and although we do not wish to imitate his acrimony by stating the name (according to Dr. Johnson) of the first Whig, we cannot admit that one party ...

... them; but he could remember when, as a Whig baby, he was taught to look on a Dissenter as being much in the same category as a murderer, and on a Dissenting chapel as a den of iniquity, to be quickly passed by. The Whig babies of a ?? generation had not these ...

... unnecessary pain. We should have liked Whig Reviewers, as Painted by Them- selves, in B'lackwood better, but for a certain self-righteousness of tone that pervades the article. See, it seems to say, how these Whig-Radicals of the Edinbiaghz hated each ...

... real and fictitious, belong to the period of the story -the reign of William the Third-in something more than in name. His Whigs and Jacobites are men of the time, with all the prejudicec, political and social, of that troubled period, and lastly his dialogue ...

... the policy of carping and cavilling, depreciation of English successes, and prophecies of English failures, pursued by the Whig Opposition under Lords Grey and Holland, and Tierney, Romilly, and Brougham, throughout the Peninsular War. The sketch, we ...

... the pulpit. The earlier a strair alto0 Us catheriseavy. Who in these days cares esislo .lp ahe length of time which former Whig Ministries nt ehope weliave outlived the era of see-saw govern- moat vbich ?? carry Tory ?? down. A Govern- tout the wishes ...

... people walk across Lincoln's Inn Fields, though there was no moon. . . . The Whigs said it 'was God's judgment on the horrid rebellion, and the Tories said that it came from the Whigs taking off the two lords that were executed. I could hardly make my chairmen ...

... long spells of office. At the present moment Scotland and Wales return 6r Whigs against 29 Tories, and, if we add the somewhat doubtful Home Rule Brigade of the sister isle to the Whig side, the Liberals command a majority in the United Kingdom (exclusive ...

... Boys procession being severely animad- verted onr by Mr. Johnston, the member for Belfast, Lord Ilartington, the very Whig of very Whigs, was driven into some- thirg like a sneer at tthe glorious and immortal, &c., and was obliged to admit that to rely ...

... his hero far too much even to canvass the pro. priety or consistency of any of his public acts. On the other hand, he rates Whigs and Radicals too low even to attempt to deck them outasfoemenworthy ofthe steel. Ilis light contemptuouis way of treating thend ...