... considered favourable to the country, and that is in his freedom from all family ties. It was always urged as a gross vice of Whig administrations that family connections hadgreater weight than political services or eminent abilities. A RUSSELL, a GnEY, ...

... —although this also Mr. Stephens had refrained from mentioning,—that the Poor Law, which was scandal to our age, was passed by the Whigs. Before reading the resolution he wished to make one practical remark. The lecturer had asked them to. give Mr. Disraeli’s ...

... had been held at Cambridge-house; but somehow or other they did not quite succeed among those whom it was the object of the Whig Government to bring together at social re-unions. The Countess Frances Woldegrave's at homes, which are always patronised ...

... had been held at Cambridge-house; but somehow or other they did not quite - succeed among those whom it was the object of the Whig government to bring together at social re-unions. The Countess Frances Waldegrave's at homes, which are Slways patronised ...

... eight or nine seats, which would include one for Dundee, and perhaps for Aberdeen. There are several whose party feeling as Whigs, or whose strong political policy as Radicals, induces them to sacrifice their feeling as Scotchmen, and who prefer seeing ...

... that they regard with just indignation any factious attempts to disparage a distinguished statesman. Just as the exclusive Whig oligarchy formerly tried to run down and hunt down our ever illustrious representative George Canning, so do Lord Russell and ...

... wait,' it was said, ' until he has retired, and all will be well with us.' But no sooner has the storm carried away wicked Whig chaff than the heavens are forthwith darkened by new clouds of Tory chaff. That the writer of frivolous stories about ' Vivian ...

... difficult to distinguish a ' Conservative ' from a ' Liberal ;' or, as I should put it, a Tory from an old Whig—i.e., a Whig Oligarchical and. a Whig Radical, and hence 'Conservative- Liberal,' Liberal-Conservative,' and such other mixed breeds. The difficulty ...

... Ascanius as the only man who can be trusted to do it. The meaning of this only too clear. Evidently there is no change in the Whigs. Their lust of office is imperishable. They are prepared to revolutionize Ireland, and to risk enormous evil, rather than remain ...

... probably be adopted. THE FUTURE LIBERAL, GOVERNMENT.—The new Govern-, ment, says the Spectator, if raised to power, will not be a Whig Government of the ancient type. It need not in the public interest be quite as weak in the peers as, the present one admits ...

... probably be adopted. THE FUTURE LIBERAL GOVERMIENT.—The new Government, says the Spectator, if raised to power, will not be a Whig Government of the ancient type. It need nokin the public interest be, quite as weak in the peers as the present one admits ...

... ques- tion upon which they were allagreed. In matters of politics they «differed much,—some of them were Conservative, some Whig and Liberal, and some downright Radical (laughter). Some ef them were for the establishment of reformatories, some for industrial ...