... its anxiety to make the good faith of the Whigs perfectly clear, and persuasive in its arguments almost to the bringing back of those who have unceremoniously kicked the traces and refused to pull the old Whig coach of Reform. But we fear Mr Moncrieff ...

... Robert's fate is sealed. A few days back, and he was saved from defeat by a conclave of Whig Peers Lansdowne House ; now he is threatened with destruction by synod of Whig Members in Chesham Place. Within month the AVhigs will have preserved and annihdatod ...

... reasons for and against the advent of the Whig party to office. This third letter shall lav bare the facts connected with the grievous disappointment of tlie Reformers of the United Kingdom, on the refusal of their Whig aristocratic leaders to form a Liberal ...

... appointments of lieutenant and commander were made by mv father. * 0 that when tho Whigs were d morc Whigs than Tories; and T 6re ln office promoted more lories than Whigs ?-I certainly think so, and have not ?? WM y C ° , betwe the two in that respect ...

... experience, and activities. There was at one time the Markieth with its list of Whigs amines.. nixed dominance ; now-a.days there are no Whigs, and no Markinch clique. The Whigs of the country having gone wrong, as we told them at the time, in risking their ...

... Granville must of course be the chief;' end se yet at all events there has not been a syllable dissent. Old Whigs, young Whigs, and priggish Whigs, dwellers in the Cave and bitter Radicals, Aristocrats and Reds, High Churchmen, Broad Churchmen, and Non ...

... If it had been a purely Whig club, he would never have become a member ; but he began life, as he doubtless will end it, a sentimental Radical at heart. When Mr Disraeli was elected a member of the Westminster Club the Whigs were in office ; it was as ...

... THE AULD THORN TREE She’s seen a hunder simmers burn The grass upon the rig; She’s seen the Whig tae Tory turn, The Tory turn to Whig. She’s seen the young grow an’ auld, The auld folk pine an’ dee, An’ still she braves the blast fu’ bauld, The sturdy ...

... District ,of Burghs, who, since the death of Mr Edward Ellice, has tacitly been accepted the bead of the Whig Commoners, has given voice to species of Whig manifesto on the Reform question. Bouverie, it should be borne in mind (if the parliamentary small talk ...

... THE EARL'S QUEST. There -was an Earl of ancient blood, Of the antique temper too; Chief of the rare old Tories, He tried the Whigs to woo; And the name of that Earl was Stanley, With Smith prefixed thereto. He tried the gentle Granville, Whom all men think ...

... them well, and ponder well on them. The new Ministry of the Whigs will be equally squeezable to the one just expiring; not perhaps, from habit and inclination, but from necessity. The Whigs must recover the county representation ; and now, thank God! ...

... and what a capital opportunity of again dishing the Whigs! Let his Lordship, at the approaching Manchester banquet, unfurl the flag of direct taxation, commencing with the abolition of the Whig settlement of tbe land tax, and its assessment in harmony ...