... THE WHIGS. At the meeting at Wadebridge Mr. Agar Robartes expounded, as in duty bound, his political principles to his prospective constituents of East Cornwall, rand expatiated warmly upon the virtues of the Whigs, ex- tolled the purity of their principles ...

... WHIG PRESCIENCE. In Jul}', 1870, Parliament was informed that Europe was in profound peace. Events thus followed :— 1. July 7.— Thre ts of War betweeu France aud Prussia. 2. August 2.—Battle of Siarbriic. 3. August 4.—Battle of Wisseuiburg. 4. August ...

... BATING THE LEEK. From John o'Groats to Dover, The Whigs have won the day, For Ministerial clover The Liberals leave their hay But s eds of their pseudologies Yield follies of the week, For Faweett posts apologies, And Gladstone eats the leek. We laugh ...

... 1702. Queen Anne reigning, Lord Godolphin, a Whig Premier. ~ Penny stamp put newspapers by the Whigs. ~ Dissenters prevented keeping schools the Whigs. ~ Patronage restored in the Church of Scotland by the Whigs. 1715. George I. King. Earl of Mar, a Tory ...

... The greater, after all, must contra the less. The Whip exist for the Libels' party, not the Liberal party for the Whigs. To do the real Whig leaders justice, they are ands no each dehudons. We never hear the Marquis of Haarta'oron betraying by a single ...

... their readers, assuredly most impudent ,jJ. et tell that Liberals and not Radicals are S«« national councils. Ultimately the Whigs w . j elect between the Conservatives and the R» d latter will not always consent to be hewers J*' drawers of water for these ...

... for it, he is not, in the slightest degree, afraid of it. He has done what few Whigs have ever done—he has won the confidence of the Radicals without estranging the Whigs themselves. Lord Hartington knows that, in the state of things under which we are ...

... this the present Government have added to its cost and stringency. The Whigs exempted from its operation all children above 13 years of age; the Tories included all under 14. The Whigs compelled the providing a school within three miles of every dwelling ...

... of Hartington would have liked it, but he had no substantial claim to it. The young Whig Marquis knew quite well all that was passing through the mind of the older Whig Earl. Both were placed upon the horns of a dilemma, from which the only rescue with ...

... claim to Marquis of Hartington would have liked it, but substantial claim to it. The young Whig Marqt» quite well all that was passing through the mind f * older Whig Earl. Both were placed upon the dilemma, from which the only rescue with dignity in both ...

... ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY ONE. In 1841 the Whigs were turned out of office, after nine years of a Reform Bill. They left— 1. France Alienated. 2. America on the brink of war. 3. War in Syria. 4. War with China. 5. War with Afghanistan. 6. A ...

... Hartington's would have been had he undertaken to form a Ministry. In such a case he, representing in his own person the great Whig interests, would have felt bound, in order to complete the representation of the party, to ally himself with the Radical section ...