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LITERARY AND ART GOSSIP

... the Stai piec ontlie ground that it wavs 1notsip to the matrk: for fe lypublication. For upwards of 70 years it advocated Whig tim1 principles, but it had latterly been tranisformedl intoW an lsha leorgan of the Conservative party. any lo' Lient. Gender ...

FACETIÆ FROM FUNNY FOLKS

... alteration of the laud laws, it will always be open to the Conservatives to outstrip their opponents, and once more dish the Whigs. But for mere temporary electioneering purposes the only ques- tion- is how far the present Ministerial majority will be sustained ...

LITERATURE

... Lord Ch3srlomonton auled hisle Opposition I - whip. At th i time political agitation was rife in Irelinld, and the Irisu, Whigs, having succeeded iu obtailing freo r trade from the Imperiai Parliament, now pressed for still : further concessiosis. By ...

LITERATURE

... the bye-election for the West Riding in l-id lie appeared in the Cloth Hall Yard at Leeds, first to overwlselan a youthful Whig canididate with confusion, and next to have lis own. ignorance I exposed by a more practised politician. Finding his country ...

LITERATURE

... successor that a sound Conserva- tive Government implied Tory men and Whig measures. s It would have been msuch more true to have said of Mel- 0 bourrie that his Administration consisted of Whig men o and Tory measures. If the House of Commons had been a led ...

LITERATURE

... be sure: the country trusts its own chosen leader, and will exact a severe account from any Liberals- whether they be old Whigs, zealous for the preservation of rabbits, or perfervid Radicals, too eager about some of their annuals, or impatient of any ...

LITERATURE

... and reasons shackle; of And they're not all ducks that cackle, i- No, nor only geese that hiss ! ,d Rid of Tories, and of Whigs' ties, .d He should watch the barley swvell, l XHang his nice old head o'er pigstyes, Sentence poachers, hunt a spell :0 Judge ...

LITERATURE

... ctedt it writer maly study the Great Rebellion anid similar events With aL minei perfectly clear from old constsitutioinal, Whig or Tor3 preconceptions, Land yet take at wholly, mistaken view of it, ;bees use though hie has a philosophy, hisi phhlosopity ...

WIT AND HUMOUR

... capital chance. The q~uestion is, a however, whether or not each Wigan Tory' has not a right to vote for both Tory and Whig candidates ? (From Funny lFolks.); ALLI IN A NAME.-The Irish Lord Chief Justice is ad- i mnirably named. When no one knows ...

LITERATURE

... be n Mht ~es; and Conservatism generally has 4estloai 1 60 bitterly opposed to a reopening of the Laud rd Sh Etes section of Whig opinion reores ented by 4er h, O raneks Mr. Partell and his friends, on the and,) Ac b beid to receive any possible Laad Bill ...

BUT WHAT WILL THEY SAY IN THE LORDS?

... pet of his leader and friends, Litte fondness I ween, in the looks will be seen ?? the Peers'whom its mischief offends. ies a Whig of pure breed ; he's a Peelite in creed; ,To hi jdlgiment high praise each awards; All think it must follow that what he can't ...

REVIEWS

... advanced than JezreelI' . . . The Duke of Argyll is by inference praised for his action, and the writer thinks the action of the Whigs cannot be regarded without shame, and that it will be left to the Conservatives to enact more stringent, measures than were ...