... his head nearly off. He died in twenty minutes. At the inquest an Wednesday a verdict of accidental death was returned. The Whigs.—The organs of the Radicals are hopeful that Lord John (as the new chief of the Government is generally called) finds himself ...

... with them a force which direct evidence might not equal, and could hardly surpass. THE DECLINE OF THE WHIG PARTY. The Standard of opinion that the Whigs, as a party, are declining, and that the Radicals are rapidly gaining the lead and mastery of the socalled ...

... club derived its name from the celebrated mutton-pie, which had been christened after its maker. The first members were those Whig patriots who brought about the Revolution and drove out King James. Their object was the encouragement of literature and the ...

... which divide Whig from Tory. I Thus we see that at Nottingham, three Liberals contest the field against one Tory. At Southamp- ton, three 'Liberals against two Tories. At New- caitie-on-Tyne, one Radical ?? two Whigs. 1 At Lancaster, two Whigs against one ...

... tribumal is packed as if the sole object were to ensure acquittal. Six out of eleven members are not merely Whig partisans but official Whigs four of them actually colleagues the accused. What explanation can be given this difference of course, but that ...

... Parliament is dissolved. Lord Alfred Churchill was returned as Conservative, but has sinco seen fit to join the Palmerstonian Whig-Radical party. ...

... many of those obligations which their opponents impose upon themselves. If a Whig ministry, for instance, had been in the same * tion as the Derby ministry of 1852, no Whig first minister would have considered bound in honour to submit to a defeat ...

... to that the Radicals and Whigs should split their votes for Mdl and Grosvenor. That perfect good faith was subsequently kept in this respect is proved by the fact that although 9,0P3 votes were recorded for the Radical and Whig candidates, but five plumpers ...

... SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. WHIG PEERS AND THE ELECTIONS. The Standard comments upon the letter sent Lord Leicester's agent to the tenants of hia lordship in West Norfolk, requesting them to give their votes in favour of the Liberal candidates, Mr. Gurdon ...

... forward as candidate for the representation of Brecon. The other candidates are the Earl of Brecknock, son the Marquis of Camden, Whig, and Mr. Howel Gwyn, the lately defeated Conservative candidate at Barnstaple. Prince Christian.—Many of the Holsteiu political ...

... themselves call an old Tory statesman, would greatly imperil that oligarchical power which the Whigs enjoy under leadership* Everybody seems to be aware that the Whig can only remain in the ascendant so long Lord Palmerston remains at the head of it. oa9 remarkable ...

... it? the Brands and the Hayters, and who can help to save the constitution through the medium of the Whig party, are summoned to the sanctum of the Whig club in Pall Mall, in order to assist in the work. Meanwhile Mr. Hugessen and Colonel White, the new ...