... THE WHIGS. John Bun asks :— Is it not high time that really constitutional Whigs should join forces with Conserve• tives P The 'limes talks of a middle party. Well and good if that middle party will really aid to serve the Constitution. But they must ...

... ministered. We confess ourselves astonished and shocked at this Whig jobbing of money which, above all others, ought to be held sacred. The most solemn oath is taken to its appropriation, and we cannot understand how a Secretary of State could sanction ...

... the right Wild of fellowship to the Whigs, who would gladly have joined with it against the common enemy. The answer to this Las always been the same, and has always teen conclusive. It held out. And if the - Whigs were willing to take it, why did they ...

... scared the Whigs into his, toils ; and of timid compliance, well enough befitting the decadence of a garrulous old age, but strangely out of keeping with the prestige of a great party. For themselves, their nonour, and their country the Whigs must rise ...

... whole'strength of the Whig party. The Ballot, therefore, whatever else it did, would effectually dish the Whigs.” They have long been fading awav, something like the golden pippin. Mr. Thackeray said that though he often wished he was a Whig he never saw one ...

... heard in high places. The Times faithfully reflects the signs of the winter of political discontent. Au Independent and Whig bewail, in a series of dolorous strains, the disastrous condition of latter-day statesmanship. The leading journal takes ...

... might operate as a cheek upon the Ultra-Radical tendencies of modern Liberalism. We have been aczustomed to regard the moderate Whig as the better genius of the pronounced Liberal. It has been thought that experience, supported by some attachment to the tried ...

... England encounters just now in the attempt to solve the problem whether he ought to accept the championship of the Liberal Whigs or the Reddest of Radicals. Both are bidding heavily and earnestly for his suffrage, and each outvie the other in the vehemence ...

... power as economical leader of party. How ho has falsified his own words the above figures clearly demonstrate. How long will Whig gentlemen be hoodwinked by political adventurers, who ride into power by promising that which every tyro knows they ore utterly ...

... nothing whatever to do with the question suggested by A Whig as to the existence or non-existence of a Conservative reaction. We will merely remark that the string of definitions propounded by A Whig of Liberalism are so broad and elastic that they might ...

... been given, Sir George Hamilton Seymour is not dire. posed to wait for the ultimate deoision. He no longer (says the Belfast Whig), through Mr. Walter Stannus, affectionately entreat, the tenants to pay him the rents, but demands them under the threat of ...

... collar all he can. Where are the 2,000 P Are they Tories, or are they nursing their wrath in silence like the Surrey and Truro Whigs ? Let the Liberals say. No doubt a ball can be filled in Glasgow to cheer the Minister, but the weight of their approval ...