... TOPICS OF THE DAY.' lit:, . »V . a Thk ask xhkik Law-Officers.— After much diplomatic management official squabbling, the Whigs, have contrived to get law-officers. Their next and more unpleasant task may be to get both into the House of Commons. At first ...

... already leamt that Mr. Roundell Palmer, the Solicitor-General of Lord Palmerston’s Administration, is to be the nominee of the Whig Lord Zetland ftir the borough of Richmond. His acceptance of office and of this seat clearly amounts to an abandonment of his ...

... country, involved in Lord John Russell’s translation, is the resignation of his reversionary claim to the leadership of the Whig party —a resignation that must, of course, be construed made in favour of Mr. Gladstone. Lord Palmerston cannot in the nature ...

... elsewhere, seem to have given satisfaction to nobody. Here are the old names again. No amount of merit outside of the charmed Whig circle, with which Lord Palmerston surrounds himself, will help a man to high office. Some of the veterans are failing health ...

... by no means few individuals who first signed the address inviting the Lord Mayor to stand, and then, for reasons which the Whigs know well how to apply, turned round and voted against him. Their names ought to be gibbeted throughout England. But notwi ...

... speech of Mr. Roebuck Sheffield, both indicating the increased carelessness of the Liberal party to its own best interests. The Whigs can carry South Lancashire whenever they are excited enough to agice among themselves, and the absence of excitement betrays ...

... pheasant, We’ll forget the talk incessant— Weary words. Only hoping, when theflyingdays of our recess are dying, We may shoot our Whig friends flying Like the birds. The Press. RAPID GROWTH OP THE NATIONAL EXPENDITURE. Complaints of taxation are at present numerous ...

... Piers Geale, and widow of Sir Marcus Somerville, Bart. The deceased nobleman had for many tears been a zealous supporter of the whig party, and bad done g service to his poll! leal friends during his long career in the Hone of Commons, more especially duriug ...

... bore the nickname of the Newfoundland dog,” from the alacrity with which he used to rush forward with a resolution to save the Whig Ministers from a difficulty. His successor and son, Lord Ebrington, swallowed all the pledges of the Marylebone Vestry, and ...

... —Hookham. Why shouldn’t he marry again? I often say to him, ‘Ringwood, why don’t you marry, if its only to disappoint that Whig fellow,* Sir John. You are fresh and hale, Kingwood. You may live twenty years, five and twenty years. If you leave your niece ...

... Hutt, M.P., Sir W. Atherton, M.P., nearly all the local Liberal members of Parliament, the Dean of Durham, and most of the Whig gentry, clergy, and manufacturers in the two north-eastern counties. Lord Palmerston, accompanied by Admiral Grey and Captain ...

... subsequent success in life. He served for three months in the campaign, and on his return was in the same year nominated a whig candidate for the legislature ; bat the county being democratic, he was beaten, though his own election precinct gave him 277 ...