... assault was made upon it, Earl Nelson leading the van. And at it they went; the Tory peers standing up for the people, and the Whigs, as their manner is, defending utilitarianism by speech and vote, until Victoria Park was Bayed by a majority of one Conservative ...

... sympathisers, who fete Head-Centre Roberts, in the delightful hope of planting a thorn in the side of the mucheaduring John Bull. A Whig-Tory coalition Ministry has failed to become a fact, although those advanced philosophers who affect to believe that there ...

... the former must speedily announce its policy, and by it stand or fall, whereas a mixed Government of Tories and disaffected Whigs can have no policy, and no principle is asserted either by its life or death. The probabilities are that the Derby Government ...

... made ii known to the new Government that they shall have his {gif support; and this tone is taken generally and frankly the Whig etatesraen to whom Lord Derby baa applied. The new Premier, if we are not misinformed, in quencc of the refusals he has received ...

... party ves have to be broken up and new ones formed — when resistance to a common danger renders necessary the junction of Whigs with Conservatives—they are unwilling to allow the slightest suspicion to be cast upon the purity of their motives, and refuse ...

... by ay of counterbalancing the wholesale, and we will even say, unscrupulous promotion adventured upon in that way by the Whigs during their long tenure of office, but more particularly of late years. These two new Peers who are at once to be summoned ...

... our suspeeene with the comforting assurance that the unenfranclieed classes never combine—that there are as many Tories as Whigs among them. All Britain has been, is, one vast trades union. Its delegates have stirred up the country mechanics, tho peasantry ...

... the Castle and the Phenix Park. It was by the display of some of these attributes that some of his predecessors—Tories and Whigs—won the esteem of the people of Ireland ; and there is no insuperable bar to Lord Abereorn's success in the same career, if ...

... ves and received .office from Lord Dekbv the traditions of a time when the Liberal party was reality, and when Torve* and Whigs were really separated by distinct opis. ions and principles, would have afforded to vulgar aod unscrupulous men, in the press ...

... eminent man, who died on the 16th of June, at the age of 81, was Colonel William Winston Seaton, of Washington, a prominent Whig, and always antagonistic to General Cass. Colonel Seaton belonged to the famous firm of Gates and Beaton, who established the ...

... in his anxiety to construct the Cabinet upon the broadest possible basis, endeavoured to obtain the co-operation of certain Whigs and independent Liberals, whose views are much more in accordance with those of the Conservatives than with the policy which ...

... State at the present time. Shall we further say that the suspense of more than a week, and the unsuccessful overtures to the Whig party, are evidences of weakness and paucity of numbers in Lord Derby's following ? Somehow, men do not off-hand and at once ...