... days, when the representation of a Borough or of a County Division, could but pass iuto the hands of someone who was either a Whig or a Tory, the policy of laisse~-aller, and of compromise, did not much matter. Whoever was returned, at least his con- stituents ...

... It was at this meeting that a subsequent speaker made the magnanimous and truly Liberal declaration, that if the great Whig families of the county would come forward, the Radicals would follow them loyally, without exacting too hard conditions ?? ...

... meat eaters. _A vege- tarian—Shelley, execptio qua probat regulam—ia a Con- servative. Fish eaters are invariably moderate Whigs. The Australasians will he content with nothing short of a turbulent democracy. Those observant persons who have spent any ...