... will require a firmer hand and a more vigorous grasp of the helm to guide the Whig b ark through the breakers than Earl Russell is likely to command. That the old hack Whigs in both Houses will, however, in ake a desperate rush at the Treasury Bench m ...

... doubt is the privi- lege of mankind, many well-informed persons may decline to take so rosy a view of “the situation” as the Whig gossips of the Clubs and whippers-in evidently desire they shou!d do. It is whispered that the most recent advices received ...

... Sir Roundell Palmer, Q.C., the ex-Attorney-General of the Whigs, and “leader” in the Rolls Courts, has declined the office of Lord Justice of Appeal, offered him by the Government, in the room of Sir. J. Rolt, incapacited by illness from resuming his ...

... the way of temptation until he returns to his place on the Treasury Bench. The Reform Club has lost its Chairman, and the old Whig Party a consistent supporter, by the death of Mr. Beamish, late Member for Cork, The deeeased gentle- man represented his native ...

... another Echo, to the effect that a ween Lord Stanley, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. tig te » is on the tapis, and that the old hack Whigs are ned out of their lives at the prospect of being left ou in the cold. The fact, however, that Sir Roundel almer, the ex ...

... forming an Association, based upon constitutional principles, and in which—with- out regard to the old party designations of Whig and Tory, Liberal and Conservative,—whoever may desire to secure for property and intelligence their just weight and recogni- ...

... convivial moment, who induced Lord Arthur to place them on the table of the House. Mr. Gladstone, and the more eminent of the Whigs, while quite ready to endorse the substance of them, at the same time repudiate the very general impression that they were ...