... confidential adviser extraordinary to the Throne in case of the exhaustion and failure of the regular partisan statesmcni, Whig and Tory, and the consequent need of new ?? free from the taint of party feeling. Wlhat the late Duke of WEiLI'NGTUN was to ...

... measures is gone. He talks of a coalition, but what can be such a coalition as an union between himself and those whom he calls Whigs, whom he has been for years systematically abusing ? He does this because he fears that moderate men will forget party ties ...

... parties have successively promised to take the matter in hand. A needless prolongation of the controversy must be deprecated by Whigs and Tories alike. The demands of the unenfranchised are never likely to be more moderate than they are at present, or more ...

... imperial behests of the Whigs. Fornearly foirtP>i1 years Sir Francis Baring has remained in obscurity; at length he has fallai upon better times. The Post recognizes in liorcd Northbrook one w-ilosc belief in, and fidelity to, the Whig party, even in spite ...

... instinctively attribute the same genial attributes. Except the late Lord NIL.LBOUTRINE, and probably the great Whig leader, Mr. Fox, the leadin c Whigs have never been personally genial men and even Lord MELrrOTURNL-'; lighllt and witty sayings, though they ...

... Wood: as a debater he is nothing. It can be attributed only to the narrowness of vision whiclh distinguishes the good old Whigs, that, when so acute and eloquent a man as the Chief Justice remains a commoner, so ordinary a judge as the Master of the Rolls ...

... that if this Government fall, presided over by the most eminent statesman now living of the Whig party, we are likely to see the entire extinction of the Whigs as a governing party in the affairs of this country; but whether the Government are equal to ...

... because a free press and parliamentary government provide the means for incessantly exposing the family jobbery, not only of Whigs, but of office-holders in general, that the abuses of to-day are. so much less glaring than those of the past. Every man who ...

... he was described as a Conservative, and now he is the prop and the staff of a Whig Administration. He came out of the Conservative camp, as Lord Derby came out of the Whig camp, to maintain certain principles, and may still think that those principles ...

... his Cabinet would be his cold refusal to recognize the possibility of finding administrative talent outside the beaten way of Whig family friendship. The country will undoubtedly regard the promotion of this young politician as satisfac- tory in itself, ...

... palatable by a man who declared that the oniusprobaendi lay solely with the advocates of exclusion, and by a grotip of old Whigs who, if exclusion be not their principle, have no raison d gtre .1 t i the Paaca question, to be argued by a Minister who, ...

... Premier, asked Lord Russell, as a private member of the House of Commons, to introduce a Reform Bill; but he was coy, or the Whig party dissuaded him and the Conservative bill of 1859 took the place of these alternative proposals. This bill was thrown out ...