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- WHIG RETRENCHMENT

... economical Whigs. We have plenty more in store for them, but we do not intend to waste all our ammunition at once. Let our friends print this No. 1 of Increased Whig Expenditure, and post it in large placards in every town where any profligate Whig dare show ...

THE DISMISSED WHIGS AND THEIR PENSIONS

... THE DISMISSED WHIGS AND THEIR PENSIONS. Earl Grey, First Lord of the Treasury £2,000 Lord Althorp, Chancellor of the Exchequer 2,000 Lord Auckland, President of the Board of Trade and afterwards First Lord of the Admiralty 2,000 Charles Grant, President ...

---------WHAT HAVE THE WHIGS DONE 1

... WHAT HAVE THE WHIGS DONE 1 In answer to a correspondent, we give the following brief list of their deeds during the last ten years. We wish they had done more, but we must be thankful for what we receive f. Taken oiT taxes to the amount G,235,00(1 Lo ...

TO-DAY'S MARKETS. I

... MR PARNELL AND HOME RULE. The Northern Whig says:—Notwithstanding Mr Parnell's contradiction. it is a fact that the Liberal Unionist members have been sounded by the Homo Rule party on the question of local government for Ireland. ...

IFROM THE LONDON CtAaaTTES.-II 11-

... the use of the sextant. A FELINE ALLPGORY.t cat is treacherous, so is a Whig; a cat is spiteful, so is a Whig; cats are cruel and tyrannicaLto creatures in their power, so ape Whigs. The profession of a cat is to detect and per- secute small plunderers; ...

THE ELECTIONS..,'

... -Huglies, vice Paget. Total, four4 with former gains. thirty-two. The Ministerial Whigs have also driven out one of their quondam friends, Sir J. Johnstone, a Conserva- tive Whig, at Scarborough; but they have failed in their opposition to Ald. Thompson and ...

NAPOLEON'S FINANCES

... Queen's daughter is the wife of an important political personage, who is the son of a Minister of the time being, a Whig, and the head of a Whig connection. Sucli a relation is not calcu- lated to enhance the prestige of royalty in this coun- try. It can be ...

lPAST EVENTS IN OUR ISLAND .RECALLED

... examination of cer- tain Post Office officials at the Bar of the House, Mr Disraeli described Sir Robert Peel as having canght the Whigs' bathing and ran off with their clothes. I860 -At this time important financial changes were made in India by Mr James Wilson ...

PAST EVENTS IN OUR ISLAND RECALLED

... 1840—Severe strictures were passed on the Tory Press for affecting to believe that the attempt of Oxford on the Queen a mere Whig trick to secure the Ministry in office. 1848—Joseph Hume advanced a resolution in the Commons to the effect that the House ...

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS

... declared bv the sheriff, but with a confession of doubt, to bo favourable to the Whig candidate, if ni:;v now call him such, Mr Ilanbury. The sheriff is said to be a Whig, and many who attended the proceed- ings impugned the justice of his decision the ...