... readers for the familiar phrase, but really there is none other which so well describes his act. Lord John lies low, shot by a Whig bolt discharged from a Chesham bow—nay, he is almost slain by an intimate partisan of his own. With Waller he may say— That ...

... fragility. However, a leader is always somewhat a mirror of his party. I am told expediency is a leading principle with the Whigs ; and their renowned leader is gone, because he worshipped expediency as a principle. Does England want more yet of calamitous ...

... such rehearsal will further the ends and aims of Government, by Whigs. Unless rumour be a lying jade, Dr Taylor has not been unmindful of his supposed position. Yet if he does represent the Whig Government in the United Presbyterian Synod, he ought to have ...

... Drouyn De Lhuys resigned or was cashiered, it is not known which; but Lord John kept his seat to rave the country, as he and his Whig colleagues had often done before. The perfidy of Austria became the theme of British declamation. Lord Lyndhurst thundered ...

... reputation—besides being the daughter of Prince Czartoryski, who heads the monarchical Polish party, and is the friend of all our Whig nobles—a great crush is expected, and all the snobs are offering ten and twenty guineas a ticket. Does this indicate that ...

... opposed to the bill in Scotland are, besides those expecting berths, the Free Church, the Romanist party, and a few pragmatical Whig Dissenters. The opponents differ in the grounds of opposition, but the grand point of attack against this bill is that which ...

... means of dealing with the evil will probably meet from Government a welcome response. Governments, especially when made up of Whigs, never tire of creating power, patronage, and taxes; but whatever may be the ultimate necessity for such officials, mazy other ...

... they could not vote against Sir Bulwer Lytton's motion; the other by means of a round-robin, to which the signatures of dozen Whig members of the House of Commons obtained, urging Lord Palmenton to accept Lord John's resignation. The rather equivocal credit ...