... It is known to be Russell's wish ( to meet the new Parliament with its few changes as possible, J 'out the weakness of the Whigs in the House of Commons 2 (where Palmerston was a host) will compel some alterations, I Any ,arrangement, however, ioust ha ...

... suode of strengthening the Cabinet in the Lower House. Nobody is willing to give way-even the juniors, strong in their old Whig support- refuse to resign. Of course these are mere rumnours and suppositions,and I should he very sorry to vouch for their ...

... Earl is in a most uncom- fortableposstion. He cannot stand alone; and he can only conciliate the Radicals by disgusting the Whigs. And even if he could bring the Wigs and Radicals together,no House of Commons will acquiesce for a fortnight in a Government ...

... pass. But Lord 1, Palmerston wee not an old Whig, and, besides this, the 0 geniality of his nature would have made such an aimprisonment intolerable to him; and I am persuaded that, Iif he had bean a great Whig duke- master of half a 0 servile shigre -and ...

... tion of the discontent of the Radicals with the present composition of Earl RUSSELL'S Ministry. The Radicals suspect the Whigs. The Whigs are jealous of the Radicals. LoRD STANLEY, in a speech at Liverpool on the opening of a Gymnasium, asserts that half ...

... him, but nobody could suggest the unioe of the commoner. I suspect the story arose out of the necessity of strengthening the Whigs in the Lower I-louse, and the First Lord was the only peer who could be wvell spared. I do not think it at all likely that ...

... for the great Whig leaders of the past. He believes they were all either oligarehs or poltroons. The explanation is very simple. It is this. Neither the Tories nor the Whigs of the present day hold the principles of the Tories or Whigs of the past in ...

... he sat down thatt these wee no reason why the working men of this country should not be Conservatives, instead of Radicals, Whigs, or E Chartists. -(Hear, ?? would ask working men plainly whether Radical masters paid better wages than Conservative masters ...

... the Corn Laws, though they have long ago most conveniently forgotten the opposition of the Whigs to a proposal which was for many years thought wi by both Whigs and Tories to be tantamount to the po ruin of the agricultural classes of Great Britain. Bi ...

... spoken of, but I have never seen it. One does not like to see such men in the ranks of the enemy; but if we must be governed by Whigs and Radicals, at least we have not to blush for Mr. Gbschen, who avill cut a greater figure than Mr. Hutt did. The latter was ...