... merely on account of the pledges. Whig electors supported Whig candidates, and Tory electors supported Tory candidates, so that whatever pledges were given as to particular measures, the Whig member was returned by Whig votes and the Tory member by Tory ...

... recent speech of Mr. Moncreiff to his constituents, Mr. Disraeli proceeded to show that the Tories had as good a right as the Whigs to take up and settle the Reform question. The long historical disquisitions On which he entered, were not needed to prove ...

... insoluble. Having got our legislative and administrative machine, the grand thing will be to use it, not so as to put Tory, Whig, or Radical, as such, into office, but to sift out the best men who can be had to conduct the several departments of the a ...

... the Liberals in the competition for popular support; the Tories have passed a Radical Reform Bill with the assistance of the Whigs. It has been a startling and bewildering scene, not highly honourable to the main actors, certainly, but yet perhaps not altogether ...

... competitive examination ? Never. Have the Whigs deprecated the legitimate influence of property? Ask the Whig lords. Ask the Bank of England—the Whig bank. Ask the upper-middle classes, whose party the Whigs have ever been. Does Mr. DISRAELI recollect ...

... ItliePularity, in exile from office, under the frown of ; l e Court, Whigs maintained against Tories the struggle e . r the r i g ht s o f N oncon f orm ists, and that-large proportion of those Whigs were Churchmen. the best of our understanding, the principle ...

... bringing him forwafd as they did, they thought they might catch, as we believe they did catch, a number of the discontented Whigs, who detest Maclaren and Miller. They knew Lord Stanley was the best name to conjure with in the desperate attempt to rally ...

... hustings asked when the revolution begin. He was told that there would be no revolution, and that, when the contest was over, the Whig and partisans would be good neighbours and the best 0 , friends. Freedom from bitterness and fro m persona l illwill has always ...

... CONDITION OF THE SOUTH. The Richmond Whig says the evacuation of Jackson left in the enemy's hands the rolling stock of the Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern, ---MississiPpi Central, and Mississippi Tennessee Railroad. Over forty engines were lost. ...

... year was inconsistent with the constitution of the Free Church, two of the counsel, who are Whigs, differ entirely from the other two, who are Tories. The two Whigs, Mr. Rutherford Clark and Mr. Balfour, hold that the overture was quite constitutional, while ...

... the Saturday Review at the idea of an ass o ciation b etwe en the Cabinet and Mr. Bright has not startled the high and dry Whigs into a demonstration sufficiently formidable to influence the intentions of Government, and we may hope that it has not startled ...

... Scotsman has to-day devoted a column to its consideration. The mention of the leading Whig organ, naturally enough, suggests a question or two respecting the attitude of the Whigs—l mean official Whigstowards the present Kirkcaldy contest. At the last election ...