... in compliance with his own view of the necessities of his position, proposed to offer high office to several members of the Whig party, and even to certain members of Lord Russell's Government. He should, therefore, have to ask from his own supporters ...

... husband what is left of England's moral influence, and labour to regain the ascendancy that has been weakened under many years of Whig rule. In domestic policy there is ample room and verge enough for the new Ministers to exercise all their industry, talent ...

... position forensically, has revealed new and unexpected defections from their ranks. The number actually pledged to support the Whigs are of themselves insufficient to avert defeat, and Earl Russell knows not on whom else he may safely rely. His agents in the ...

... everybody declares to be not so well qualified as somebody else who figures in the ranks of her Majesty's Opposition. Neither Whig nor Tory Cabinets are exempt from the universal frailties of humanity, and indeed may be doubted whether in the case of Ad ...

... any longer to deny that the prime object is, not th» settlement of the Reform question, but the prolonged existence of the Whig Ministry. Observe how anxious both the Premier and the Chancellor of the Exchequer were to have it clearly understood that ...

... of his motion for rejecting the Franchise Bill unless the whole Government scheme of reform is laid before Parliament, the Whigs betrayed great dread of defeat. Efforts were made to induce Mr. Gladstone to eat his words and save his party, and Earl Russell ...

... second reading the Reform Bill. Mr. G. Potter occupied the chair, and denounced the vile conspiracy between the aristocratic Whigs and tbe Tories to defeat the bill. Resolutions declaring the bill to be on whole worthy of support, and protesting agaic&t ...

... the Conservatives might leave the work of demolition to their opponents, for a house so divided against itself as the Great Whig Institution must inevitably fall to pieces. But it is satisfactory to see that the movement against the bill is begun by the ...

... lost power—that anything short of absolute defection within, or all-potent hostility without could induce such a good old Whig as Earl Russell to acknowledge his ministerial imbecility; but few of those who received tbe intelligence as authentic felt ...

... those promises had not been fulfilled. In consequence of tbe agitation which had taken place the last few months, most of the Whigs Lad turned Tories, while in many instancss the Tories had turned Liberals. In illustration of the latter statement be reftrred ...

... course taken the Ministry, as indicated by the meeting on Tuesday. It was true that a few rabid old Tories, a few aristocratic Whigs, and renegade Liberals—(cheers)— had conspired against tbe Government,but should they succeed placing any impediment the way ...

... of the new Administration, and that Lord Stanhope will probably accept office, whikt it hoped some of the more Conservative Whigs will join Lord Derby. The Standard strengthens this hope by Btating tbat his Lordship bas received assurances of support from ...