... new ministry. The Daily News merely reproduces the gossip of the evening papers. A correspondent of the Scotsman (a strong Whig organ) says that generally Mr Disraeli has received the adhesion of Lord Derby’s supporters, in consequence at once of the ...

... Ministry in office, have fallen to the Whigs with comparatively few exceptions for the last thirty years. The rank and file of the party consequently began to imagine that the wide domain of official appointment was a Whig preserve, and only found out their ...

... years ago, are the only living statesmen who have held the highest office under the Crown. It was perhaps fortunate for the Whig leader that his more brilliant and eloquent rival broke off from his early party relations before the death of Lord Althorp; ...