... efforts made to persuade them that Lord Derby not only intends them no good, but would not allow good to done them by the Whigs. How can country go on peacefully while the population are unwise enough to put their faith in incendiaries who would sink ...

... Ministry there will be dissolution. This contingency is not, however, expected. It isunderstood that several of the moderate Whigs have agreed to act with Lord Derby. The Queen will return to London early next week in consequence the Ministerial changes ...

... they ventured to tliiuk for themselves, and that one of them dared to say some truthful but uncomplimentary things of the Whigs, tho Post turned on them, and wrote of them iu terms which cannot bo acceptable to their friends. What kind of scheming” Mr ...

... introduction of any Reform BiU whatsoever, and mamtain that the party can always either reject a Reform Bill proposed by the Whigs, or else modify ft so that it will really become a Conservative measure, whereas there is danger of injurious Liberal modifications ...

... escape. Earl Russell has been trying to strengthen himself alliances which would tend rather to strangle than to help him. The Whigs are not powerful enough to keep him in, but some of the older and more influential families arc said to have threatened a ...

... been forewarned; but with that sense of danger pressing on them, what less could they have done ? It is an old resource of Whig Governments that threat of resignation, and if Earl Russeli. chose to try it on an occasion which it was not justified, were ...

... feeling than one of shame, have this good result, it will have proved serviceable to the cause of freedom, and the iitacquired Whig triumph turned into an actual gain to the country. We arc hopeful that inactivity and want of vigilance will be banished, and ...

... from Sharman Crawford’s Bill, Col. Napier’s; Cardwell's Permissive Bill, and the late abortive amendment proposed by the late Whig Government; but all have fallen short of the true measure, (or which the North of Ireland aflords a precedent in its custom ...

... legislation proposed by tile Whigs, and a meaaure has been proposed by prominent supporter of Lord Derby, whose name was suggested for the Chief Secretaryship of Ireland, which goes much farther than the scheme brought forward by the Whigs last year. That scheme ...

... and crying wrongs, which, unhapply, however, was uol the away W redress, because it could not be the successful way. If the Whigs like this, J u only say they are grateful for mercies,” and jt was all they could get. Little it was, served the purpose of ...

... Government must atltn [ with the question somehow. And we dare say they’ll settle it. They • quite as likely to do so as the Whigs, ami they « attempt it the more readily if neither side of ' House be hampered by that senseless asiw'''' so indispensable ...

... think the effect would be good. The experiment has been tried before. When Phcenixites werfi convicted by Tory prosecutors the Whigs were in a hurry to discharge them. They hoped much from it, not for the country but for themselves, and the unseemliness of ...