... TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE WHIGS AND THEIR LAw-OFFMERS.—After much diplomatic management and official squabbling, the Whigs have contrived to get law-officers. Their nex i and more unpleasant task may be to get both into the Houso of Commons. At first the ...

... public career in the Lower House, voted on all occasions with the Whig party; and, although an unfrequent speaker in the House of Peers, invariably supported the views and measures of the Whig Governments. On the death of his father, in October, 1839, he ...

... We'jl forget the talk incessant- Weary words. Only hoping, when the flying days of our recess are dying, We may shoot our Whig friends flying Like the birds. The Press. ...

... student at Lincoln's-inn. His means were narrow, but a countryman, Serjeant Spankie, had the direction of the then ov-an of the Whigs—the Morning Chronicle-and by this influence he was enabled to earn a sufficient income to maintain him as a gallery reporter ...

... done to all the users and consumers of cotton by the two Governments of America.-London Review. CONSERVATIVE REACTION.—The Whigs will not in- terpret the Conservative reaction truly unless thev leain that the Conservatives always gain, and we will add ...

... 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 legis- lature but the county being democratic, he was beaten, though his own election precinct gave him 277 ...

... and two years afterwards he was returned for Carlisle on Whig principles. His abilities soon became apparent after he entered the House of Commons, and he was deemed a great acquisition to the Whigs, a political party then hourly gaining strength in the ...

... was, of course, like his father, a Tory; and in these days every election in the county of Flint was a [contest between the Whig Mostyns and the Tory Glyns. Mr. Glad- stone married a sister of the present' Sir Stephen Glyn, and, of course, helped him with ...

... by no means few individuals who first signed. the address inviting the Lord Mayor to stand, aud then, for reasons which the Whigs know well how to apply, turned round and voted against him. Their names ought to be gibbeted through- out England. But not ...

... became law, and it is, I think, universally felt that the arrangement then made can no longer be defended or maintained. Three Whig Governments, one Coali- tion Government, and one Tory Government have within the last ten years admitted this. The Queen has ...

... English newspapers do, to the repro- duction of opinions, whether Liberal or Conservative, aristocratic or democratic, Tory, Whig, or Radical, attacked the very principles of our institutions, and even the dynasty itself, I felt myself bound, If I was to ...

... 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 as made m favour of Mr. Gladstone, Lord Palmerston cannot in the nature ...