... appointment the Daily Express remarkslt must be said of the Whigs that when they are in power they always promote men as the reward of public service, but it must be service rendered to the Whig party. Without this no amount of merit will be of the slightest ...

... lifetime of their fathers. Those in italics are the English titles of Irish and Scotch peers promoted : BY CONSERVATIVE MINIS. BY WHIG-RADICAL MINIS TRIES. EA RLDOMS. TRIES. EARLDOMS. None. VISCOUNTCIES. None. 1841. Fitzbardinge. VISCoUNTCIES. 1839. Ponsonby ...

... venture on an analysis of this anomaly we shall find its elements in the constitution of the Coalition itself. A combination of Whigs, Peelites, Liberals, and Radicals, could never work well. There might be individual ability, but there would be no power or ...

... paper is to come out in Berlin. Which of the two will carry the prize? Well, if lam to judge by the great success of your Whig, Liberal, and Radical organs during the present session, as I have the great weakness to lay an unusual weight on the political ...

... aware of the probable calls on the public purse is a fact that speaks volumes of the recklessness and utter incompetency of our Whig Chancellor of the Exchequer. The first estimate for the expenses of the China war, taken together with two votes of credit ...

... Roman Catholics were the agr.ressors in this unfortunate affair, having assailed the other party with stones, and the Belfast Whig says that this assault was provoked by one of the Orangemen firing a shot at the cross of the Lurgan Chapel. Two of the wounded ...

... right in denouncing the government as they did de when the government did not exactly agree with them, and complain that the Whigs had thrown them over, and taunt the goverment that they only held office by the good will of those below the gangway. He agreed ...

... play, an admirable performance in every way, and one which does credit to the constitutional knowledge and patriotism of the Whig leader. We venture to say there was a more real grasp of the great principles of the constitution in Lord PALMERSTON'S speech ...

... difficult. In the fist place the principle of the bill has been condemned. To any but a Whig Government this blow would have been suffl_ cient. But it is not in the habit of Whig Ministers to saaifice anything to a principle, and therefore we have a compromise ...

... is very different. Here is the veteran leader of the House of Commons, the chief of t-e great Liberal party, the head of the Whig Radical Government, acknowledging that the Lords had a perfect right to act as they have done, accepting almost with gratitude ...

... would be increased if France were allowed to become predominant in Italy. Lord J. RUSSELL defended the course which successive Whig Governments had pursued with regard to the affairs of Naples. Her Majesty's Government had constantly recommended the King ...

... very manageable, and indeed formidable machine. The story is told of a well-known naval commander who was offered a seat in a Whig Board of Admiralty, that he declined the honour with the remark, that .he preferred remaining an honest man. The expression ...