... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... has wrested the representation of the borough from the hands of the Whigs. The battle of Conservatism and Whiggism has been fought out in Devonport with everything in favour of the Whig nominee, and the result is that Devonport adds her name to the long ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... because this second establishment is not supported by county magnates. Nothing cotfid more deliciously characteristic of your Whig peer. Devon County School West Btckland is patronised by the Earl himself, by the Duke of Bedford, and by-other magnates; ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...