... majority. Some more defections of the the representatives “great Whig Houses” are reported. This is not unlikely, as Reform *ss certain to break up the great party known as ** Palmerston Whigs.*' Although the Government measure may survive the attempted sushi ...

... govern on sufferance till Mr Gladstone has once more recemented the alliance now crumbling to piecca between the nation and the Whigs, an alliance without which—and we say it with no pleasure—a Liberal Administration is in this country never stable or strong ...

... success was felt, although the popular euthusmwo in its favour was not very deiuoustrative. Lord Duukelliu, the representative a Whig house, intimated his separating from kit party, and voting for the aiueu'lrceufc. He thought the franchise was now within reach ...

... took the part of Adam Black at last election—than whom there is not a purer breed betwees a full blood Tory act a retrograde Whig. It in beginning to show symptoms of change, however, aiuoe Gladstone& Liverpool speech, which it elutestensed as his best ...

... scheme is before the House. Stich a motion as this coming from such a quarter, and approved of, it is said, by a number of Whig noblemen in the House of Lords—including among them the Duke of Sutherland and the Earl of Zuthuid—is no doubt highly plausible ...

... three times has been returned for the Wick Burghs, and each time got in in the character of a Radical, distingnUhed from a Whig, and the displacement such sincere, though for him tcs» moderate Liberals, Mr James Loch, Lord John Hay, and Lord Bury. His ...

... election to take place to morrow, Mr Moucrieff Would be restored to his old place at the head the poll. The party known the old Whigs were conapicuoiis by their By this line con.luct they are I«>Biug great opjiortttiuty. Hart they only tense enough come forwanl ...