... leader of the Whigs the Commons. We have, these columns, frequently said of late, that the matter of Liberal support to a measure of Reform, put forward by a Conservative Government, it was not to Mr Gladstone and the officeseeking Whigs we should look ...

... settled. Loid Russell's querulous review of the bill of '32 has not enlarged the public sympathy with the Whig notions on presumably strict Whig topic. ...

... the people, and proved what he (Mr Beales) had often said, that the people had more to fear from the false and aristocratic Whigs than from the Tories. The Radicals in attendance at. the meeting endorsed these views and passed the subjoined resolution : ...

... business men acting as the Whigs have acted, the trade the country would come to a standstill. The responsibility of political battle rests with the Whigs. Should tho Government lose, that does not merely imply that the Whigs are to quietly resume office ...

... TELEGRAPHIC MEMORANDA. Newspaper Libel.—At the Tyrone Assizes, yesterday, in the case Piatt v. 7he Northern Whig, verdict was recorded for the plaintiff, with £100 damages. ...

... any bill they may agree to, while the Whigs are in minority the Upper House. There are numerous other considerations —especially the fact that the bill of the Derby Government ia the most comprehensive since the Whig-Radical movement began. This fact is ...

... permanency of settlement; but still the bill is more than the country requires—in other words, tbe agitating capital which the Whigs make of Reform is not to be parted with at tremendous sacrifice, like the stock-in-trade of a bankrupt draper. At the same ...

... is the prelude of dissolution. The reverse, indeed, is tbe genoral experience, although it has happened, in the caso of tbe Whigs—notably during Crimean War —that tbe members of tbe reconstructed Cabinet were saved by the patriotism tbe ever-abused Tories ...

... GOSSIP ABOUT THE MINISTRY AND REFORM. The ■ Whig Observer says, we have it on authority, which leaves no room for doubt, that the Earl of Carnarvon, Lord Cranbourne, and General Peel have resigned office consequence of disagreements with their colleagues ...

... Not so with their opponents. Whigs and Radicals alike have viewed Reform only from party aspect; and have considered, in their schemes of Reform, only what would advance the interests of them party. The design of the Whig Reform Bill of last year was ...

... with remarkable ferocity, the reported Government scheme Reform, evidently determined that, so far as their intiueiice goes, a Whig Government shall alone pass a measure Reform. They say that by the fancy franchises, what given with one hand is taken away ...

... banners Reform, Whiggism, or Toryism, was strong enough to carry through the House satisfactory measure of Reform. The Whigs were weak enough to be pitied. The great Liberal party was nothing without the aid of the Conservatives on the one side, and ...