... a new Tory reign was an ordeal which Whig supineness made it inevitable that the country should pass through; and, if necessary, then the sooner the better. There are, it would appear, a few individuals of the Whig party, who, like drowning men catching ...

... THE WHIGS AND WAR. TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZlNE.—Wonderfully has the ministry kept its bargain with the public. It proclaimed three great principles of action— Reform Economy Peace. It has cheated Reformers ; it has laughed at Economists ; it has invited ...

... THE WHIG OPPOSITION, TIMES.—The language of Liberal candidates on the hustings, and of the Liberal organs of the press, which are so overloaded with explosive matter that they miss their aim and recoil on the desperadoes who discharge them, amounts in ...

... JUSTICE TO THE WHIGS. WE have long maintained that the present Ministers have, upon the whole, faithfully and ably discharged the trust reposed in them; and it seems that the city of London is of the same opinion. The grand banquet given by the Lord Mayor ...

... THE WHIGS IN POWER . MORNING POST.—The ministerialists are again crowing over the fact that their patrons are still in office. The fact, say they, that the opposition has been baffled and defeated requires no other proof than this—that, notwithstanding ...

... THE WHIGS AND THE PRESS. MONTHLY C 'IRON IC LE.—With all the faults of omission that may be charged upon the government, it cannot be denied that Lord Melbourne has ably directed the counsels of his country, that he has greatly increased the influence ...

... THE WHIGS AND O'CONNELL. FRASER'S MAGAZINE.—To both parties we put the /Me question :—Supposing the Whigs to give up O'Connell, and to cease their warfare against the church; what substantial grounds of difference would remain to keep asunder Sir Robert ...

... reform of the House of Commons is opposed by the Whigs as well as the Tories ; it is advocated only by the Radicals. Corporation reform originated with the Radicals; the Tories consented to it; and the Whigs did little more in its favour. In speaking of ...

... WHIG POLICY IN IRELAND, BRITISH AND FOREIGN REVIEW.-OR the Ist of March, last session, a resolution proposed by Lord Blorpeth was agreed to by the House of Commons, that Exchequer Bills ,to an amount not exceeding 2,500,0001. should be made out by direction ...

... THE WHIGS, THE TORIES, AND THE CHURCH. MORNING Posy—The friends of ministers complain that we Tories accuse their official patrons of being foes of the church. They say that we are perpetually dealing in misrepresentation, and attributing to ministers ...

... THE WHIGS CONSIDERED AS MINISTERS. MORNING Post —There are some of the ministerial people who very heartily chuckle over what honourable statesmen would consider a very humiliating position.' They say that, upon Sir Robert Peel's own showing, the incapable ...

... FREE-TRADE AND THE WHIGS. IF we are to believe the rumours current in the political world, the leading Whigs, and more especially Lord JOHN RUSSELL, have as yet shown no symptoms of yielding to the exigencies of the time and the importunities of their ...