... toleration of the country, unless he mends old manners and displays new powers. Neither is Sir Charles Wood, who wrecked the last Whig Cabinet and became the laughing-stock of the country by his thrice amended and four times blundered budget, likely to succeed ...

... bad now to try to that representation to one oily, now that Mr Hume had mimed to exist. He (Mr B) was more a Radical than • Whig, but he was no leveller. Ha maxim was to be moderate in all thing.; and, although a Diaeeater, he would not wish to iaterfere ...

... expense, to some other department. But it is not so. This pretence of doing the colonial work is a mere sham to preserve the Whig personLel of the Cabinet, and the work is no doubt neglected—because all have enough to do without it—in order that honour ...

... rather than violate the convictions of his own conscience, is surely entitled to public respect even though be be a lord, and a Whig of the true Bedford stamp. The other new appointments are much criticised, and though the public have got new men in one or ...

... of the great Powers as severelz e 2 his logic and his facts as he used to scald the points of the Whigs by his sarcasm in those annuml reviews of Whig deficiencies which for some sessions made his name terrible in the camp of hispolitieal foes. The speech ...

... God has intrusted them—the instruction and upbringing of their own offspring. The bill of last year was a notable specimen of Whig centralisation, combined with a scheme to help the Free Church out of certain pecuniary di ffi culties, by throwing the burden ...

... ies, and upon the power of public opinion over Government officials. When such thing s are attempted, it is always by the Whigs. Sir G eorge Grey, however, could not prevail on the Commons to exempt him and his colleagues from undergoing the public ordeal ...

... Queen, when, after the usual absurdities of kissing hands and other barb.trous formalities, the Pee!keit delivered up and the Whigs were intrusted with their respective of office. Lord Carlisle was also declared Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. There is something ...