... it a witty remark to observe that the reall the Church was to be detected notso muc Y Serious danger to the bishops by the Whigs as in the dese h in the desertion of ttion of their wigs by the bishops. Within 30 years a wig-w earing prelate became ararity ...

... Russell has succeeded. But must strike any one who knows what our political history has been during the last fifty years that the Whig party, thoroughly worn out, is rapidly disappearing. Not but that it is perfectly right to elect subalterns from among the ...

... hold a demonstration Several able asense of the importance early and Press ENTertarsuent.—On Saturday evening, of the Northern Whig, was entertained at supper in the Clarendon Hotel the various by the members of the Belfast in town, and a number The was served ...

... stated that Mr. ined of in the Northern the articles Whig and Morning News. Isn't it a matter of no- that he has no control over them ? Mr. Rea—Mr. Kisbey first came down to write leaders in the Northern Whig. (Loud laughter.) Mr. Kisbey—I think you(ll let ...

... by the Lord Chancellor ; for besides the insipidity and schoolboy-like composition customary in Queen's Speeches for which a Whig Ministry is responsible, that of last Tuesday is characterized by its unusual length, and by the more than ordinary oddness ...

... and the appointment Mr. Stansfeld the India Office, are events of considerable importance. In a Liberal Ministry the great Whig families claim a certain number of seats; and to one of those seats Lord Hartington has pretensions that cannet be denied. ...

... NEW. The Parliament which lasted fom 1859 to 1865 was based and found on a great act of duplicity and tergiversation. The Whigs came in, as it turned out, on false pretences: the Willis's Rooms Cornpact—a compact, apparently, only made to be broken—will ...

... in order to neutralise the ex. Ulnae Liberalism of Mr. looter and Mr. :stansfeld, Mr. John Bright, now that he has become a Whig, ought also to have a place in the government. ...

... assur- ance and authority of a youthful Whig, born and bred to the pleasures of office and place as the sparks fly upwards. Lord llartington was picked out by Lord Palmerston as a youth after the gallaut old Whig's own heart ; and it is curious to note ...

... Lord Melbourne put him in the wrong place. Lord Russell and Lord Brougham will henceforth stand almost alone among the old Whigs who were forty or more when the Reform Bill passed. Lord Lansdowne, Lord Ripon, Sir James Graham, Mr. Ellice, and Lord Palmerston ...

... large Liberal majority, but can the Government count on its support? Will dread of Mr. BRIGHT shake the allegiance of old Whigs, and will the support of Mr. BRIGHT compensate for their possible desertion at a critical moment? Can the Liberal Party be ...

... party to the Whigs. For this latter purpose he ceased not, week after week, in his own forcible and vigorous style, to inculcate upon Irish constituencies, in every case of a contested election, to vote for a Tory in preference to a Whig, and he reduced ...