... His remarkable talents made him justly the chief of the British Museum. He is extremely intimate with all the aristocratic Whigs, and a constant companion of Lord Palmerston. I saw him, some years ago, come to one of Gavazzi's, the Italian Protestant preacher ...

... attained than at present, has for five-and- twenty years been one of the most hardworking, respectable, and commonplace of the whig servants-of-all-work. He has been successively a Lord of the Admiralty, Vice-President of the Board of Trade, Under-Secretary ...

... dgment has yet overtaken them for such a daring act of impietv. MR. MINNOCH AND MISS SMITH.—A correspondent of the Northern Whig writes to that journal as follows An article appeared in your columns of the 11th inst., censuring, in very strong terms, the ...

... Parliament, is a sign of how the wind blows with that party which calls itself conservative, because it is opposed to the whigs. Everybody seems delighted with the success of the Earl of Talbot—best known years ago as Lord Ing :stre, and a captain in ...

... ANECDOTE OF GENERAL LORD GOUGH. THE following is from the Northern Whig. As the gallant hero of the Punjaub is clearly daguerrotyped, we take the liberty of giving his full name above We have received from an esteemed correspondent the following account ...

... been posted up in the Marylebone politics he would not have been there as the supporter of the representative of the effete whig party, and one who was a true son neither of the Protestant nor the Roman catholic church. Mr. Peter Graham proposed Lord Fermoy ...

... that in the event of a liberal government being formed it was essential that the three great sections of that party-the old.whigs, the Peelites, and the advanced liberals—should each be represented in it. Mr. Bright, who followed Lord John, spoke of the ...

... feuds and public inquiries in parliament connected with Mr. Coppock's personal services to past administrations and former whig and radical candidates for seats in our legislature, ^ucii ovgone transactions are rather matters for future history than for ...

... announcement that all personal feuds and sectional jealousies were at an end, and that the policy of future cabinets formed under whig leadership would be both anti- exclusive as to men, and promptly progressive as to measures. Both Lord John Russell and Lord ...

... month's warning (laughter). Of course, Lord Palmerston is not going to put himself into that mess again. Then you say to the Whigs, Why don't you support Lord John? They say, We like Lord John very well, but he always upsets our coach (laughter). Well, ...

... as a reformer, and the latter was fettered by party ties, and had long been accustomed to look upon power as an appanage of whig states- men. On the whole he preferred the present govern- ment, and would vote for the second reading if they undertook not ...

... believe that the statement which appeared in one of our contemporaries -to the effect that a meeting of the heads of the old whig party was held on Saturday in reference to the course to be taken with regard to the Reform Bill—is without any foundation ...