... humanity, that the task of settling it satisfactorily passes, as an inheritance, from Government to Government, and Tories, Whigs, and Liberals alike, men, must honestly face the duty. 1 very commonly happens, the need of ' urgent measures is established ...

... gates; I but this condemnation is no exculpation of the crafty Whig from his declaration that the people had no right to make a peaceful de- monstration in their own park. Still the Whigs are not to blame for the past riotous week in London, as the Tories ...

... amicable suit between Mr. Beales and the Home Secretary will determine the question only as to a portion of tbe parks. As an old Whig I venture to think the conduct of Lord Melbourne in Downing-street in 1834 towards the presenters of the monster petition will ...

... oofinerned. The Whigs, for eome reason or other which it is not easy to understand, have never been o liberal to those who make literature in its various forme the* netting as have been the Tories. Of this, Ike- appisition which the old Whig Government made ...

... foreign affairs, he declared for the modern doctrine of non-intervention, which used to be so severely reprobated alike by Whigs and Tories when advocated by Mr. CODDRN. We need go to war only when our own interests or honour should be in jeopardy. At ...

... Mackenzie, Playfair, Leslie. Brougham, Brown, Campbell, Hamilton, Wilson, and, above all, of Sir Walter Scott. In 1802 a few able Whig lawyers and a witty Englishman started the Edinburgh Review ; and Jeffrey's house, now made historical by that event, may still ...

... Abolitionists will be inn much stronger position next Session, in consequence of what has occurred this. There are anti-Reform Whigs who will resent a resort to unworthy manceuvres for defeating any feasible adjustment of a question which has become wearisome ...

... proof that the head of the Conservatives is becoming more of a political amateur than a statesmen. Did he imagine that the Whigs contemplated their dissolution as a Party ? Did he think that Lord Clarendon, having been expelled from office in character ...

... 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 ...

... it known to the new government that they shall have his fair support ; and this tone is taken generally and frankly by the whig statesmen to whom Lord Derby has applied. The woolsack will again be occupied by Lord Chelmsford, while the posts of Attorney ...

... them. THE COBDEN CLIJB. IF we have a Fox Club, why not one also in honour ° I one who, if not occupying the place of the great Whig debater and leader, yet has rendered far greater services the world? The Cobden Club has been happily inaugurate by a dinner ...

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