... taken off her neck,” said Dr Johnson of Mrs Thrale; and the saying may be applied to Palmerston's successors. When will the Whigs ever find such leader again? Meanwhile, the task which the Earl of Derby bos undertaken is no light one; nor is any- body yet ...

... Russell on the day after he had driven Sir Robert Peel from power, invited four of the ex-Premier’s lieutenants to take seats the Whig Cabinet; Lord Palmerston invited Lord Stanley to accept Secretaryship of State in his second Administration. and prevailed ...

... Nothing definite, webel.ere t known of Lord Derby’e arrangements. It however, that the negotiations going on few of the mild Whigs and with the Adollamites have broken down. Mr Lowe had a lone interview with Mr Dterael., but nothing aeeme to have come of ...

... lately so closely united, were for : bitter politwal ..Ann. tagonists. But the process which united Lord Russell and other Whigs to Mr Gladstone and other Peebles was not com- pleted in few cUya, the period which Eome foolieh people think sufficient in ...

... political not unlikely to produce results alike profitabte and EUiSbUSiSS .IIMOO of Whig and Tory have been . , is the abolition of civil disabilities •'“I *?* the mission the Whigs was closed. With the close of Its mission the distinctive name of the party virtually ...

... declined office on the plea of health. H-e will give the Government a fair support; this tone was generally the same by the Whig statesmen to whom Lord Derby applied. The same paper says—Sir Bulwer Lytton and Sir John Pakiogton will raised to tho peerage ...

... believe, is vet known of Lord Derby’s arrangements. It seems, however, that the negotiations going on with a few of the mild Whigs and with the Adollamitee have broken down. Mr Lowe had long interview with Mr Disraeli, bat nothing seems to have come of it ...

... was taken off her neck,” said Dr Johnson of Mrs Thrale; and the saying may applied to Palmerston's successors. hen will the Whigs ever find such leader again '■ Meanwhile, the task which the Earl of Derby has undertaken is no light one; nor is anybody vet ...

... wittily and memorably remarked, Sir Robert Peel and bis colleagues found the Whigs bathing and stole their clothes. Year after year, as the assimilation became more complete, it was Whig votes that Sir Robert Peel c irried many of his chief measures against ...

... although it may contain no Whig or Adullamite elements. If, to use the language of theatrical critics, compare the “caste of the new Ministry with that of the old, the superiority of the Conservative Administration to the Whig-Peelite-Radical one which ...

... when old party ties have to broken np and new ones formed —when resistance to common danger renders necessary the Junction Whigs with Conservatives—they are unwilling to allow the slightest suspicion to cast upon the purity of their motives, and refuse ...

... constituents, not to spesk of his own rery extensive connections. That washed-out personage, Mr Villiers, vapid and servile Whig-Radical, for whom the influence of ; his brother, Lord Clarendon, ought long ago have procured a retiring pension, will be ...