... short interval during which, to use the metaphor of Mr. Disraeli, Sir Robert Peel, who found •the Whigs bathing had runaway with their clothes, the jrreat Whig lords, with the deceased Marquis their head, ever since the formation of Lord Grey's Cabinet the ...

... 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 ...

... hoist with their own petare, than thel Bill was shelved. Reform was not only abandoned, but treated with contempt by the Whig occupants of the Treasury Bench; and the Minister who had once shed tears when forced by his colleagues to postpone his Bill ...

... the opinion of all, the Whig Ministers, who, for a dozen years, have been urging towards further innovations both in Church and State, have proved themselves be unsafe leaders. As the sole means of retaining office, the Whigs now repudiate their old measures ...

... couched in the most common-place phrases; and were it not that we have become accustomed by experience to these displays of Whig platitudes, we might be disposed to take serious exception to the practice. The author can only claim credit for its negative ...

... exception of a short interval during which- *J the metaphor of Mr. Disraeli, Sir Robert Feel, the Whigs bathing had runaway with their clothes, tn W Whig lords, with the deceased Marquis a t ever since the formation of Lord Grey's Cabinet, tD $ meeting ...

... DEATH OP THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE. This venerable Whig nobleman died on Saturday, his country seat of Bowood, and by his death one of the few links that connect the present generation with the great names of Fox and Pitt has been removed. He was born ...

... express his opinion on the melancholy state of Ireland. Its Government was utterly incapable. Its head was surrounded with old whigs, who kept him in utter ignorance, and its chief staff was both incapable and unpopular. There was every element of distress ...

... 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 ...

... lesson, that if they propose, the electors dispose. In common with other constituencies, Devonport has shown that it is not Whig-Radical its politics ; and has manifested its independence in the face of impediments that could only have been overcome by ...

... injuries received in the Clayton tunnel last year. The breach of promise case, Russell v. Adams, has terminated. The folio whig verdict was returned : As plaintiff has not made out her case to our entire satisfaction, we of necessity find a verdict for ...

... Conservative or had never opposed them; but the efforts of Pittand ' Lord Bolingbrooke before him had bo resisted. by the Whigs. Heo had, many years ago, called attention to the polcy of commercial treaties, which was then condemned by the hon, member ...