... METROPOLITAN GOSSIP.—LORD RUSSELL. Whatever may be said of Lord Russell a politician,” said an old Whig of quality, the other day, “even the Tories cannot deny that he is true Christian; for returns them nothing but good for evil.” Patronage has indeed ...

... is Mr. Bussell Gurney. It is possibly not the intention of Earl Bussell make the present Ministry be regarded solely a great Whig institution, of which his Lordship forms the central figure ; but the delay which has occurred in filling up vacant appointments ...

... prophesying Brahmins in th* great Whig Hons* somewhere, and I dare say they ate foretelling all sorts of evils that may oome from th* passing of this bill.—(Laughter.) I have heard member, and a member since then of Whig Cabinet, dsclat* that believed that ...

... —no doubtful token of a resolute attachment to the cause of Liberty. three were brought up as Whigs, and all three became, in course time, Conservative Whigs. But, setting party names aside, all who have had the hoßonr of Mr. Bussell Gurney’s acquaintance ...

... ministerial” attitude than ewer before. He seems disposed to support the Government on very low terms. In 1859 thought the Whig Reform Bill poor and insignificant, and gave the public plan of his own. A month ago, he bad lowered his tone, and professed ...

... snggeeted— not ' that in order to neutralise the extreme of Mr. Fostee and Mr. Stansfeld, Mr, Beioiit, now that has become a Whig, ought also to have a place the Government ...

... his colleagues to stand up, in 1866, and that such disfranchisement is objectionable. The point is surrendered, and if the Whigs and Liberals not at onos seize upon it, their backwardness can only be accounted for in one way,—they have not a sincere will ...

... only '- i just out” the day that the mail left New York, it isnrobahl y the first that has reached this country. —Nortf tern Whig, Loss of Two Merchant Ships*- -Intelligence was received Bristol on Saturday of the loss of the St. George, bound from Uuebec ...

... SUPPOSED MURDER IX BELFAST. A paragraph appeared ia Friday*! Whig, stating that, the 14th of December, a carter, who was in Belfast on that day, been missing. The ease appear* to be of mystery, when the whole fact* are taken into consideration. and it ...

... and passed, and the Whigs would have been compelled afterwards to introduce another bill, going still further, in order to regain their prestige as Liberals and Reformers. We must here remark, that a Reform measure passed by the Whigs, with a Conservative ...

... weak, woefully weak. If faith bo always then Earl Russell must be strong, for has hniUees faith himself, but even a strong Whig armoured in principle?, quilted with apophthegms, buttressed noble «miai. not by himself Cabinet. There is the Reform Bill ...

... not too formidable a Literal' in office, does not exactly belong to the sacred caste of Whig placeholders. It would, besides. I be excessively cruel to give noble Whig lords patronage, and forbid them to use it in any way which is favourable to their own ...