... transpire just on the eve of an election, in which Whig rule is hang- ing in a most uncomfortable balance of suspension. A certainty of the fact would doubtless strike off j some twenty or thirty Whig members, and the } loss of that number would prove ...

... atJWindsor. Her dying wish was to be intened at Kensal-greeu, where other remains of the family now lie. A Goon SLIDE!—The Quincy Whig says that Professor Quinn, of New York, who is out west on a lecturing tour, has reached that place direct from St. Paul on ...

... , and of course those eminently respectable politicians, Sir George Grey and Sir Charles Wood, were content to prove their Whig principles by keeping their places. To the ap- pointment of Lord Clarendon to the Foreign Office little exception could be ...

... shakes a Government more than a great defeat. Lord Russell will take good care of the Whigs, and there are Peelites in the Cabinet. But Mr. Gladstone is not a Whig, and something more than a Peelite; and it is his duty to see that those who look to him ...

... escaped the flames. The poor peasants have lost nearly all the forage for their cattle. THE CROPS IN IRELAND.—The Northern Whig gives good accounts of the harvest in Ireland. The weather has lately been favourable, and a week or ten days more of fine ...

... ciliatory to his followers as he was to the French Emperor. The future biographer of Lord Palmerston, unless indeed he be a Whig of the Whigs, will be strongly tempted to contrast the political career of his hero with that of his friend and colleague, Lord Russell ...

... in which I myself was foreign minister,, that in 1852 recognised the empire with the loyalty oJ: which M, Cohen speaks. The Whig ministry only- returned to power in the early part of 1853, five weeks after the empire was established in France and reeog- ...

... his popularity throughout the country, but his appointment as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on the accession of the Whigs to power was regarded with satisfaction by a large section of the community. We pass over the episode of the dignified rebuke ...

... witnessed in Meyrick's field, as it was then called, where the Market House and Square and other buildings stand now, when the Whigs and Tories were talked so much about, and the shouts of Sleyrick for ever and Cole in the gutter echoed in our streets and ...

... brother to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has come forward as a candidate f6r Kincardineshire, calling himself neither a Tory, Whig, Radical, nor Liberal, but a Conservative Improver, describing the present government as doing nothing, and able to do nothing ...

... earlier ones. The bill in question will not have the effect upon the Cardiff Union it may have on others, but like most of the Whig measures, it is but a half measure. It seeks to do away with Parochial charges and substitutes Union ones, making the entire ...

... politician to study the graces of literary expression, his hand was sharply felt in the Tory mischief then going on. The New Whig Guide, a pleasant battery directed against the Liberal opposition, was mainly, we believe, written by Lord Palmerston, Sir ...