... WHIG PHILO-RUSSIANISM. Earl Grey has always been a crotchety politic 13,0 ' say the London papers, and therefore it would have unreasonable to look for anything else from such a than the speech he made in the House of Lords last week, in favour of Prince ...

... Seemed t0 these worthi ...

... document to which we refer. It is an invitation from a party Whip addressed to a distinguished Whig just before Brougham's famous reform motion. Whip informs his Whig friend that there would be a meeting that day at the residence of a gentleman of the name ...

... last, with the avowed intention, and in the confident hope of bemg able to assume the leadership of a Whig-Peelite coalition. To secure the Whigs he agreed to guarantee them ten seats in the Cabinet, with a due proportion of subordinate posts of importance ...

... instrument to conceal their thoughts, and with words as winning as lips can utter to lie like truth ? You would turn out the Whigs because they have deceived and betrayed you, and you would call in the Tories who have done the same thing a hundred times ...

... have been opened between the leader of the Whig section of the Cabinet and certain of those whom he consented to leave out when called on by Lord Aberdeen to unite with him in December, 1852, to form a Whig- Peelite Administration. To those who have observed ...

... the absence of important war news matters at home are sufficiently momentous to excite the interest of the country. The great Whig chief has fallen—the man of historical reputation and old political fame, has, with that acquiescent optimism which has ch ...

... ord Melbourne once more resumed the reins of Government. This Ministry endured from April, 1835 to August 1841. In 1841 the Whigs were defeated in two Parlia- elected under their own auspices, and Sir R. Peel formed that Administration which carried the ...

... The selection—if selection be the right term for an appointment refused by leading statesmen of three parties—of an old Whig who sat on the fourth bench in the Commons amongst the shelved hacks of party—of a man whose administrative power and skill ...

... stipulations secretly agreed to between the parties. We have noticed elsewhere the ostensible conditions on which the residuary Whig and Peelite members of the Coalition have agreed to act together under Lord Palmerston. But the secret articles of their renewed ...

... some remedy, some check. Hut whentcthis is added the systematic nepotism which is exercised without control by those in power (Whig and Tory being perfectly alike in this res P ect)-the magnitude of the evil becomes truly appalling. Everybody who has read ...

... world the leading feature, and expound the lesson it conveys ? What is the leading feature ? Last week it was a medley band of Whigs, Tories, Radicals, and Irishmen fused into an unnatural combination, and devoting all their energies to the pickling of a pair ...