... was canvassing Cambridge University, and asked Musgravo, afterwards Archbishop of York, for his vote, tho reply was am a Whig still, sir ! Musgrave's dog was couchant under the chair on which the candidate was sitting, and he was advised to take caro ...

... asked to do so. began life as a barrister of seven year's standing—one of the snug Whig creations—and ended life one the inevitable three baronets whom no Whig ministry could do without. In private life he was ono of mosfe amiable of men, and he ...

... your feet ' How delightful the joy of which nobody knows*! And the thoughtshow sublime, whichlie Under the Rose.' The Whigs they may fancy they govern the State, the world they may seem to prevail debate; ±$ut now is the season the truth to disclose— ...

... pace and at the proper time, but it is clear that their only notion of either consists what may necessary to outilank their Whig rivals in a forward march. When, therefore, these latter have shut themselves up in quarters which they have no mind to change ...

... left for tho south. The Scotsman announces tho death of Mr. John Clark, the last surviving member of famous Westminster Whig Committee, in tho proceedings of which, at tho beginning of the present century, Paul Tholwall and Home Tooke wore so intimately ...

... political wisdom it has this month for its readers. Sir James ia represented aa having passed through three political phases —Whig, and something more—Conservative—Peelite. There is no apotheosis for him either man, a landlord, or a politician. One good ...

... phrases which in Royal Speeches are thought appropriate as descriptions of every petty bill of a bankrupt Cabinet. The fate of a Whig Government never yet depended on a measure of public usefulness, and wo may be certain that in the existing state of parties ...

... at the Foreign Office will be brief. It is time that our foreign relations were placed under more efficient direction. The Whigs at all times have proved the most incapable of all administrators ; and their failings have never been more glaring than at ...

... upset, Mr. Disraeli tells us, coalitions, which he describes his bitterest style—in the first instance by the junction of the Whigs and the Peelitea—-these were the celestial archangels ; and the next time a coalition with the followers of Mr. Bright, that ...

... . At no period during the last thirty years has there been manifested a more earnest and determined effort to put down the Whig-Radical combination under which the country has so long suffered. Wherever, Sir Stafford Northcote truly stated, an election ...

... Lansdowne the Secretaryship of the Home Office, an offer which the marquis accepted, with the approbation of the best men of the Whig party. Under Canning's successor, Lord Lansdowno became Foreign Minister. These, however, were Ministries of short duration ...

... the nation P Or is the Prince of WALEs's honeymeon only the excuse for official inaction I ss the real reason the traditional Whig instinct of self-preservation? Is it that they see and recognise the fell force of the dis- agreeable fact, that their existence ...