... weakest member of the Palmerston Administration, who owes his place in the Cabinet exclusively to his connection with the great Whig families —whose own friends will not confide to him any office of importance—who has just been passed ove in the selection ...

... fulfilling hia eng >gement by a severe attack of neuralgia. Touching the Russell Resignation. —We knew it wm all nonsense. A Whig is like the old French Guard—he dies, but never surrenders.— Punch. A Pet Dog. —Lady. What earth, Mary, have you been doing ...