... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...