... the hustings of taking a black-eye rather than lose the election, and of his parrot, whom he has taught to say, Damn the Whigs ! is not a man at all to our taste. Singularly enough, those qualities of reckless vulgarity and personal degradation which ...

... sincere and as patriotic in his statesmanship as are any of his contemporaries; but we fear he is not quite free from that Whig 'weakness; family pride, which may easily and almost unconsciously assume the guise and - condescend to the arts of nepotism ...

... would involve. The hostilities which exist between Church and Dissent are not like the hostilities which have existed between Whig and Tory. The Church - is religious in its aim and purpose; so is Dissent. The Church is Christian; so is Dissent. The' Church ...

... man of great scientific and general learnillb' but interferes with little beyond his professil perfectly indifferent to both Whig-and Tory, that member of the Ministry known as the ,dent of the Poor Law Board, for the time beig,' who invariably excites ...

... of rollick, and of college-liberty broken loose should be done away with. Except that there was far more of the nonsense of Whig-and-Tory . antagonism in the Rectorial contests than befitted their nature, the elections, I fancy, were honest and judicious ...

... Whiteside rose to call attention to the, state of Ireland. He condemned the systematic misgovernment of that country under the Whigs, and especially blamed the legal appointments which had been made by . Lord Chancellor Brady, indulging in a gross personal ...

... a Bill to amend the procedure of the county courts of the sister kingdom.-- Mr. B. Ferrand Rttacked the mode in which the Whigs distributed the appointments in connection with the Charity Commission, and moved for certain returns, a motion to which the ...

... Government. Mr. Surtees, the Conservative candidate, has been returned for Hertfordshire by a majority of 250 votes over the Whig candidate. We have to record the death of Mr. Leonard Horner, F.R.S., who was for many years one of the most active co-operators ...

... far enough. Nobody can tell what may come of a popular excitement so intense as that we now see. One of the most staid of our Whig contemporaries has said of it, in an unguarded moment, that it is a turning point in our time. But who wants the time to ...

... small gathering about his parrot and what he had taught him to say; and how he had required no teaching to anathematize the whigs. A local paper commenting on this says: The bird and the master are in this respect somewhat alike. Beyond a propensity for ...

... THE LAST HOURS OF PRINCE ALBERT. THERE has reached us (Northern Whig) from abroad a most interesting extract from a letter which was written by a member of the Queen's household shortly after the death of Prince Albert. The extremely confidential position ...

... thereby. At one time there was but one meeting to celebrate the memory of Colston ; but politics crept in, Tories went one way, Whigs another ; and those who were content to sink their politics for the time, remained. So that there are three meetings, all on ...