... present. We will venture very confidently to assure our readers that there is as much chance of Sir Robert Peel displacing the Whig Cabinet just now as of his becoming Emperor of Hayti, or Great Llama of Thibet. — Times. Eliza Chestney — This intrepid young ...

... away. It is obvious that a man without a party cannot become the minister. His only chance would be, for a portion of the Whigs and Radicals to adopt him. In that case, the hints that he is the man tc deal boldly with our financial and social quesiions ...

... believe that Mr. Bell's resolutions on the territorial question would have been referred to a committee of thir- teen, half Whigs and half Democrats, with Mr. Clay as chairman. When that affair occurred, an important amend- ment, moved by Mr. Clay, had ...

... inaugurated a fierce struggle, i terminated in the defeat of the Protectionists ; and it reappeared under the auspices of an old Whig and rude Member, as a warning to them that they must se their policy. A duty upon imported corn, or an isation of the taxes ...

... descended to tap tomb amid deeper regret by all classes of society, than Mr. Bentley. Notwithstand- ing that he was a decided Whig in politics, he numbered among those who differed in opinion, some of his warmest friends. To do so was no easy matter, when ...

... Ixglis indulged a few years ago, in the idea that this might he managed by par- liamentary grants. In the dying days of the Whig go- vemment in 18-41, Sir Robert relinquished a motion asking for a large addition out of the public purse to the means of ...

... tendencies of the Elysee. It is, or, at least, it fain would be, with M. de Nes- selrode and M. de Schwartzenberg against the Whig Cabinet, and with Lord Aberdeen, so dear to Louis Philippe. It hoped, by aiding Lord Stanley, to eject Palmerston from the ...

... 60 many of their acts of interference with the affairs of other countries, done ia direct coutrovention of the exposition of Whig prin- i ciples promulgated by Lord Urey. Mr. C >bden explained his \iews on the subject of intervention, and he charged Mr ...

... the advocate of agriculture as the antagonist of trade, thus going beyond the Whigs in the direction of free trade. Mr. Disraeli not inaptly told him, that he had found the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. It was a surprising proof of the ...

... Robert for not forming a ministry, on the score that a few Whig ladies at court would have been more than a match for the Cabinet at Whitehall. It was thus that, after a brief succession, the Whigs once more resumed their places on the treasury bench, which ...

... which question he was placed in contact with the perhaps superior, and, certainly more leisure-fed minds of eminent men of the Whig party. The subsequent history of Sir Robert Peel's life is indeed but that of the gradual conver- sion of the Tory administrator ...

... Herbert, Mr. Cardwell, Sec. ; and that there has been no very distinguished addition made of late years to the ranks of the Whig party. But a new party has appeared upon the stage. The disappearance from the Liberal side of the House of Mr. O'Connell, ...