... Liberal party generally ought to be preferred to the subsidiary posts, instead of the relations of the leading Whig statesmen. In the last Whig Ministry (Palmerston's), eight out of the fourteen Cabinet seats were usurped by three families, and in the ...

... although a brother-in-law of Bright, is a Whig of the old school, who eschews the more manly politics of his distinguished relative, is neither a Quaker nor a manufacturer, but a good steady-going Church of England Whig. We do not know whether Bright will consider ...

... and was reinstated on the refusal of | Sir Robert Peel to take office under certain circumstances. In the summer of 1844 the Whigs were defeated, and Sir j ' R. Peel formed that administration which carried the principles of free trade, and was eventually ...

... proposition on this point, made in the bill of 1854 brought in during the coalition between Whigs and Peelites, we have just as little to expect from the Whigs as from the Conservatives. So nearly do the interests of these two parties meet on this matter ...

... political opinions.— Dublin Post. Robbery and Suspected Murder. —A correspondent at Ballymena sends the following to the Northern Whig : A small farmer, named Henry Gourley, who resided the neighbourhood of Dunloy the county of Antrim, left his home on Wednesday ...

... should fate capricious Deny you bread, Your rich good friend, grown avaricious, Will cut you dead. Whene'er a statesman, Whig or Tory, Talks loud and long Of serving country for the glory, With yearning strong; Needing no Sovereign to regard him; Look ...

... danger of admitting the working classes to share the power which the middle classes had well exercised. The more prominent Whigs would not shut the door upon those presently unenfranchised, but they would only open it such a very small way as practically ...

... agreed to St 0 t0 twent y- five proposed public founr\ ...

... country now stands. Last summer we had Conservative Government in possession of the field. The session closed gloomily for the Whigs, who had not only lost office, but the confidence of the country, and indeed had been sent to Coventry their own natural ...

... Irish News. Memorial the Late Captain Crozier, R.N. —The Northern Whig says:— We observe with much satisfaction that the people of Banbridge are about to do themselves honour by the erection in that town of a monument in memory of one of the most di ...

... being Liberals, and the contest turning upon a desire to get quit of the domination of the old Whig clique of Leith, which so long saddled the burgh with Whig Lord-Advocates. Mr Moncreiff has moved up to Edinburgh, succeeding Mr Cowan, while with the exception ...

... know well what I shall encounter by saying this. know perfectly well there no party so admirable in the use of calumny as the Whig party, and everything that calumny can devise, or that lying can supply, will adopted by that party. (Cheers.) full well understand ...