... fundamentally-may be regarded as a certainty. The elimination of these two peculiarly Whig members of the Cabinet will go far to dissolve the allegiance of the Whig party to the remaining portion, and to bring out the incoherence of the existing combination ...

... es, may think and speak with a certain degree of freedom, but for sincere Reformers to imitate such independence, for old Whigs and philosophical Radicals who have proved their earnestness and sincerity in many a hard- fought field to dare to have an ...

... co-operation of many at least of that special section of the Whig party of which the House of Westminster may be regarded as the type. The GROSVENORS are Whigs par exceleiece,' not, indeed, Whigs of any advanced opinions, but still of pure descent, of strict ...

... sort of undefined feeling, part mistrust, part Perplexity, part mere want of cordiality, with which he is regarded by the Whigs per sang. Few imagine that he and the Duke of SOmIERSET, for example, agree very closely in their ideas as to retrenchment ...

... yet the forms and principles of constitutional government are scrupulously adhered to both by victors and vanquished, that Whig, Tory, and Radical alike must join in admiration of a struggle which has shown so conclusively the power of a thorough con ...

... IRELAND. The Times holds that the view of Irish affairs taken by Lord Grey is essentially the old-fashioned viewv, the orthodox Whig view in the days of Lord Melbourne and Lord Normanby, of Lord Carlisle and the late Lord Bessborough. Lord Grey looks at the ...

... instead of awaiting the debate in their own House; and in the second, that the Ministry cannot rely on the unbroken aid of the Whig families who carried the bill of i832, and who still lead so considerable a section of the House. It is all very well to taunt ...

... GROSVENOR. The TeZegraph observes with sincere and unfeigned regret the repre- sentative of one of the noblest and wealthiest Whig families in England coming forward to sully his spotless name and unstained character by association with interested disaffection ...

... What in the world is it to be? A large bill cannot be carried, and a little one will be laughed at. First, there are the great Whig houses to be considered. The oligarchical traditions of the party are almost more than Venetian in their strictness, and it ...

... Mr. Bouverie, and Lord Elcho would constitute a poor backbone for any such framework. An alliance between the more moderate Whigs and the malcontents, on the basis of No Reform, would be a chimerical adven- ture. From any such combination the more advanced ...