... into power, or endeavoured to retain power, perpetual reductions of the army and navy. That had not been matter of party. Whigs, Tories, and Radicals had bad the same end in view, and among them they had done their best to render this great nation utterly ...

... her Majesty Windsor. The Tunes repeats tlwit the chance of Derby Administration may be at present summarily dismissed. pure Whig Cabinet is impossible; and the Times reverts with increased confidence to Lord Palmerston. fears that Sir James Graham's illness ...

... Aberdeen would have stood before the country having preferred the services the Duke of Newcastle to those of the head of the Whig party. In any view of the case, it must be admitted, that there air of hasty pettisliness about the conduct of Lord John Russell ...

... instrumental in cairying the bill for the reform of the representative system. the resignation Earl Grey, in August, 1834, the Whig Ministry was modified, and Viscount Melbourne was raised to the office of First Lord of the Treasury. This Ministry was dissolved ...

... do not speak with entire certainty the fact tbst Lord Clarendon, Lord Granville, Lord Cranwoith, and Sir George Grey, four Whig members of the late Administration, whose character is entitled to the ntmost respect for their high sense of political duty ...

... little chance of the Peelites coalescing with the Tories; and the meantime there seems no probability an early union with the Whigs. In the present position of parties the House, thi3 is far from being a pleasant state of matters, to those who look for the ...

... curious coincidence it so happened that, at the very time when Gladstone and his friends were severing their connexion with thHr Whig colleagues, a remarkable scene was actually taking place the Tory camp having direct and significant reference them. Great ...

... the Times.) The Times says, Lord Palmerston has endeavoured 'to extract the materials of Government from the remains of tlie Whig party, with some addition men new the ranks of official life. The first and most difficult office to fill of those now vacant ...

... tact as Premier, which in former days signalised his doings in the foreign office—will he succeed ? The split between the Whigs and Peelites appears to be complete, so far as it goes;—that is, as to holding office together. Will the latter carry their ...

... for years the throne at the Old Crown and Anchor Tavern, in Palace Yard, and in Covent Garden meetings. Hume worked not for Whigs or Tories. He laboured for his country —for the world large. He never put his faith in Sovereigns or in Governments. he ever ...

... House of Commons to pass a resolution which first drove Lord Aberdeen from office, and then split up the coalition between the Whigs and Peelites, but he has failed to 6ecure its consent to a secret committee. On Friday last he appeared in his seat in Parliament ...

... which he was well paid, and the Sheriffs, who had year or two ago got large additions to their salaries. It was just a gigantic Whig job. He would move that they petition against the bill. Sir W. Johnston suggested that the Annual Committee be empowered to ...