... al in carrying the bill for the reform of the representative system. On the resignation of Earl Grey, in August, 1834, the Whig ministry was modified, and Viscount Melbourne was raised to the office of First Lord of the Treasury. This ministry was dissolved ...

... centuries is scen to be, at present, a most anomalous one. This is generally admitted, and is the subject of comment on all sides. Whig and Tory alike con- fess that their case is without parallel in the history of the past, and that the future offers nothing ...

... ago there was a great whig outcry against the close boroughs, and the people agreed with the whigs, and said it was an infamous system. So they put an end to the close boroughs of the tories, but not to the close boroughs of the whigs.-(Laughter.) And, ever ...

... than at any election for many years past. The election of Gen. Pierce as president has been effected against Gen. Scott, the whig candidate, and the other officers who had to be elected by the same vote are also Democrats. We can scarcely expect that the ...

... cried Bravo I but when a Whig minister tells us that ha did not appoint a most in. capable man to a certain office, simply because that incapable man happened to be his relation, we must say, knowing what we do of Whig ministers, that it astounds us ...

... original radical opinions : were adopted, as he himself has explained, by accident; Q they were abandoned by accident-when the whig go K vernment refused to enlist his services by the offer of a place. He afterwards clunig to the skirts of Sir Robert Peel ...

... delinquent minister. It tends to make all ministers ac- countable; and though the Derby - Disraelites would gladly eject the whigs, they shrink from doing it by a vote which would make office for ever a terror to their incapacity. Hence General Peel, who ...

... between the Orange and Roman Catholic mobs. Government has appointed two commissioners, Mr. David Lynch, Q.C. (Roman Catholic and Whig,) and Mr. Hamilton Smythe, Q.C. (Protestant and Conservative,) to inquire into the recent disgraceful outrages in Belfast, ...

... and, finding that his former chief has abandoned the struggle for domination, and being reluctant to join the mere debating whigs, he has taken his post for the nonce as a volunteer among those who, whatever may be their failings, seem indisposed to rust ...

... same hereditary notions, the same irrevocable family principles have from time to time been predominant. From whig to tory, and from tory to whig, has been the extent of all transfers of power and responsibility; the migrations of government thus being limited ...

... the late government left in the larder; or, to borrow the figure of Mr. D'Israeli applied to Sir Robert Peel, you caught the Whigs bathing, and have run away with their clothes. You are swaggering about in their estimates, their chancery suits, their measures ...

... Scot- land the suffrage has gradually, though insufficiently, enlarged, in a' natural way; and, to speak nothing more of the Whigs than the simple truth-it must be avowed that -they have not wasted any large amount of sympathy in furthering the desires of ...