... 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 ...

... With the Liberals and their extreme friends, the Radical section of politicians, it was far different, and each section of the Whig party has worked very strenuously to secure the triumph of the respective candidates. There was but little excitement apparent ...

... before he was Loin, after the enactment of the first Reform Bill, when a dreadful Conservative reaction set in, and the old Whig prancers, having taken to jibbing, were taken out of the family coach and replaced by a steadier and stronger team. Mr. Trevelyan ...

... the influence of the house of Dundas, has not succeeded in defeating his opponent, but he has struck a death-blow to that Whig tyranny which holds Richmond captive. We thank him for this exploit. Radical though be is, the service he has rendered to the ...

... fortunes of the Government are to be repaired is remarkable for its simplicity. A new alliance is to be patched up between the Whigs and the Conservatives. The basis of the pact is to be moderation. Forbearance and respect for family influence and property ...

... greater prescience than other people, but the contingent programme which, as a moderate Liberal, he propounds to an exclusive Whig constituency, commends itself as a wise and convenient one, under conditions extremely probable. In the clever and successful ...

... that the present policy of the Ministry is to abandon the Radicals, as quietly as may be, and effect a fusion between the Whigs and Conservatives, preserving the personal leadership of Mr. Gladstone, Lord Granville, and the Marquis of Hartington, and ...

... 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; ...

... Insurance companies. IN the action for libel brought by Mr. Stannus, formerly agent of the Hertford estates, against the Northern Whig, for unfavourable comments on his conduct towards the tenantry, a motion to change the venue to Belfast was yesterday rejected ...

... party is still divided between Mr. Ronayne, who represents the Nationalists, and Mr. Mathew, who is supported by the Old 'Whigs. Mr. Pim refuses to accept the programme of the Home Rule Association, believing it to be inconsistent with the integrity of ...

... by renouncing its historic titles, by addressing the constituencies in a jargon borrowed from the vocabulary of decrepid Whigs, by affecting quasi-Liberal airs, by vague and empty commonplaces about progress —by its buts, and '6 adthoughs, and ...

... acceptance of Mr. Laing by the Conservative leaders. In Forfar. shire, a purely agricultural a onstitnency, the dominant Whig influence is represented by Sir James Ramsay of Banff, who seems also to be accepted by the local Conservatives as a safe ...