... into which the Whigs plunged themselves by the Anti-Papal Bill had the effect of wringing from Lord John Russeix the promise of a new Reform Bill. reckon this no small matter in the history of the past year. It was an indication that the Whigs had at length ...

... necessary to state. THE RUSSELL MINISTRY. (From the Morning Herald.) long as the family cabal that have usurped the name of the Whig party are permitted to nominate the Ministers of Queen Victoria, the choice of the Sovereign in her advisers is virtually limited ...

... in vain. Lord George, therefore, wee an original and hearty supporter of the Reform Rill, and lie continued to uphold the Whigs in all their poliey until the secession of Lord Stanley, between whom and himself there subslefed warm persimnel, an well es ...

... Cittenside.) It may be a strong observation to biased—but the solitary, if compelled, secession of Lord Palmerston from the Whig Cabinet, in the present eurieesty-eomplicated condion of our affairs, foreign and domestic, will bo viewed by many as a national ...

... has suffered from the apprehensions perpetually kept alive by the divided and subdivided state of the political world. The Whigs know what it is to have lived by sufferance, and they know that to do so is to survive both power and reputation. They would ...

... circumstances which, though separately small, accumulate into an awkward position. The great difficulty of all is, that the Whig prestige is not, like that of Toryism or Conservatism, passive. requires to be kept up, and can only be kept up tolerably rapid ...

... trouble in the northern counties. The following extract from a private letter from gentleman in Dundalk appears in the Northern Whig Thomas Fortescue has been ojjicialhj informed, that a sum of fifty pounds has been raised to remunerate the man who will a ...

... Granville,’ just as actively as when ‘instructed by Lord Palmerston,’ and perhaps will continue to so until the end of the Whig chapter. His son, the Hon. Henry E. J. Stanley, a young gentleman, aged twenty-four, who had beeb Preces Writer in the Foreign ...

... free constitution the privilege of serving the Sovereign is not confined to any class or order of men. a • • The principle of Whig liberality is to monopolise the offices of state to two or three family connections, and convert the Cabinet of the Sovereign ...

... improve it, and elevate the condition of the tenantry. He is said to be greatly respected by • men of all classes.—. Northern Whig. ...

... to look for the new life, and strength, and vigour to that certainly not most invigorating of all influences, an infusion of Whig lordlings, Treasury hangers-on, and Government placehunters ! It must be remembered that all the life, and strength, and vigour ...

... We must wait, then, for the meeting of Parliament before we are in possession of the Whig Minister's explanation of this singular passage in the history of the Whig Cabinet. Be it so; but there is yet another question, Why, in these times of pressing ...