... Tn the most powerful days of the old coalition, when opposition Was all but hopeless, and when to oppose the combination of Whig and Tory was to brave persecution asnd oppression, there wvas regularly a candidate in the field. Those who fought for the ...

... 20th of 1852, hy successfully carrying an amendment to a motion by Lord John Russell relating to tho militia. Thereupon the Whig Cabinet resigned, and tho Earl of Derby became First Lord of the Treasury. In the month of March Lord John Russell withdrew ...

... ~ountry. Apropoosof Dublin Castle-Lord Carlisle I istheb last Lord-Iaeutenant, or to speak with more certainty, the very last Whig. Viceroy you will have in .Ireland. Trhis you may take:for giahted. It is just possible, if the Tories come into officq . that ...

... has received must be pronounced in the highest degree inglorious. But it is only another exhibition of the weakness of the Whig-Radical coalition, and the impossibility of reconciling its conflicting elements, which must end in a fall before long. ...

... forming new Ministry.—The Standard says: one would dream of disputing Mr. Disraeli’s claims to the I’remiershiu. Unlike the Whigs, the Tory tradition recognises claim to precedence the Councils of the Crown, title parliamentary official primacy higher than ...

... who would have satisfied his conscience by giving the benefit of the doubt to the Whigs—albeit that, like the portable-gaslight which Guy Fawkes kould have used, Whigs in James's time had not been invented. We are afraid that there is a great deal of ...

... Parliaj went the Conservatives hod to contend against several , bodies, weak when apart, strong when together. There were the Whigs, commonly called the Russellites,—a num| of gentlemen who choose to call themselves Liberals, and who find themselves puzzled ...

... over which, although nominally there was voting scot and lot, had absolute and entire control. It happened also that wealthy Whig peer was desirous increasing his political influence, and he requested me, then a young man and without the slightest connection ...

... and all great divisions are to be found in different lobbies. In Pailinmeut its voice gives out most uncertain sound, neither Whig nor Tory, but half one and half the other. And, strange to say, though an election is fast approaching, the local Conservative ...

... mounted on the fiery barb of Francis Jeffery; he is rather placed upon hearse horse, with which he consummates the entombment ot Whig principles.-(Loud laughter.) The Conservative surrender, borrow an expression from the pleasing volume of art of ray friend ...

... left behind, fell dead in their tracts from sheer exhaustion. —Richmond Paper. The Spoils of the Federal Army.— The Richmond Whig has the following account of the immense spoils left by the Federal army:—*' From every side hear that the spoils left by General ...

... threw the whole House into a con- Tulsioo. The officials of the Treasury bench, headed hy Mr. Gladstone, fairly roared, and Whig and Tory might everywhere seen holding their sides. The whole speech, which was put into the months of the mythical deputation ...