THE REVIEWS

... police. So far as the traditional principles of Whigs or l'ories are concerned, it is obvious that the changes demannded to give further resources to the executive coin. cide with Tory notions, not with Whig. It would have seemned indeed strange to our older ...

WIT AND HUMOUR

... like all barbers, an enthusiastic pole-itioian, wants to know if we consider the modern Radicals as the Hairs of the old Whigs. PROVERB ORll POOL,-A ball in hand's worth two in baulk. INNOCENT ENJOYMSENT.-Citizen: Did a good sthroke o' bithneth yethterday ...

WHAT THE WORLD SAYS

... Option, though, like him, also a ' B. of B. ?? as the Claimant would put it-who was widely known e as a mild and contented Whig; but who suddenly i roused himself' to give active and powerful sup- I port to Mr Dawnay's candidature during the recent t ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... election the compact ranks of tb- thei t party were enormously strengthened by the open 1oradh toin of several of the leading Whigs of the coneti- teesy- yt ut ofthel11,884 voters who pulled, they ?? had c mly a majorit oron.M. o adowas ththu doiabtedlY an ...

JAMES MILL.*

... Radicalism of men like Cobbett and Hunt might be sincere, but its theories were crude and its enthusiasm fitful. The respectable Whigs of Holland House and the Edibiburg/ Reziew may riot have been, as Mill thought and said, mere half-hearted timieservers and ...

EDUCATIONAL THEORIES.*

... (chap. xi.) is new and interest- ing. His parallel between the educated Roman and the English Whig(p. i 9) is worth transcribing. The purest type of the English Whig, fond of freedom, but fonder of his order, inspired with a traditional respect for learn- ...

FASHION AND VARIETIES

... inhabitants. Since then Mr. Patrick Reilly, TC.. Shop-street, has come for- ward as a claimant for the office, supported by the Whig element of the Corvorztionl. A close struggle for the office is anticipated. ALLEGED MALICIOUS INJURY. Yesterdav at the Castlecomer ...

Occasional Notes

... the Board of Trade, one being the Mayor of Birming- ham, came up for election at the Reform Club, It being rumoured that the Whig section of the Club were organizing opposition, steps were taken to secure their election. A strong whip was issued, and was ...

THE COUNTRY AND CLOTURE

... NAAS. This morning the following placard was extensively posted in all the towns of the county Kildare:- Men of Kildare. A Whig Government which has a made truth a crime in Ireland is now prepam ing to f silence the voices of our reprecentativts in al ...

LETTER CCXXVII

... were ascribed to the Senate of Magna Lilliputia, and as the speakers lay much at his mercy he naturally l took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it. This style of reporting readily lent itself to caricature. Hence often after a spell ...

RECAPTURED RHYMES.*

... Wigged by Conservative chiefs who ap- Have I as one two Commissioners reckoned pointed him, or Cursed and conscerved by the Whigs who Is there a brace of Prime Ministen attacked; here ? Feathered and tarred by the priests who Are there two Gladstones, a ...

Literature

... Macaulay's writings, and, despite the cheap seorn of some contemporary seribblers, it may well be doubted whether the great Whig historian has had any rival in the present century as regards purity and clearness of style, Thackeray, George Eliot, and ...