... after year, and tell as many tales as you please of manner in which Whig Ministers and Whig landlords abuse their power yet we will not take any of your nostrums will not, even to purify Whig oorruption, “divest a man of his responsibility to his fellow countrymen ...

... Spectator—the representative of philosophical Liberalism—takes a gloomy view the prospects of its own political party. The old Whigs are described to be “all in a twitter,” and as rushing to the ...

... by the Whigs, foremost amongst whom was Lord John Russell. But Radicals are always found taking credit for themselves and their party for measures to which they have claim, or least, no exclusive right. As ** getting or keeping office,” the Whigs and Radicals ...

... and on account of his enlarged views and acknowledged abilities, and the support he had long and consistently given to the Whigs, he was invited by Earl Grey in 1830, when he received the royal commands to form an adminis- tration, to become a member of ...

... counselled amendments to the bill in committee. The John Bull adds—“ Of course Lord Derby finds the bill defeated the action of a Whig peer, he will interpose obstacle, but he will not allow the bill be read a second time. Largo meetings are to be held throughout ...

... SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. LORD JOHN RITHHELLS ELEVATION. Stawciard. ) If Lord John Russell began his career at a Whig he certainly ende it as • Conservative. The day of gnat abuses, he tells US, is past. The day of rapid change also. In pronouncing his own ...

... Gladstone is not supposed to be the colleague, whom, if the noble lord were Abraham, he would place in his bosom. None of the old Whigs, or the old officials, like Gladstone, and it is not thought that their warmth of affection is much exceeded toy that of the ...

... same excuse for the care- less expenditure as in the case of a rate-in-aid. Bnt the most striking point of convergence between Whig and Conservative is that which relates to America. Lord Hartington has just made a tour of the United States, South as well ...

... Lord Stanley (the late Earl of Derby), and Sir E. P. Hoghton, Bart., were the members for Preston. They both represented the Whig or Stanley interest in the borough, and had been returned in 1796, after a keen con- test with Mr. John Horrocks, manufacturer ...

... es, and because the Irish Nationalists, who have sulked for six or seven years, have made another unholy compact with the Whigs. (By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.) SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION. The High Sheriff will declare the final state of the ...

... when there must be an extensive, if not fundamental, reconstitution of the govern- ment. The elimination of two such pure Whigs would dissolve the allegiance of the cabinet. The probability is that a succession of weak governments would ensue. The Pall ...

... it is hoped, of re-uniting the disjointed sections of the party. The Whigs proper are ready to go in for a Re- distribution of Seats Bill; the Radicals press for the ballot. The Whigs are chagrined at the rejection of their re-endowment policy in Ireland ...