... consisted in the personnel of his colleagues—that is to say, in the difficulty which he found in inducing eligible persons in the Whig ranks to share the responsibility of the line of policy which he was inclined to adopt. The first move, that of transferring ...

... entirely without a controlling hand to guide them. are evidently so much at loss what lino to toke and how to take it. The Whigs are falling off from them; the Peelites are used up; Mr. Cardwell and the Attorney- General are all that remain of that clever ...

... some of the representatives the Whig governing families, and that their reativoneas has been the means furnishing the leading journal with the materials for its catwtrd. Who can be sure that some artful plotter in the Whig party did not put up our contemporary ...

... ministers would collect them for their own information. Then why allude to them all ? Is it such an uncommon event the annals of Whig administrations that the cabinet should endeavour to learn something of the subject on which they are going to legislate that ...

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

... been abundantly manifest before, that for thoroughgoing obatructiveness no one can compare with a Radical Reformer in office. Whigs who have grown old in thej service of their country we expect to be slow to change. But not Sir George Grey himself can equal ...

... With petitions from men who, if their prayer Were unheard, were prepared to extort compliance with the sword and the musket. Whig Statesmen talked of civil war, and invited the historian of the Peninsular campaign to place himself at the head of a revolutionary ...

... carrying. The Conservatives have no more lose by the improvement of small constituencies than the Whigs have; and all that they can reasonably ask is that Whig Ministry shall not so arrange the grouping of towns as to favour their own party unfairly. It is ...

... edition was published. They were unwelcome for anotiier reason —they furnished a strong justification to the less advanced Whig members of the Cabinet, who did not with favour the introduction of a Reform Bill of any kind at this time. Why have you not ...

... pension of £100 year should be paid to Mrs. and Miss Montgomery for their lives, and with continuance to the survive.-- Northern Whig. The death is announced of the Rev. William Moore, D.D., prebendary of Lincoln, vicar of Spalding and of Moulton, near Spalding ...

... twenty thirty seats to the Hoase of Commons will nor, be out proportion. Tho owners of boroughs (who are principally the great Whig representative houses) will, events, very ready to maintain this argument. Others of tbe same party will contend, and with ...

... silence of nearly 20 sessions, and delivered a neat little address. In passing, it may be observod that he represents a great Whig family—of which his father, the Marquis of Westminster, is the head—and therefore has right to take things easy in Parliament ...