... been accustomed to regard the chief of the old Whigs as under peculiar obligations to adopt their professional cry. Lord Russell is Premier, because he was born and has lived in the very heart of the Whig party, is of great experience, is believed to have ...

... Upper House Mr. Gladstone will have to imieet the difficulty, and the country will never know the cause. The discontented Whigs will not rise and say, The noble lord at the head of the Government did not speak to me, or treated me with /haot,11t or ...

... in the highest offices a few men who have attained to parlia- mentary influence by their authority in a narrow clique. The Whigs have always clung together, and kept out from high office all but their own stock, and thus the best of the young intellect ...

... Commerce, and that in a way which quite discredits his judgment. But it is useless to follow these speculations. Lord Russell is a Whig aristocrat of the hardest, coldest, most exclusive school ; and all that is said of him in to-day's Times is true. He will ...

... the State. He added that he thought that English politics were carried on upon most immoral principles, and that the Whigs and Radicals since BENTHAM had tried to throw away good principles which had been either neglected or perverted. Further ...

... of Commons, and the only commoner who has worn the Garter since Lord Castlereagh ; and all the recently named knights are Whigs with the notable exception of Lord Derby, who was appointed at the Queen's desire. May it not, then, be said that the order ...

... as a W hig Premier, has evidently not made up his mind from which quarter the wind blows. It is a toss-up whether the old Whigs or the Radical young men are to have their way. THE CHOLERA. The Times regards the problem which the Cholera Congress will ...

... not follow Lord RUSSELL.'S, whose leanings and sentiments are Conservative, though their antece- dents and connections are Whig, as well as by that section of Reformers who desire a philosophic as contrad istingu-ished from a democratic readjustment of ...

... career, it is due in grcat measure to this sectarian imagination for reforms, this preference of reforms that are generically Whig, to reforms that are purely administrative. So, again, if the free-trade party have lost ground in later years, and are now ...

... never thought to be so near? The proposer of Reform has a halter round his neck. Perhaps the last and best chance was when the Whigs might have accepted and amended the Tory bill; but they could not have done so without such alterations that its parents would ...

... orator, will, it is said, formally re-echo this complaint in the new Parliament. The Orangemen say again: Whether our rulers be Whig or Tory we care not. They vill uphold true Protestant government, utterly regardless of party names or' leaders. The paper ...

... was by blood a bold and somewhat capricious border chief, who for a time found it convenient to extend his claims from the Whig dominions into the Debateable land beyond, as his ancestors at Netherby had often set him the example of doing with regard ...