... stood Lord Derby is desirous of forming with the Lansdowne section of the Whigs. In 1827 Mr. Can- ning, then the Conservative Premier, appealed to the moderate men of the Whig party for support. The appeal was answered by Lord Lansddwne, father of the ...

... to be, and the Government with it. For Lord Gros- venor represents a strong body of moderate men, who, though they be Whigs, are Whigs of the old school, and prefer their country and its great in- stitutions to any party triumph. But granting it to reach ...

... ito Lord I).RBY than they are to IMr. BiaoGriT And that the saeie 3 may be said of Lord RUoYENvOR and some of f the leading Whigs who voted in the majority that defeated the lato Go.vernment cannot either be doubted. So that ifihumilia- i tion at all there ...

... 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, ...

... ability ,and debating force it is in no respect inferior to that which it supersedes. Lord DERBY'S overtures to the leading Whig mem- bers of the late ministry and to those who by their secession overthrew the RUSSELI. govern- ment, have not been responded ...

... 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 ...

... of a change of the English Government from Whig to Tory upon the foreign policy of this country, and he always and very decideyly answered that its effect would be nil ; adding, that whether under a Whig or under a Tory Government, England dared ...

... elpeatitation now. They are not likely to the error which all honest Orals heave regretted ever since. The the rghat of the Whigs to misgovern todn is not a popular doctrine, and a t Reform Bill fiom the Conservatives will Lt ac'epted by Parliament and ...

... 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 ...

... majority sup- posed to be against them is one in name only. At the last election all Liberal-Con- servatives and moderate Whigs M ere counted as Ministerialists: and rightly so, while Lord PALMERSTON Was prime minister. But it was notorious, at the time ...