... Sir William Hayter never was ardent reformer; and his letter, which was read to the House by his sod, while it came upon the Whigs like a shell thrown into the camp, carried all the mere weight, and proved all the more disastrous, as it expressed opinions ...

... REFORM PROSPECTS FROM A WUIO POINT OF VIEW. The acute and well-informed London correspondent of the Munchf it ter Guardian (Whig), writing on Thursday evening, says Government is drifting on lee shore, and ontesa there be speedy change of wind and timely ...

... of the Adullamites are supposed to have returned to their party allegiance ; but at the same time it is admitted that many Whig representatives of the grouped boroughs will vote against the Government. Austria, Prussia, and Italy have intimated their ...

... no Tories. It is considered even possible that an alliance will be struck up between the Tories and the more Conservative Whigs, that Captain Hayter’s motion will be carried, and that Government will then resign without a dissolution, which in the present ...

... talents we, of course, knew—was so very able a man? Nobody, I answer, so long Lowe was content to be a Whig subordinate, and to be kept down as the Whigs keep down all clever middle class men—Layards, Osbornes, or what not. Ue is frqe now, and he proves ...

... efficiency the British Post Office, and to be grateful that the nation forced a trial of Howland Hill's system on the reluctant Whigs. The success, once more a pecuniary one, of the Post Office has proved that there are things partaking of an industrial ...

... agitators. All the raoanoies in the Qorernment were giren to the disciples of the non. member for Birmingham, and the old Whigs were snubbed. Oorernment had sold themsslres, hand and foot, to their imperious taskmaster, who, unlike his aoeomplioes, had ...

... have called the bill without a friend —too moderate for the Radicals, too extreme for the Conservatives and the unofficial Whigs. Should the Ministers muster up courage enough to go on with their doomed bills, they will have against them in a division ...

... Temples, though in his branch of the family Tories for sixty years and more, bad all originally been Whigs. Mr Gladstone could advance no such claims upon Whig acceptance as these. The son of a successful merchant who began life in a shipbuilding house at ...

... have called’ the bill without a friend'' —too moderate for the Radicals, too extreme for the Conservatives and the unofficial Whigs. Should the Ministers muster up courage enough to go on with their doomed bills, they will have against them in division Lord ...

... people have failed to discover any other ground for his promotion in the Church, except his usefulness as a supporter of the Whig Government. Be this as it may, the fact notorious, and was, I think, slated by Mr Gumming in the Edinburgh Presbjtery, that ...

... feel the pulses of the Westminsters, the Lansdownes, the Fits williams, and such like, would have discovered that neither the Whig governing houses, nor the middle classes, nor the best of the working men of England and Scotland, have any love at all of ...