... were he to spring tip amongst us,- would be respected, honoured, and soon gather a fol- lowing around him-whether he were Whig or Tory, aristocrat or plebeian. But our own misfortune is, that we have no master-mind to take the lead, and guide us through ...

... appointments under Whig and o Liberal Governments. He was first appointed to office under Earl Grey's administration, in 1832, p when he became a Lord of the Admiralty. On the v death of Earl Spencer, and the retirement of the Whigs on the King's determination ...

... detailed in the Sebastopol report : and, qu1 Col. Adair resorts to evasion to save the ministry, he or because they are Whigs, rather than meet the ques- we d tion with the straightforward boldness of a soldier. so ,l Before last Friday night, the general ...

... because that aristocracy is deprived of its power, and of its freedom of action, by the union of the Whig oligarchy with the demo- cracy of the towns. The Whig principle is com- pletely oligarchical; it recognises the right of the few great families, whose ...

... three comhinations were open to the Queen. 1. Lord Derby and his friends. 2. Lord Lansdowne and Lord John Russell, and the Whigs. 3. Lord Palmerston, with some of the ablest mem- bers of the present administration, and the addition of Earl Grey, as Foreign ...

... those elements which dif. than o fered in seone degree from thle pare traditions and the per- will bE sonal connexions of the Whig families, but we aye not so- THE tisfied that the country and the House of Commons will be disposed to regard in so favourable ...

... nal party is rendered powerless; and the moderate men of that party are, in consequence, found giving their support to the Whig oligarchy-offensive as is the principle in a free country,-rather than afford the chance of a triumph to the extreme Liberal ...

... anarchy. They are breaking up into cliques and coteries. wi Between the commercial classes of the North of England of and the Whigs, the gulf is widening every day, and a re- til constitution of the Liberal party will be necessary. But, in ct at present, ...

... instructions. What is in P t the wind now P Lord John is one of the most ho- t: nourable and constitutional membnrs of the old u Whig party, and we therefore think it can be no t light Matter that has induced him, at such a moment c to abdicate his high and ...

... Under-secre- taries of State to sit in the Lower House becomes law. We are told that there is a general feeling of dis- like of Whigs and Radicals amongst the commer- cial and trading classes; and we believe it: and, in the manufacturing districts, a spirit ...

... his friends. THE GREAT WHIG FAMMIiES. The Press, in reviewing the results of the Vienna Con- ferences, observes:- Twenty years of official power during the last quarter of a century were not enough for Lord John and his great Whig families. The most enlightened ...

... Marquis of [Lansdowne. The new appointments confer an additional strength upon the ministry ; but they give it a more decidedly Whig character ; and that of Mr. Baines may be looked upon as a cancession to the demand of the administrative reformers,-so noisy ...