... them, and as I am a fossil Tory I do not pretend to understand that peculiar variety of human nature found in those hapless Whigs who think Mr. Gladstone generally wrong but always vote that he is absolutely right, .till it seems to me that even if I were ...

... retired list, with the rank of general, in 18S1. He represented Lichfield in the House of Commons from 1837 to July, 1805, in the Whig interest. He was Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal to the Queen from July, 1840, to March, 1852, from December, 1852, to March ...

... er of Greenwich Hospital, and was appointed a Lord of the Treasury in 1841, which ha only held for a short time. When the Whigs regained office in 1846 he was appointed a Junior Lord of the Admiralty, which he held till 1852, and was again appointed in ...

... Turks. The case is different here. India is their own soil. They will enlist thousands to defend it. — Richmond Whig. We copy from the Richmond Whig an article on the Mahomedan revolt in India, which speaks encouragingly of the chances of its suppression. ...

... of the tale may have been current at the time, since we read, on the authority of Moore himself, that he rebuked an eminent Whig patriot, now ennobled and living in dignified retirement, for asserting that Scott had never been heard to utter one generous ...

... expressed, some sneers I ?? have been vented, at the charge that Mr. Labou- -5 chere is a Whig, and that Lord Palmerston has - been forced to fall back on the Whig party to form bis Ministry. For our own parts, we thought that the last of that once famous ...

... journalists are lo3t in sur- prise (and well they may be) at this inexplicable coup d'etat of Lord John Russell's, whereby the whig Sir Forcible Feeble, has driven from the royal councils the only member of the Cabinet who possessed the double advantages ...

... to his views on the Irish Question, which was then, as now, a burning one ; and I venture to say that the vast majority of Whigs and Tories in the country will all agree with the sentiments of the Mr. W. Ewart Gladstone of 1837, which are as follows : ...

... Government, and vote through thick and thin with the Whig Ministry. He called upon the agri- cultural body to beware of the false pretensions of Whig Protectionists, tor whenever the interests of the Whig Go- vernment clashed with those of agriculture, the ...

... Conservatives separately, and it would scarcely be consistent with the self - respect of the Opposition to efface themselves for a Whig party which they outnumbered both in votes and in general standing. For this reason then we cannot believe in a reconstruction ...

... without meaning when I say we want a little Whig reatment of the Irish question. But for me there is another spectof your argument in which it is not less unacceptable nd important. As the chief part of the Whig peers and ristocracy have severed themselves ...

... What, then, will be the condition of parties ? The* Radicals wtil number 250, the Conservatives ->50 the Whigs 80, and the Parnellites 80. If the Whigs and the Parnellites vote with the Radicals, they will have a majority of 160 over the Conserva- tives ...