... compliance with his own view of the necessities of his position, he proposed to offer high office to several members of the Whig party, and even to certain members of Lord Russell’s Government, He should, theretore, have to ask from his own supporters ...

... Commons. In fact it is the old Tory Cabinet of 1859, with a alight change of places. There is to be no coskii4ion with the Whigs, no adhesions from the Cave of Adallam, no infusion of new blood by the admission of the representatives of young Conservatism ...

... becoming more and more conservative in their opinions; and though those statesmen and men of mark who have hitherto acted with the Whig party, and have now refused to be dragged through the dirt by Mr. Gladstone, have declined for obvious reasons to join Lord ...

... his friends. Yy It must not be forgotten, as we have before poiated out, that it was the meddling and muddling of 50 veteran Whig Chief which contribated maioly the late rupture between Ga-mt:g and Denmark- If he had remained quiet, or interfered consistenty ...

... process of re-election. It is understood that Lord Derby will be Premier, and that be is trying to induce the more Conservative Whigs to coalesce with his followers —an effort hitherto attendal with very little success. Until it has succeeded or failed nothing ...

... it ; he coveted political power, and it has suddenly left him—rejected by the Con- servatives of Oxford he went over to the Whig Radicals of South Lancashire, with what success can best be estimated by his expulsion from office. There is an avenging justice ...

... binding on the successor of the man who gave it. Some of your readers will remember tbe long and obstinate refusal of tbe old Whig Government abate any one of the hard restrictions placed on the access of our historical students to the State Paper Office; ...

... impressed upon his followers the duty of self-abnegation— the policy of enlisting the co-operation of the constitutional Whigs, and to have obtained their acquiescence. Since then overtures have been made to the Duke of Somerset, Lord Clarendon, the ...

... declined office on the plea of ill-health. He will give the Government a fair support. This tone was taken generally by the Whig statesmen to whom Lord Derby applied. Sir Bulwer Lytton and Sir John Pakington will be raised to the peerage. The Star aaya ...

... lias made it to the new Government that they shall have his fair suppoit ; 1 this tone is t >keu generally and frankly the Whig statesmen to whom Lord has applied. ...

... and asserting that it will be quite impossible for him to remain in power. But they seem to forget that though the moderate Whigs have not accepted places, they will probably give their support to Lord Derby’s Government in any time of trial. It is apparently ...

... for the re-election of such members of the new Government as occupy seats in the House of Commons. Failing to seduce either Whigs or Adullamites from their'party allegiance, Lord Derby has had to content himself with a few old stagers intermingled with ...