... experience of Whig rule ; but now the case is widely different. Ten years have opened its eyes to the hollowness of Whig promises, and shown to it the meagreness of Whig performances. The country is now fully alive to the nature of Whig professions, and ...

... WHIG ROYALTY. The ink in which the Conservative party were written down as disloyal enemies of their Queen is scarcely dry, when we find one of her Majesty's late devoted champions offering the remarks which follow: -- Is it intended as a mark of spite ...

... THE WHIGS AND THE PEERAGE. The recent rapid accession of numbers to the peerage cannot ail to attract the notice of even the most casual observer, and the unceremonious manner in which the hangers-on of the Whig faction have been pi:chforked into that ...

... THE WHIGS AND THE CHARTISTS. On Monday evening a meeting was held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand, the ostensible object of which was to make a demonstration in favour of a repeal of the corn laws, but in reality, as appeared by the resolutions ...

... INCERITY OF THE WHIG NOBILITY. (FROM HINTS TO THE ARISTOCRACY.) But there is one class of the aristocracy to whom, in an especial manner, the weight of historical censure is duethat is, the Whig nobility : the great and old families, once the ornament ...

... THE VICTORIA, WHIG DINNER. The example of the Conservatives of Canterbury was, it seems, not lost upon the liberals. The Tory note of preparation sounded as an alarm to the whigs, and they consequently resolved on having a blow out. The spread was made ...

... of feeling, and the discomfited and wo-begone Whigs excited the risibility of the meeting by their gestures and movements at so sudden and unexpected a defeat from their quandam friends. Finally the Whigs escaped to a hole and corner adjoining, where ...

... WHIG LAW REFORMS. The blessings of Whig legislation are daily becoming more conspicuous. Infinite confusion has been introduced into the arrangements of the legal profession, merely from a spiteful attempt to get rid of the divisions of the ecclesiastical ...

... WHIG-RADICAL PURISTS. It is curious to observe how complete a revolution a mere change of position may effect in some minds, and how wonderfully sharp and keen they become in the detection, and how indignantly eloquent they grow in the denunciation of ...

... A WHIG LEGACY. Amongst the variety of Whig legacies of which the country has yet to enjoy the benefit, Lord Ebrington's reform in our Weights and Measures occupies no mean place. It is one, too, which is chiefly monopolised by the classes whom that noble ...

... THE WHIG CHARTER TOAST. The charter toast of the Whig club— The Liberty of the Press; it is like the air we breathe, if we have it not we die, has been uniformly passed over at all the late liberal celebrations. At Edinburgh there was a reason for this ...

... THE NEW WHIG DICTIONARY. Edited by RUSSELL, JOHN, Esq., F.R.S., and A. SS. Published by LAME, Curto, LITTLEJOHN, and DAN, Westminster, and Merion-square, Dublin. This laborious work has evidently been taken in hand by men firmly determined to overcome ...