... oppoherts; although the Conservative party is numerically the strongest single party in tha House of Commons, it is confronted by Whigs, quondam Conservatives, and Radicals of various hues, who, in combination, form a considerable majority over it, and who could ...

... the Whigs! who down upon all others with a kind of patronisl gtoleiance aud forbearance, and who become € *cessively impatient and ill-conditioned as soon they see those others performing their several Parts too well. A scribe of the genuine Whig School ...

... Lansdowne declined office on the plea of 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 says ...

... The Irish Church, however, requires something more in her bishops at this crisis than a preacher; and as both the deans are Whig appointments, it is rather too much for their friends to expect that they should now be selected. We learn, therefore, with ...

... Justice Appeal. The right hon. and learned gentlemen is in the eighty-fourth year of his age, and was Attorney-General in the Whig administrations of Lords Grey and Melbourne. Mr. Whiteside now consents to take the place of the nonagerian Chief Justice Lefroy ...

... never conceived by the coneeited and pragmatical of Whig hangers-on. td said nothing less than the entire when he stated the other day at Lynn that Grosvenor and a considerable number of “ther moderate Whigs mean to give the new ad- Ministration an independent ...

... sacrifice of principle. Of late years, whilst the distinction of party has remained, the distinction of principle between Whigs and Tories has been worn down to so fine point to be almost undistinguishable. fact Lord trimself constantly accused by Mr ...

... establisheV the fame of its author parliamentary orator. Pitt Ucd within the year; with his death his party was up, and the Whigs, uuder Fox and Grenville, came into office. 'In this ministry, which familiarly known that of all the talents, Lard Henry ...

... now jetted, the seals of offi^ ferred, and those who are the minhurgh are preparing for re-election defllll ct says : active Whig Government has paduring the past week f e ™ .Y« han ds. tronale that was out the^ we 7 than They have made within forty ap ...

... a race in which England must win, and he would venture to say that no ministry that came into office in this country— they Whig or Tory, Radical or Conser- vative, or by W hatever other denomination they might be known, dare permit the naval power and ...

... Ministry prevented the accomplishment of that object. We are glad, however, to hear from Lord Stanley that there are many of the Whig party whose sympathies are well known to be with the new Government, whose support in debates and divisions there is no doubt ...

... he had been present he should have told the meeting- and the telling of it would have done him good-that the Tories and the Whigs were equally rasoals-not a pin to choose between them, and that there were not 50 men in the present House of Commons who were ...