... put to me, if T should not satisfy him by the observations T may make. Our government is, in the hest interpretation, neither Whig nor ‘Tory, if 1 may be al lowed the use of terms almost absalete, and certainly not well understood in gencral, It isa mixed ...

... considerable influence in other quarters. I [ am convinced every gentleman Liere is aware that a mere chiange of meu—whether Whig or Tory—is not of the smallest ronuqnence. It is a change of measures alone tiat can. have the desired cffect of renovating ...

... friends. A veil was drawn over the long period of Tory misrule; and the comparatively brief and certainly powerless period of Whig mismanagement was delineated in colours ten times darker than it really wore, and the sober truth is bad enough, It was hinted ...

... twin pests of Britain. There has been a mighty washing-tub storm raging for a bygone week or ten days, amongst the Tory and Whig papers, anent the appointment of Admiral Fleming to the Governorship of Greenwich Hospital. The Tories first charged him with ...

... Scotland mere Whig and Tory are iames of no strength whatever, They are worn-out distinctions —badges so blanched in colour, and so dimmed in the legends which they bear, that we can no longer decipher their meaning : we cannot say whe. ther a Whig, as such ...

... of the country? Are the dangers to social order or public tranquillity, which were so pathetically deplored as the result of Whig policy, now removed, or even mitigated ? Sir Robert l'eol and his friends took oflice to preserve the Church Establishwents ...

... fact that Mr. Steele was a member of the Birmingham Political Union when the present Secretary for the Home Department was a Whig. So decided is Mr. Steele’s purpose of compelling these four Ministers of the Crown to undergo his personal examination, defending ...

... state of health and vigour than he had ever before enjoyed. Somewhat like this is the described case of the country. By the Whig Ministry it was blown into a thousand pieces, but with the first dose of the Peel nostrum things were brought together again ...

... attention. We may notice that two of the Justices— Pesxyeraruer (Chief) and Burtox—are Tories, and two—Cramprron and Perriv—are Whigs. Their perfect agreement on all the questions of law raised in the trial, and their opinions heing given in every instance ...

... makinz to plunder the Protestant Church. The motion of the noble Lord, however, instead of strengthening, had weakened the Whigs ; he had smashed both himself and his party. Sir C. Navier asserted Mr. O'Connell’s disinterestedness. He thought the trials ...

... letting. The only measure proposed by Lord J. Raussel! on this head was an increased number of stipendiary magistrates. The late Whig Government maintained fifty-nine stipendiary magistrates in Ireland ; but in the last three months they added seven more, one ...

... Tar Irish quarrel has been fought in both Houses of Parliament for various nights, without effecting any useful object. The Whigs have not promised any really good measure, even in this the period of their decadence. Their leaders have failed in framing ...