... became known tliat we were about to be inflicted with the calamity of a purely Whig Mlinistry, they fell to 93i 4, or 92a a ex- dividend. We shall be curious to see bow the Whigs will work Sir Robert Peel's Currency and Banking Bill. If there were no other ...

... up at the spur of the moment, for the purpose of scaring the country from their propriety, and as a clap-trap to keep the Whigs in pewer. The English Funds are necessarily stagnant, for in the con- fusion which will arise by the rejection of this Budget ...

... of nineteen mnitlions sterling! TRADE AND OPINIONS ATj Manchester. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The sudden Ousting of the Whigs, and the instalment of the Conservatives created the greatest sensation in this heart of Free-trade, and the name of Derby ...

... employing their money, and increasing their rest, and thus the public will rush into all sorts of speculations. We believe'the Whigs, with their usual financial blundering, have resolved to increase the income tax; those moles cannot see that a full and free ...

... laughed in his sleeve when he heard the Government declare that it was unconstitutional to limit the amount of calls. But the Whigs invariably mismanage our finances. We expect, before they again return to the barren rock of Opposition, that we shall be in ...

... more in demand than last week. The question which now occupies the mind of the financial public is the Budget. As usual in Whig Budgets there is a deficiency on the 5th of January last. It amounted, in round numbers, to three millions; and, as it is certain ...

... wonld take place in the prices. The present crisis in Ireland has been mainly brought about by the bungling legislation of the Whigs seven years ago, when they lost a glorious opporta- nity of tranquillising both countries; but as to the public agi- tation ...

... and expended in the country, unless at the call of the most imperative necessity. The financial reverses which at- tended the Whig-bidding for popularity, in a wholesale reduc- tion of taxation, should have rendered Sir Robert-for the mea- sure must be ...

... America, while they were in power, brought America from. the greater prosperity to the verge of bankruptcy. Their brethren, the Whigs of England, are fast following in their footsteps. When they are removed, England, like America, will revive. In commercial ...

... repute, might chance to divide the honour, if he dare attempt to do the deed. In Salford Mr. Brotherton retires, if the Whigs can manage to office his son (a young barrister) before they bid farewell to the Treasury benches ; if not, most pro- bably ...

... its merit, but it is the return of prospe- ritv, after the deplorable financial difficulties in which those now crest-fallen Whigs left us that we rejoice in. When the Conservatives came into power, Sir Robert Peel, in March 1842, thus describes our financial ...

... veryprobable they will be refused, and that a change of administration will be the result. The Locofocos will give place to the Whigs, who would conclude a peace with Mexico on honourable terms, if any terms, indeed, can be called honourable which does not ...