... studying it as I best could, I have, come to the conclusion that the real meaning of the British Constitution was this — that the Whigs and the Tories replaced one another at periodic times, always to the advantage of the country. Our senior member, without ...

... borrowing to be effected. Then Churchmen and Dissenters in point of feeling towards each other become temporary Christians ; aud Whigs, Tories and Radicals unite for the moment as if they belonged to the same country and had interests in common. It appears, ...

... clear; and he will in all probability slake use of his influence o*er Lord Hartfngtbn'to rally to his side most of the 'great Whig noble*. If it could be shown in plain English how the political principles of this school of politicians differ from those ...

... speech before the municipal authorities of Boston, on the True Grandeur of Nations. He had been known up to this time as a Whig, bnt his avowal of peace princi- ples, in regard to the war with Mexico, and his opposi- tion to the annexation of Texas, on ...

... bill of the Whigs. more room for Toryism,” it was said, “while British politics endure.” Yet there was room, and more. The Whigs fell, and fell unwept and unsung. Why was this ? “ Action and reaction,” Mr. Disraeli would say : “ The Whigs are demoralised ...

... years by both Conservatives and Liberals. Xon quiet# movert. Who cares for such timid maxims now-a-days except it be an Old Whig like myself f A few years *go tenant-right agitation was hardly heard of. agrarianism was extinct, and even the most bigoted ...

... charge, which every one knew to be unfounded, tbat he bad not forgotten that the bite Sergeant-at- Arms was a Russell and a Whig. What was probably an oversight was compensated for thia evening by a hearty tribute of praise to the retiring official. A ...

... CORRESPONDENCE THE BRADFORD OBSERVER, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1870. GENERAL NEWS The Xorthern Whig and Cork Reportn have articles approving the policy of the Government m releasing the political prisoners. . _ , , ,~ The Marquis of Ely has gone to 1 1 eland ...

... observes that its own leaning is very decidedly to Mr. Forster, who seem 6 precisely the choice necessary to neutralise a certain Whig exclusiveness which would belong to a Ministry led by Lord Granville, unless there were a thoroughly popular leader in the ...

... dignity. This is not the wish of the Radicals or of any section of the Liberal party, unless perhaps the few remnants of the old Whigs who nurse the tradition that their advent to power was the result of steady opposition to the Duke of Wellington's army management ...

... a coalition between Whigs and Tories may be accounted of .mall va'ue The elections wiH not leave the Conservatives with much sense of the need of Whig assistance, and even if such need existed, it would not be easy to find the Whigs Fibe IS YEDDO.-On the ...

... to rally round the Amnesty Committee, and assist that body to defeat the un- Irish and unpatriotic oonduct of the O'Connell Whig Cen- tenary Committee. Sale op Property and ?? AT idle.* Yesterday evening, at the Oddfellows' Hall, Idle, Messrs. E. Walmsley ...