... 1I859, at Willis's Rooms, a reconcilia. tion was patched up between the whig leaders (then out of office) andthe various sections of the opposition. Ib Was then understood that the Whig magnates should forego theirmonopoly of place, and consent to the in ...

... of Mr. Roundell Palmer for the important office of Solicitor- General. Mr. Palmer has always been more of a Tory than of a Whig. Indeed, the reactionary party have hardly yet ceased to look up to him as one of their ablest champions. Mr. Gladstone having ...

... 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 ...

... his early sncces?'-; I, tr of latc years, Lord John has allowedl hiinisttl i ioe permeated to such ati extent by Whig (:dec iriS .nid Whig nostrums that lie cannot hop1 to enihlltilo his name as Lord Ludlow in the anna!s of ?? co wi -re. Sanguine as he ...

... deliver himself from the tutelage of the hereditary Whig idea, and throw himself in search of colleagues upon the coun- try which has stood by him in difficult times, which has kept him in power in spite of Whig and Tory, which has endorsed his foreign and domestic ...

... of a certainly'muchlees' vitg'or'ouaspes, sure from 'the 'sanecquarter, he has clung to the Aus- ' trian-oreed of-the old _Whig ptqrty, and ostentatiously refused, by every means in his power, the shadow of a moral sanotioi to. the- Hungarian movement ...

... health onanynarrow, restricted, jealous, captious, ungenerous principles of exclusion. And in that respect I claim for the old whigs a truer liberality, because they possessed a larger tolera. tioh, than such modern liberals as would refuse to accept the accession ...

... to ce the vacant post of Solicitor-General. The new in th official is at present without a seat in Parliament; of but the Whigs, who, of course, always despise party st intrigues and electioneering maneuvres, have pre- _ vailed upon an old political hack ...

... the Duke 1 of DEVoNSnIRE, by way of clenching the Ministerial _ alliances with the old Whig families. The Daidy News, 0 the faithful and consistent exponent of Whig-Radical opinions and principles, cannot however get over its _ mortification at the selection ...

... demonstrative politician; but his pre- dilections were, IYbelieve, Conservative. This trivial circamstance ought not, even under Whig rule, to have obstructed a promotion which was the just re- ward of talent, and learning, and character; and it is happily ...

... side w hil Earl Russell has children born to pick ulp the plmnis that belong to the Houses of Bedford, Cavendish, and Co. More Whig peers, anld more sucing his, to ho future millisters will look for support, and for wlhll theylmlllst find places. The adaptability ...

... 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 ...