... always been the course of affairs, the Whigs at first submnerged, and then, as the forr? nil the torrernt dimi;nishes. rising again to the top. It does not appear, when electors are becoming Conservative, very hard for Whig representa. tives to become Conservative ...

... this circum- stance as a guarantee of success. The ilforninc Herald, -on the oher baud, declares that Lord Melbourne and ether whig peers will vote against it. The Manchester Gemardican explains that Lord Melbourne, Lord Nor- flianby, Lord iove'ace, and ...

... Strirklaiid (Whig), Colonel Evans (Whig), Mlr L b . Lton J3n r (Whiug), Sir Samleel WVhalley (Atadi. teal), Mir liumo (Radical), Mr Hardy (Tory), Colonel S G\uod ( Tory), N r Ward (Whig), Sir Thes. Ereemantle ( lr Saney (Whig), Air Toxver ( ...

... party which has trusted him, which means that the Old Cause and the troublesome Old Man are not to be got rid of by either Whigs or Radicals. Indeed, his letter reads like an appeal over the heads of both sections. The battle of the franchise, he says ...

... his party has to cling to ; but the name of the great whig leader con- ciliates few supporters and enlists no proselytes. This is no new thing. For the second tino in twelve years we see the whig party in a state of disorganisation and dissolution, and ...

... opinion. We believe it to be very true that, in their real opinions, the moderate Whigs do not essentially differ from the moderate Tories. Then it insinuates that the Whigs might, not discreditably, go into such a scheme. Their junction with such enemies ...

... 3714. Accordingly Sir John Fyhs, Micajah i'erry, Humphrey panon^ Efn; and John Barnard, Efq; were returned uue'y EkCted. Tlie Whig Party who boafted fo much of their Inrereft, tfie Weight of Influence, &c. have found themfelves banked in their Expectation^ ...

... Letter informs me of your Intention to be a Can- - dfd-ate for the enfuing Parliament, deirring fnyTnterelt, its ' your Brother Whig, in your Behalf I do declare myfclf, Sir, Principles, wnich were always rather for decreafing the Power 'of the CroWf^'as ...

... in 1453. It has been besieged twenty times in the course of several centuries. 1s1AsxAn.-The terms Whig and Tory were first used in 1680. The term Whig was applied to the Scotch Covenanters routed by Monmouth, and afterwards trans- ferred to those Englishmen ...

... been enormous. TLe use of colours, of coarse, eates from an earlier period than the election contests of Whig and Tory. We find a true blue Whig a common designation in the early part of the reign of George I. Is is not by any means clear how any modern ...

... creating, as we anticipated, but as the whigs did not (or, if they did, they betrayed what would then have been their duty, viz., strenuously to oppose it) consi- derable discontent; and of that discontent the whigs, as a party, are now anxious (with what ...

... present day they are widely separated. They are not Tories, nor Whig, nor Whig-Radicals, nor Chartists. They are opposed to the protective immunities on land claimed by both Tories and Whigs; they visit with their indignation'the poor truckling policy of ...