... 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 ...

... acquiesce in the monopoly of administration by a few great Whig families; that Reform and Libe- ralism are not mere pass-worcte invented to faci- litate the admission of scions of three or four Whig ducal houses into the high offices of State. Of course ...

... 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 ...

... Parliamentary cai 111 •. they will in not a few cases run a Radi- Wh a Whig, and thus let in a Tory. t}je etl ^hey cannot find a candidate of their own, iio 03a^' regard the contest of a Whig of Mr. and 8-8 s^amP with a Conservative with apathy 1:1 indifference ...

... Statesmen in their Second Childhood. FOB A PREMIER. Twaddle, twaddle, little Pam, ij' While you utter Here I am, Up among the Whigs so high, What a pretty boy am I! FOR A FOREIGN SECRETARY. Write letters cross, And threatening force, You silly old party ...

... not willing to fulfil the pledges uf 1859 and 1860. When it is a questiou of reform or foxpnlsion from office, he >'aY8, the Whig s a'e-men will decide h, fIIvur of tefoi m. Tnis is the only effectual mode ot dealing with thll1, and he hop it will be ...

... , 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- ...

... was more excitement last time, for then the Whigs intended to throw out the Tories, but, if we are to judge from the Buckinghamshire manifesto, the Tories are not now really intending to throw out the Whigs. Contests always brinsr out party feeling, but ...