... THE OLD WHIGS AND EARL RUSSELL. Suppose that all the old Whigs—aud Ido not speak of them without respect, because in past times the country has had great service from many of them —but suppose the old Whigs were quietly deposited, with all symbols of ...

... it or not, a slow hot constant change is going all political parties. The Radicals of one generation are the Whigs of the next, and the Whigs in turn, in the course of another generation become Conservative. What was respectable Wh-ggery in the days of ...

... to pass that the leader of Government, ostensibly relying on the combined support of Whigs and Radicals, really held his position by a tacit understanding between Whigs and Tories, to which many of his nominal supporters>very reluctantly submitted. This ...

... 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 ...

... pass tht the leader of a Govern- ment, ostensibly relying on the combined support of Whigs and Radicals, reilly held his position by~ a tacit understanding between Whigs and Tories, to which many of his nominal supporters very reluctantly sub- saitted. ...

... designations of Whig and Tory came into use. The Tories were those who, siding with any estab- lished order of things, for the sake of what it yielded, stood out successively for Popery in religion and tyranny in rule, while the Whigs were the champions ...

... Lord trying to ally himself with the Whig families. It is quite possible that he°mav succeed in obtaining their support, if not that formal alliance. Cut this will open a new The union of the Tories and. the old Whigs than apolitical alliance. It is, in ...

... with giving any advice that was likely to be followed ; and there are the pure Whigs, who dotingly believe that England can never prosper out of the tutelage of great Whig families. But either of these is not a very formidable party, nor, in any very ...

... their families. Nor is this the case alone in the smaller boroughs. Will anyone pretend that the tenants of a Whig landlord usually vote Whig, and the tenants of a Tory landlord Tory, from mere con. viction, and that they would not often like to vote on ...

... divisible into only two factions, the Whigs and the Tories, the preponderance of either party suffierdto raise it office. There were always, of course, some who were nearer the Tories, and some Toric who were nearer to the Whigs, than the great bulk of their ...

... 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 ...