... WHIG JOBBERY IN THE PEERAGE. In the estimates for 1861 under the head of Civil Contingencies, page 8, we find £512 16s. paid by the Government out of the public monies the cost of Lord Brougham's patent, extending his peerage to bis brother William and ...

... elevated to the Upper House, Wm. Talbot Crosbie, of Ardfert Abbey, The O’Donoghdb, will stand for the conoty: the former on Whig principles. No Conservative move has been as yet made. ...

... more of a Whig and less of a Liberal than he had been when out of office, and did more than any of hia colleagues to reduce the once great party of the Whigs to position in which no one could say a good word for it. Lord John baa been the Whig, par excellence ...

... in the summer of the same year. He was thus open to the proposals of Lord Grey in 1830, and then first became a member of a Whig administration. Of his subordinate, Mr. Gladstone, we need hardly speak. commenced public life as decided Conservative and ...

... arc we to seek onr new representative? is the important question that must soon be decided by the constituency. There are Whigs, save the mark, aye, and UUramontanists too, anxions to occupy Colonel Herbert’s place. But, we ask the Conservatives of Kerry ...

... Rnssell to the peerage is the break op of the old Whig party. There is no one left in the House of Commons to lead the remaining adherents of the great party which so long rated England. Thera are no young Whigs. The generation now assuming the charge of d ...

... y has been carried much too far. Everyone laughs at the trick now. There ia scarcely living notability,” says the Northern Whig, from Lord Brougham to Mr. Thackeray, who has uot found himself reconciled, in the newspapers, to Holy Church.” —Evening Packet ...

... another contest in Oxford might leave him in minority even there, is by no means certain that in Lancashire he would be safe. A Whig Lancashire Paper of Monday (the Liverpool Albion) says:— far as can be gathered from rumours which have obtained some currency ...

... is the source of weakness and of ever-mcreasiug uu- really supposed that we hid outlived the feeling which limited to a few Whig lamiliea all the higher offices of the State, but seem to have annihilated the last ten years, and I to have returned all at ...

... loosed on him. We have sacrificed good deal to democracy, but sacrifices to democracy are not sacrifices to safety, feveo the Whigs (the sacrificers) have not gained by them. The multitude, to whom they were proffered, are not propitiated; and they are in ...

... whether there are adequate reasons for renewing it with the Atlantic Steampacket Company.” Suffice it to say that by one of those Whig mistakes” that used to afford so much amnsement io tbo earlier part of this century, the Postoffice authorities managed to ...

... strengthen the Government. His presence there confirms the impression that the Government of Lord Palmerston, like all other Whig Governments, is little more than a family party. Mr. Frederick Peel is Secretary to the Treasury, and Sir Robert Peel, bis ...