... 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 ...

... in hands-with blue blood in them_1 t'O en coronated Whigs, are to mark ties ed where such common clay as tenant farnte50 are made of must set their crosses upan e- the voting papers. iy Truly, the Whigs resemble the Bourton s, in this, that they have learned ...

... I THE DESERTION OF THE WHIGS. I The Whigs are rapidly deserting Mr. Glad- stone. The Marquis of Lansdowne has re- sirned the Under-secretarysbip of State for Iuidia, in consequence of the new complexion which has been Oiven to Mr. Forster's Com- pensation ...

... is haunted that the Tories have been masquerading in robes that only'fit e Whigs, and that Whigs alone are entitled to V wear. Indeed it is not indisposed to claim that the Whig rate of progress would be more decorously gradual than' that of the Tories ...

... Edinburgh and Mid-Lothian under the auspices of Mr Adamn, himself a Whig of the Whigs, and the acting executor of the policy of Lord Hfartington and his friends?1 But we feel that the Whigs are laying themselves open to something like a charge of ingratitude ...

... because even so we believe that the Conservatives of England might yet make a stand against Whigs and Radicals united. But we cannot un- derstand why the Whigs should wish for such a con- test, rather than a. union with those whose opinions, whose interests ...

... article in the Edinburgh Review which discourses on what the writer calls Plain Whig Principles, and in which advocates tho reconstitution of tho Liberal party on Whig basis. The article is an anachronism, for the Liberal party is already reconstituted ...

... FAILURE OF THE WHIG CONSPIRACY. The meeting of Whig members of the House of Commons to consider the Disturbance Bill was a complete failure. It was called by a body of Whig malcontents, the SOD of the Speaker being one of them. But although circulars ...

... for principle would bring Whig and Tory together, the interests of party may still keep them separate. This of course can be true only of the Whigs. The party interests of the Tories would favour a coalition with. the Whigs as soon as possible, and it ...

... power held as the Whigs hold it, solely by the tenure of their acres, and not by-the strength of their heads, is at the best a precarious possession. If every Whig left the House of Commons'to-morrow, and was followed by the Whig lords who sit in the ...

... leaders or followers urge him, almost frantically, to legislate at any cost, and to put oppositioi, whether it proceeds from Whigs, Tories, or Home-Rulers, under his heel. This would be very well if the elements of opposition were so weak as to be easily ...

... introduced, will be found rather strong meat for the digestion of the Whig peers who form part of the present Administration. There will be a rupture in the Cabinet, peoplo say. The Whig Peers generally will retire from it. These eminent seceders will find ...