... delinquent Minister is virtually to make all Ministers accountable; and, though the Derby-Disraelites would gladly eject the Whigs, they shrink from doing it by a vote which would make office for ever a terror to their incapacity. :Hence Gen. Peel, who has ...

... keeping things quiet, and preventing as much as possible any temporary derangement of the Government, not caring whether it be Whig or Tory. The address from the influential City firms was intended to inspire confidence and prevent violent fluctuation in ...

... up the alderman's gown, being now provided with a sufficient covering for all weathers.—lbid. WHIGS TRIMDIED ON THE SHORTEST NOTICE.—For trimming an old Whig in the very best style, and giving it a regular good dressing, there is no hand in the business ...

... character, and to prevent it from being used by selfish and ambitious men as a means of political aggrandisement. It was for the Whigs that the leaders of the Anti-Corn Law League, as experience has shown, fought and conquered; and it may be well that there ...

... Steward of the Household, but soon afterwards relinquished that place to Earl Spencer. In politics his grace was a staunch Whig. He was highly incensed at the appointment of Cardinal Wiseman to the Roman Catholic Archbishopric of Westminster in 1853; ...

... question of abstract PaicY—nothing that can be resolved into a Matter of general import or bearing. It is ,not a Liberal, or a Whig, or a Coalition test. he war might have been, as the Government advocates and organs are fond of stating, an act of Lord Derby ...

... governing classes are used up 9'—` Most decidedly; that is my opinion. You think that outside the limits of certain great Whig and Tory houses there are other people capable of forming an Administration?'—' Nothing unnatural in that. And with these ...

... of revolution. Forty years of peace have not cooled the courage of our brave soldiers and sailors, but it has exhausted our Whigs and Tories. During that long period they have dreamed through years of office, drawn large salaries, and adopted occasionally ...

... GATHERINGS FOR THE SCRAP BOOK. AND TORY.—Whig, or Whaig, is the Scotch for Whey, which became a sobriquet of drovers, and a representative of baadits. It was first applied as a nick-name to those who attempted to resist the oppressions practised against ...

... England. The New York papers express great satisfaction at the settlement of the enlistment Question. The King'slon (Canada) Whig states that the feud existing between the two bodies of Orangemen in Canada—a feud that has long been a reproach to the Protestant ...

... seized a kettle-drum, which he threw with such violence At the head of the leader of the band, that he lost his full-bottomed whig by the effort. Without waiting to replace it, he advanced, bearheaded, to the front of the orchestra, breathing vengeance, ...

... Speaker of the House ri Commons, supported by the Conservative party, but Mr. Shaw Lefevre, the present Speaker, supported by the Whig and Likral party, gained the election—there being for Mr. G)ulburn 299 votes against 317 for Mr. Lefevre. The deceased enjoyed ...