... impossible that the one office of which Lord Russell can now dispose would be conferred on a meritorious but uninfluential Whig underling, distinguished rather by social qualities than by political knowledge or parliamentary ability. We should have thought ...

... ex|K*riments with new Mood. He clings to the Lichfield House theory, to the family party programme, to the one and indivisible Whig belief in a succession of heaven-bom officials. That constitutes his power in the midst of the cold ami narrow clique which ...

... With much respect for his judgment, we rather believe that Mr. BASS would have done well not to contrast the oratory of the Whig juniors with that of the Opposition. He is obliging enough to admit the existence of a little talent in association with the ...

... Bill involved a change in the burden of local taxation the effect in Mr. Henley’s case, as he pathetically put it, was that a Whig Peer was to be relieved for the purpose taxing a Tory Commoner, and hence the exhibition of what we may call statistical i ...

... rather defective appreciation of public feeling. In these days, we are too apt forget that Lord Russell was one of that earlier Whig party who had long fight rather against than with anything that then existed public opinion, as well as against Courts and ...

... nearly thirty years of office is concentrated tl in an incredibly small number of hands, and as the | Ministry dies out the Whig party is in great danger of it finding itself very much in the same position as in 1831,—not without ability and good intention ...

... iv which I myself was Foreign Minuter, that iv 1889 recognised tfae empire with the cordiality of whicb M. Cohen speak*. Th. Whig Ministry did not come into power UU early in 1803, five weeks after tbe empire bad bun established iv Prauce aud recognised ...

... whilst Radicals are I awaiting a settlement between the independent Liberalism I of 1865 and the historical Wbiggery of 1832. WHIG EXCLUSIVEEISfL It i> reported that the only Miobterial vacancy left open—the Chancellorship the Dnchy of Lancasterhas been ...

... that the Premier is not, in the language of Punch, strong enough for the place. By selecting his colleagues from the old Whig families and altogether ignoring the claims of the rising outsiders of the great Liberal party, the noble Earl leaves himself ...

... Only a Clod.' It is well written, has a capital plot, is well stocked with cisaracter, and is adequately eventful.—Northern Whig. ...

... merits or defeats, be has had through life the faculty of making himself necessary to the Liberal party. He is the chief of the Whigs, and that race must always supply a large element to British Governments, because it very closely typifies the country. A Wbig ...

... present it ie weak in the Commons. The Pod remarks that fjord Russell's ministry pretty nearly a homogenous Whig Government. Its alskml partly Whig it externally speaking ■ourot of great dieadrantage and wtakoeea, bat where the OoTernment obtain froth atrengtb ...