... private assurances, which were sincere, that the penal clauses bf the Emancipation Act would never be put in fovea. In 1831 the Whig Government gives notice, through Sir G. Grey, that the Government had determined to legislate on the Papal question, as the ...

... LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S AMENDMENT ON THE REFORM BILL. The Times says :—Wre are informed that at a meeting of the heads of the old Whig party on Satu:day, it was determined that Lord John Rumell should move • resolution as an amendment upon the inolion for the ...

... Withdrawn .3 Rejected - 4 7 -29 -71 County of Elgin.—Claims supported by Conservative agent and sustained, 16; do. by Whig agent, do. by parties themselves, 3; rejected and withdrawn, 3. Total 24. ...

... own particular principles. Essentially—however unpopular the expression may be—essentially, say, they are those of a Whig. The old Whig principles I understood from the life, conversation, speeches, and character of the man whose name I bear—Charles James ...

... and it has added much to the cordiality that characterizes all the proceedings, that the sentiments of some of the principal Whig proprietors, who are mi.ch respected by their tenantry, ha%e been ascertained to be entirely in favour of a free, trii, and ...

... OF THE JOURNALS. LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND THE REFORM BILL. ( Frost the Press.) Lord John Russell has staked the fortunes of the Whig party, and his own fame, one remodelling of the llouse of Commons. He has done this after deep thought and long calcu:ation ...

... scholar. His election addresses and speeches were models of clear argument, and have rarely been surpassed as expositions of Whig principles. Though for some years withdrawn from public view, Mr Macleod's death will awaken many interesting associations ...

... the humorous, his conversation was at once instruc! tive and pleasing. Indeed, he was the life of every company. An ardent Whig, he was stedfast to his creed, never, as he used to say, changing his coat or bis principles; the blue coat and yellow waistcoat ...

... receiving double the number of votes that any Whig candidate ever In-fore received in the county. Similar results have been attained elsewhere. In Norfolk three seats were handed over from Tory to Whig without a contest; and indeed so ea-y and complete ...

... their support. This gathering is certainly larger than could have been obtained by any other statesman, or probably by the two Whig leaders combined; and it gives reason to suppose that the measure of the Cabinet will at least read a second time. Mr Walpole ...

... champions of Conservatism and Free-trade banding with the most liberal of Whigs and the leader of the Radicals against the Conservatives ! High Church, Low-Church, Puseyite Presbyterian, Whig, Peelite, Radical— all brayed together in the same mortar; the oily ...

... Irish members—to Free Trade—to anything, and everything a means of again throwing the country into confusion and expelling the Whig Cabinet. Cardinal Wiseman and his advisers, who had lately regained the position they had lest on the majority in favour of ...