... duty, working together with ambition for distinction at the English bar which about this time powerfully affected the young Whigs, When I first reached London, says Campbell, I performed the journey in three nights and two days, Mr. Palmer's mail coaches ...

... a seat if the. Peel Cabinet. But in 1846, the breaking up of the Conserve-. tive party paved the way for the return of the Whigs, and it was not until the close of 1852 that he returned to office, and in the same capacity, under the Administration then ...

... mistresses in theirs, it is imposoible to provost their login losers;. but the evil (if evil it be) might sorely lassoed by their Whig acknowledged, instead of ferlidden. the them they will ; them let it be done openly, with the mistress's permission, at stated ...

... of the property, the title and peerage will be resuscitated the person of Lord John Russell. The retirement of this eminent Whig statesman from the House of Commons leaves the leadership of the Liberal party a sure inheritance to Mr. Gladstone on the next ...

... 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- ...

... remembered curious part of the history of our jurisprudence, and ospeeiallf of the history of our medical jurisprudence. No whig member of the Lower House, with the single excep tion of Montague, filled a larger apace in the public eye than William Cowper ...

... under the roof which had often echoed his eloquence, with the Whig lord, who was one of the conspiracy which vexed him with dogged hostility until lie sunk prematurely under the trial the Whigs hunted CANNING to death because he had inaugurated a large-minded ...

... already learnt that Mr. Roundell Palmer, the Solicitor-General of Lord Palmereton's Administration, is to be the nominee of the Whig Lord Zetlend for the borough of Richmond. His acceptance of office and of this seat clearly amounts to an abandonment of his ...

... the state, Lord John Russell's accession to the peerage would have been regarded with veritable dismay. The fortunes of the Whigs seemed for years to rest upon the shoulders of the scion of the House of Bedford. He was their acknowledged champion, the tactician ...

... of it has come upon the public as • surprise. Though no one could assert that such • tribute to the I services of the great Whig Minister would be ill earned or inappropriate, it seemed scarcely possible to dissever his Lordship from the House in which ...

... 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 mails favour of Mr. Gladstone. Lord Palmerston cannot in the nature ...

... of the man between two stools. Conservatism is greatly in the ascendant. Even the city of London, so long represented by a Whig, will this election select tried and staunoh member of the Conservative party. Lord Mayor Cubitt has already sat many years ...