... at least three- fourths of the landed proprietors are Whigs, but sisce 1841 they have not as a body interfered with the votes of their tenantry. Consequently the great bulk of the tenantry on the Whig estates have gradually become Con- servative. This ...

... a hard fight with the Whigs, in the great lteform war; but, beaten in that contest, and beaten down, they rose again, reorganised, anil assumed the name of t'onservatives, though what there was be conserved, beyond what tlie Whigs have done—au ...

... twice. During the last Parliamentary tern the Whigs were written into ollee b the lress the Press having previously - ritten the country into a fervour of desire f6 evlmt is called Reform, which the Whigs pmised to give. But, as the days went on, the ...

... CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATIONS. The Whigs, who fancy that they almost annihilated the Conservative party by their profuse expenditure of money and their unscrupulous coercion at the late elections, are beginning to awake up to the conviction that their prospects ...

... exceptions being on the Whig side, as was natural they should be. In East Norfolk that great Whig landlord, the Earl of Leicester, issued a circular to his tenantry directing them, in very dictatorial terms, to vote for the Whig candi- dates, of whom his ...

... everything to lose by sinking into the positions of a timid safe Whig. Nor can a man f forsake his own nature, even if he would. Mr. GLADSTONE has none of the qualities which make a man a good sound Whig, nor has he the social position. A statesman ought to be ...

... calamity, imperilling the whole cattle-life of the United Kingdom, we find the Government literally deserted by the miserable Whigs who pretend to conduct it. Everywhere around us we hear the footfalls of the coinin great rinderpest. A cattle famine is at ...

... going to the poll as iberal Conservatives, and protesting that their princi- ples are almost identical with those of the old Whigs. Say they, There really is no difference between us and the Liberals. We are quite as eager as they are for reform, and we ...

... classed as Minis_ re to terialists; while the directors of public opinion, who. nonth chuckle over the great triumph of the Whigs, lose to me same sight not only of the fact, that the semblance of vic- s fur- tory has been obtained by the grossest bribery ...

... Duke this amount of glory. The M Cavendishes, though not a great race, are a very useful n one, according to the measure of Whig usefulness; v they work hard, and offend as few people as possible. al It is a pleasure to the British mind to add up the seats ...

... the Kirkcaldy boroughs. His father, Mr. Roger Aytoun, writer to the Signet, was agent to the Duke of Hamilton, and a stanch Whig ; and provincial gossips, tenacious of such memories, still delight to tell the tourist how young Aytoun clamoured at nineteen ...

... ages of eighteen and forty-five should have been forced into the army. The death of LinconI was no loss to the South. He was a Whig and non- slaveholder, while Johnson was a democrat and formerly owned slaves, therefore the South could have confidence in ...