... been able to draw up even the sketch of a Cabinet based upon anything more solid than hypotheses. The reports that the great Whigs who were supposed to have sympathies with Adullam, or at least no sympathy with Mr. Gladstone, have refused to join a Derby ...

... extensive, if not a fundamental, re-con- stitution of the Government. The elimination of two such pure Whigs would dissolve the allegiance of the Whig party to the remaining portion of the Cabinet. The probability is that a succession of weak Governments ...

... said that with a very slight exception the Whigs had ruled us for twice seven years and a bttle more. But to rule and to govern iin polities meant two very different things. He had yet to learn that the Whigs had ever governed us. They never had, and, ...

... Government of which he had been a supporter had departed from the rule of Whig Govern- ments in past times, and instead of taking entirely the advice of a certain portion of the Whig powers, had taken the advice of that section of the House of Commons amongst ...

... weak and non-reforming Liberal Government, or rather Whig Government, for that is what it would be, whether the chief were the Duke of Somerset, Lord GIranville, or smother. Besides, what* could a Whig Government do without Mr. Gladstone and Lord. Russellp ...

... been wound up or are undergoing that process. ?? Dnintersitx fa eperthantoef T then RePRACth. -Rye are far from blaming the Whigs for the importance §they have attached to the social intimacy between the re- l public of letters and the party chiefs of a ...

... influence, But then it is said we may hare a coalition of the Conser- vative party with the moderate Whigs. What the exact definition of a *moderate Whig may be does not exactly appear, hut it should seem to mean a set of gentlemen who are prepared to betray ...

... of liberal opinions, but of a timid sort-not always Whigs, who hold together pretty closely as a party -but Liberals who share the Whig cast of opinion without the party feelings by which the Whigs are actuated. They are what have been called Conserv ...

... fanciful deficiencies, of which the only itemspositively true are his late conversion to Liberalism and his exter- nality to the Whig set, does not immediately suggest much instructive cornment. It appears to express chiefly the intensity of hatred felt for ...

... famous for its devotion to the Whigs, ISw converted into a Tory organ, actually claims for the Tory Government the credit of introducing running drill into the exercise of the army. For thirty years, it is said, the Whigs have had power, and yet they never ...

... chance that there was of a junction between the Conservatives and the deserting Whigs was the formation of a now party on a distinctly anti- reform basis. Had LonD DERBY and his Whig allies been so alarmed at the prospect of reform as to have founded a party ...

... task, there is reason to believe that he experiences greater difficulty than he anticipated. It is understood that the high Whigs, with wheat he has been in communication, do not readily respond to his offers, and unless they accept cffico, the Noble Lord ...