... expiating their blunders ?? and they cannot 'hope for such an opportunity for perfecting their skill as that of the Whigs thirty years since. The Whigs were followed by an overwhdlming majority in the country and in par- liament, but Lord Derby would think it ...

... it has been accepted by him. The country has reason to rejoice that the Premier has evidenced a determination to go beyond Whig circles for gentlemen whose co-opera- tion and support he deems desirable to secure for his ministry. It is also a matter of ...

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

... work to the Whigs, and of resigning his Premiership, but that the Whigs were unable to form a Government, through the refusal of Lord Grey to sit in the same Cabinet with Lord Palmerston. The first Earl Grey was the only one of the Whigs who stubbornly ...

... seems to have been originally designed in its present form chiefly to explain why Ce left the Tories and took office under the Whig Earl Grey-a change which, according to Lord Palmesrston's chivalrous sense of honour, could only be justified by the fact that ...

... conduct of the working men will justify f4 . a further extension of the franchise to their class, the h Tories, and moderate Whigs, chuckling in the r anticipation that the rioting, bribery, treating, and v general corruption, will justify them in holding ...

... wan tendered to tha- Roman Catholics as to the very foolish part they were acting in going against their old friends, the Whigs,. and supporting their hereditary enemies and persecu- tors, the Tories. We ventured to remonstrate with our Catholic brother ...

... ought to be disfranchised, and would have been dis. franchised 35 years ago, but for the Whig proprietors. Let care be exercised lest the Tories, like the Whigs, should seek to benefit themselves, rather than the people at large, in making the changes ...

... expre great regret at tile signal defeat of the Marquis o' Ii[ e ington. He represented not only the herditr aiec of the great Whig family of the Caeealiaheo but sloe the. devotion to Liberal princ~plex. 1h ?? the victory to the personal popuilarity of Celel ...

... kinda of antagonists. ! The Conservatives detest his political views; the Radicals cannot abide his Church views; and the Whigs will not comfortably follow a man whose family was unacquainted both with Lord Somers and Mr. Fox. The struggles of so powerful ...

... Commons, and when his now historical Approp - tion Clause was at once the embarrassment of the Whigs, and- the terror of the Tories. Neither liked it but the Whigs then depended upon popular and not upon court, support; and they dared not resist a Motion ...

... been prepared, but nothing to excite interest in the country. The question of retrenchment, one of the old watchwords of the Whigs, at one time threatened to become a parlia- mentary topic, but the moment Lord Palmerston saw what was brewing, he adroitly ...