... it impossible to free themselves. The House of Zetland proves a • more potent bugbear than we anticipated. That a fine old Whig family should do its utmost to hold the constituency enthralled is of course perfectly natural; bat that the local Conservatives ...

... had stormed and Mane hester had sighed so many , weary years under the Ministries of genial and vigorous, but indifferent Whig statesmen of the bad old school. Years have passed, and the stepson of 'Liberalism has redeemed the gushing promises of a debtor ...

... a Conservativ e return on another occasion. Then again Richmond hasbem known to the world as one of the last remains of the Whig system of nomination boroughs. A gallant spirit, if such an inspiration could be supposed to possess our Conservative party ...

... wise to flaunt the threat of resignation so rudely in the face of a majority so strangely and wonderfully comnounded. The Whigs ...

... especially his responsible Irish administrators, will take it to heart and inwardly digest it. The scandalous exhibition.uf a Whig Lord-Lieutenant of a county, who is des oured by the zeal of a convert to Roman Catholicism of the deepest Ultramontane dye ...

... classes are rerfectly indifferent to the warfare waged between politicians. They care= ' little for Tories as for Whigs, or for Radicals as for Whigs or Tories. They are anxious to see a House of Commons constituted of members, no matter what may be their shades ...

... THIRD PARTY. A tertiary formation composed of worn-out Radicals and exhausted Whigs is not a very promising discovery for the political geologist. A dilapidated middle-class Whig of the economic species, who thirty years ago might have been an advanced Liberal; ...

... cause have ended in smoke. There is to be no fight for any of the three Scotch vacant seats—that is to say, no fight between Whig or Radical and Tory. yet the Scotch aristocracy has such a hold upon the people of Scotland that if those of them who aro ...

... reached, and in face of a common danger lay all their antipathies aside ; so the omnium getherum on the Liberal benches, the old Whig and young Republican, the philosophic Radical of the universities,and the very unphilosophic but extreme Liberal of the great ...

... Kensington are not held to be applicable to the humble denizens of Bethnal-green and Whitechapel. The Liberal Government of the Whigs will not consent that the people at the East-end shall be favoured with the same facilities for enjoyment which are freely ...

... regular play-goers among us has exhibited such interest in a play. When Cato was first produced, each political party, Whig and Tory, interpreted certain passages relating to liberty in favour of itself, and consequently made the play the universal ...

... one of which is almost sure to desert on a critical occasion Whig owners of small boroughs and rulers of counties, who like Mr. Disraeli better than Mr. Bright; Radicals who think the Whigs little better than Tories; English Revolutionists and Irish Fenians ...