... 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 ...

... n. Diligent and accessible in office, an excellent Parliamentary speaker, and socially a popular and influential man, the Whigs rejoiced when left, first, the Conservative and then the Peelite ranks, and became heartily one of themselves. It is no secret ...

... has been heard outside of the Fishmonger's Company, of which ia prime warden, and in thai capacity gives good dinners to the Whig favourite* of the City. meeting' of the Liberal party was held discuss his elaims, and they resolved to support him. Tbe contest ...

... llousea, and Shope in good repair, and well tenanted. The whole will be exposed for in One Lot at the 17poet Price of ; and Whig a Sale In this manner, in Lots, as follows, via. : Lot I, No, 11l MADRAS STREET, M the Pinot Price of .85 0 0 Lot Si GRANT ...

... 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 ...

... potatoes is referred to by two of our correspondents this week, but in such way to excite neither alarm nor distrust. —northern Whig. The Potato Cbop » Ireland.—The locs which reiulted from the deficiency of Ireland's potato crop last year far exceeded the ...

... a desire to introduce some Liberal elements into it, and to take advantage of talent even when it exists out of the proper Whig circle. LORD John Russell (the name comes familiar to ut , , though it is no longer the correct one), was introduced to the ...

... which he was not entitled, had so passed by mistake. There was a case some years ego, where • Scotch Radical attached to the Whig Government of William IV. was presented as Coiesel, although he had retired front the army. The King, on hearing the name ...

... a desire to introduce some Liberal elements into it, and to take advantage of talent even when it exists out of the proper Whig circle. LORD John Rumen (the name comes familiar to us, though it is no longer the correct one), was introduced to the House ...

... seat in the House of Lords as Earl Russell, of Kingston-Russell in Dorset, and Viscount Amberley, of Ardsalla, in Heath. Most Whigs will feel that a rank less than earldom would have been below his just claims, yet it must not be forgotten that overleaping ...