... Secretary. Such a man, it Is evident, must have some sort of official aptitude ; he mast be something more than a respectable Whig baronet, or a decent literary man. He bas been in office so long, that he must have acquired a good character. It is not mere ...

... IRISH PROSPERITY.. The Northern Whig, in a woad eras* supporting its vices previously expressed, aa to the geaeral increase of Irish prosperity within the last few years, gives the loikwing statistioa, not quoted in the Cult inattutoe:— While the Lumber ...

... the Under- Secretary at War iu the House of Commons? Clever young men of any stamina are very scarce. The rising hope of the Whigs, young Byng, is not a muscular Christian ; and it is very difficult to carry off honours in a working department of the Commena ...

... retain his position—a position requiring no ordinary tact awl activity. Manchester is div.ded not eo much Into Tories and Whigs as into tbo friends of the late Anti-Corn Law League, and their encodes. Mr. Bright represented the former class ; Sir Thomas ...

... English newspapers do, to the reproduction of opinions, whether Liberal or Conservative, aristocratic or democratic, Tory, Whig, or Radical, attacked the very principles of out institutions, and even the dynaety itself, I felt myself bound, if I was to ...

... they have taken his word and faithful promiiie, the only reason they have not risen in their might, and demanded from a rotten Whig. Government the fulfilment of the pledge given. When drones in the hive consume and destroy all the honey, the industrious ...

... already show contribe lions amounting to £l,OOO. The Conservatives have added another vote to their parliamentary power, and the Whig majority is getting small by degrees and beautifully lead. Mr. Gordon, eon of the late and brother of the present Earl of Aberdeen ...

... Ahl timid fhe recitals:lr, we're too tar north for them bore, The phrase tar north is a Scottish mode of indleatlnk the Whig wide awake. or alive to the &tat- tion of error. ...

... advocating, but only extended the power of the classes already in power. The contest for power bad heretofore been between the Whigs and Tories, but now the moneyed aristocracy was also contesting with them for place, and if they got it the betiding influence ...

... Macaulay, as may be verified by reference to the Fifth Volume of his History of England, are: canvassed actively on the Whig side! A FOOLISH REMARK. The fight was a Do, and all Brighton's in frowns, Said Lord Jvbe to his friend Captain Grinnum ...

... his father's barony of Howland. The lath Duke, duvng his public career in the Lower House, voted on all occasions with the Whig party; and, although an nnfrequent speaker in the House of Peers, invariably supported the views and measures of the Wbig ...

... was, of course, like his father, a Tory; and in these days every election in the county of Flint was a ;cont es t between the Whig Moetyns and the Tory Glynis. Mr. Gladstone married a sister of the present Sir Stephen Glyn, and, of course, helped him with ...