... THE WHIG REFORM BILL BECALMED. The Reform Bill (exclaims the Timet of Saturday) has turned out a heavy sailer; it does not, as sailors say, behave well. It swims by no means lightly on the troubled waters. But the greatest of all its faults is, that ...

... WHIG'S OPINION OF PROTECTION. There seems to be general feeling that the opinion of the country is to taken upon the question of free trade in corn before the present House of Commons shall have terminated its existence by effluxion of time. Should such ...

... leader of the Whigs the Commons. We have, these columns, frequently said of late, that the matter of Liberal support to a measure of Reform, put forward by a Conservative Government, it was not to Mr Gladstone and the officeseeking Whigs we should look ...

... WHIG v. CONSERVATIVE FINANCE. (From the Press.) Finance has always been stumbling-block in the path the Whigs. Their desire to obtain present popularity has involved the country much unnecessary expense. Consequently their ascendancy since has been paid ...

... still call themselves Whigs it is hard to stand; for their two jealousy of the Crown and fear of , are gone real. “tes clear, however, that just at present the and is between the former, as Mr Harcourt Chambers sa: ves; and if the Whigs belong to don’t they ...

... to more recent times, the Whigs have done pisitively nothing since 1846, which stamps them as distinct from the Conservatives. The free-trade battle was not a fight at all between the Whigs and the Conservatives. Numerous Whigs disapproved of the repeal ...

... A WHIG COMMISSION DISSECTED. It has been intimated to us that we have exaggerated the expenee entailed upon the country by the Whigs in the appointments of the host Locust Commissioners. We knew at the time we gave the amount, although we were writing ...

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