... of Conmmons. Lord Elcho has succeeded in detaching his brother Colonel of Volunteers, Earl Grosvenos, from the Ministerial Whigs, and no small consternation was caused upon the Treasury benches by the announcement on Tuesday, that the heir to the marquisate ...

... Liberal- Conservative Lord STANLEY and the Whig Lord GROSVENOR are willing enough to shed the light of their countenances upon them. Directly the people ask leave to govern themselves, Con- servative and Whig unite to defend the threat- ened privilege ...

... He has first to feel his way how far be can go in making a Whig Government uneasy, and undermining them in the affection and confidence of the people, without offending the power- ful Whig Lord by whose favour he sits for Calne. When he has alienated ...

... apathy. Sir J. Pakington's Great Constitutional Party is organizing, and it means mischief: Tories, Conservatives, and Whigs, with all the hybrid varieties between, including the latest novelty, the nondescript, unclassified, nebulous Scqtch. Terrier ...

... biographer and ad- mirer of Charles James Fox, and the natural leader of the great Whig party, naturally shrinks from a course which may drive an influential section of the Whigs into coalition with the party of Lord Derby. They have, in truth, however, more ...

... Nor must it be forgotten that a short period out of office is an alternative and a tonic. In the bracing air of Opposition Whigs grow strong, and achieve an audacity which they lose when long debauched by the sweets of place. With nothing to do but to ...

... reproach that I was a plecenlan of the Government. Gentlemen, I may say, in passing, that I never expected, as long as the Whig GovernulentBwas in power, to be reproached as a place- man under the Government. H~owever much I regret not being present at ...

... probably become an impracticable chief. Again, at tue vof SleM story-at i a h going Whig; and, barring Lord RUSSELL, we doubt if the country would consent to be ruled over by a Whig. If the Liberals remain in office, the next Premier must be a Liberal il reality ...

... followed. There was no other business of interest before the House. In the Commons, Earl GROSvr-oR, a member of one of the great Whig famifes, returned for Chester as a supporter of Lord PALiERizSTON, gave notice that on the second reading of the Reform lie ...

... his Lordship's own idea, but came of consultation with some eminent persons with whom that estimable, if not highly effective Whig nobleman, has not been accustomed to act, and is designed to confirm and draw closer that rapp)roche-nicsd in which it had ...

... on earth gn, will get him out of it, until he chooses. He ado belongs to the very bluest of the blue blood of the pul abe Whigs ; and even a RuSSIIL hastens to recognise lan the almost sacredness of s COAVNzDISI. disc The amount of our military expenditure ...

... not the least affective. He then 'passed to an admirably reasoned zlefence of the Government measure, and quoted the great Whig, Lord Somers, as an authority in favour of a much more popular' /and enfran- 2hising measure than that before the House. I ...