... grace of Bright, may even yet relinquish his task, abdicating in favour either his son, or of some steady-going, easy-mannered Whig Peer, who will be fed up into Palmerston after the fashion common among bees. —Spectator. Advantage of Crooked Legs.—The Madimn ...

... present Ministerial crisis is one of no ordinary importance. What we witness just now is not merely change of Government from Whig Tory, brought about in the old-fashioned manner, on a principle not dissimilar from that by which the rotation of crops regulated ...

... to join it openly, and to quit like men the party they have betrayed. The Daily Telegraph says that the negotiations with Whigs and Adullamites have alike failed, and the new Cabinet will probable the Cabinet of 1859, plus Lord Cranbourne. Mr Lowe would ...

... Lansdowne declined office on the plea of health. He will give the Government fair support. This tone was generally adopted the Whig statesmen to whom Lord Derby applied. Sir Buhver Lytton and Sir John Pakington will be raised to the Peerage. The Star says ...

... THE EARLS QUEST. There was Earl o* aneient blood, the antique temper too ; Chiei erf the rare old Tories, He tried the Whigs woo: And the name of the Earl was Stanley, With Smith prefixed thereto. He tried the gentle Granville, Who all men think so nice ...

... middle and lower classes. In the same way there was very little distinction between a Liberal Conservative and a Liberal, a Whig and a moderate Liberal, a Liberal and an advanced Liberal, an advanced Liberal and Raidical, although there was a clearly defined ...

... disappointment, if not humiliation. The Conservatives cannot pass a satisfactory Reform Bill. They do not, any more than many Whigs, believe in the importance the object for which such a bill is most urgently, although not solely called for, the admission ...

... First Consul, and when Mr Fox went to Paris, Napoleon informed him of the proposed international junction. The illustrious Whig conversed earnestly with Buonaparte on the subject, and the latter, struck with the broad views of his guest, exclaimed Ah ...

... men that were m it were with him before, And he vainly attempted to jockey some more. Thought I to myself, here's lesson for Whigs No longer with Bright to be running their rigs. For thanks to his doings, thus open the door To the rule of reaction and reign ...

... than he ought, though there was no cause. The Magistrate could not assist the applicant. Orange-Day in Ireland.- The Northern Whig says:—We are glad to be able to state that the principal July anniversary has passed over without any breach of the peace ...

... we presume, of the Ultramontane party, which ha 3 latterly discovered that its interests are safer in the keeping of the Whigs than of the Tories, and, speciiliy, to procure the Irish vote for the Reform Mill, It was this charge, we suppose, which Gladstone ...