... his party iv legal ability ; and a yet stronger evidence is afforded by the choice of his successor. In all the ranks of the Whig supporters there is not a lawyer whose reputation would justify the Government in appointing him successor to Sir William Atherton ...

... GOVERNMENT DEFEATS. It was an independent supporter of a former Whig- radical administration who compared the Ministry to a tough beefsteak, because it took a great deal of beating. Certainly the Palmerston Ministry ought to be tender by this time, for ...

... the Gazette. It is very possible that Lord John may not b2 free from the hankering after titles which seems to be part of the Whig nature — not a very consistent characteristic, you will say, of a party which is only powerful by allying itself with the Demo- ...

... and driven to find a seat in the Irish nomination borough of Bandon Bridge. In IS3O, on the succession of Lord Grey and the Whigs to office, he was made Paymaster of the Forces, but ** ithout a seat in the Cabinet. He was nevertheless appointed one of a ...

... where, seem to have given satisfaction to nobody. Here I are the old names again. No amonnt merit outside I of the charmed Whig circle, with which lord Palmerston I surrounds himself will help man to high office. I Some of the veterans are in foiling ...

... party interests and parky passions. The question has been fought ont so Peng— it is little less than thirty years since the Whig Ministry attempted to get rid of chorchrates — that it might be thought it is fully understood, and ripe for a decision. But ...

... 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 mu. t, of course, be construed made in favour of Mr. Gladstone. Lord Palmerston cannot in the nature ...

... office of Solicitor-General is thus reu- dered vacant. — Globe. The Wolverhampton election has resulted in the return cf the Whig candidate on Tuesday. The numbers were — Wegueliu 1317 Griffiths 761 Hill 637 Acts of Parliament. — Up to the present period ...

... elsew'. , seem ham givcu satt-faclmii to iiol ody. Here ar ...

... or another. It seems, too, that a seat has been found for Mr. Palmer at Richmond, by the retirement of Mr. Rich, a veteran Whig hack, whose only claim to posterity lies in the late Mr. Drummond's happy application to his latter condition, of Gilray's ...

... bar in 1837, being then 25 years of ago, became a Queen’s Counsel 1849, and, as Peelite, has been equally passed over by the Whigs and Derby Conservatives. As he is not only one of the first, if not the first man at the Equity bar, and was a successful speaker ...

... readers will have already that Mr. Roundell the Solicitpr-General of Lord Palmerston's Administration, is to the nominee of Whig Lord Zetland for the borough Richmond. His i acceptance of office aud of this scat clearly amount* to abandonment of his p ...