... compliance with his own view of the necessities of his position, he proposed to offer high office to several members of the Whig party and even to certain members of Lord Kussell's Govern- ment. He should, therefore, have to ask from his own sup- porters ...

... much doubting the veracity of the comparison made by his opponent between the old Whig and the new, and bluntly asking the question for the peeple's solution, if the Whig party have been lukewarm in the cause of reform. Again, Liberal members in the House ...

... atJWindsor. Her dying wish was to be intened at Kensal-greeu, where other remains of the family now lie. A Goon SLIDE!—The Quincy Whig says that Professor Quinn, of New York, who is out west on a lecturing tour, has reached that place direct from St. Paul on ...

... existence of a Whig ministry; that every Whig ministry now says of this evil spirit, as every Whig used to toast The liberty of the press,— 'Tis like the air we breathe, if we have it not we die. There is a com- pact between them; the Whig Faust has sold ...

... going on everywhere arouud him, when the country, eager for the ejection of the Whig ministers, were yet unable all at once to unwind the bonds that the first bust of Whig enthusiasm, after the passing of the Reform Bill, had thrown round them. He warmly ...

... es in Whig legislation. Then, as to Legal Reform, their desire for it is suffi- ciently evidenced in their pertinacious opposition to anything of the kind proposed last year by the Con- servative Ministry. What really useful step have the Whigs taken ...

... to belong. The differences of party (putting out of view the reasonless dogmas of ultra-Liberalism) are next to nothing. The Whig and the Tory, the Conservative and the Liberal, if they could forget their colours and talk about measures not relating to ...

... especially do these de- basing characteristics apply to the cheap and nasty publications, invariably of radical and ultra- whig proclivities, of which that most obnoxious and revolutionary measure of our protean CHAN- CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, Mr. GLADSTONE ...

... , and of course those eminently respectable politicians, Sir George Grey and Sir Charles Wood, were content to prove their Whig principles by keeping their places. To the ap- pointment of Lord Clarendon to the Foreign Office little exception could be ...

... members of the Upper House from giving that due deliberation required by measures of public importance. Further, too, the Whigs are espe- cially to blame for their flashes at legislation—attempts to pass measures which they have no sincere and deter- ...

... that deliberation which is so essential on many of the important qiltestions submitted to it. Really, in the hands of the Whigs, legislation is become quite a farce, as we shall presently have to show, by the manner in which they have passed through this ...

... the bar of Spring- field. In politics, to which, whilst following his profes- sion, he paid great attention, he joined the Whig party, and was a warm supporter of Henry Clay. In 1846 he was elected to Congress, and continued to belong to it till 1849 ...