... will not, we are afraid, gain much by the change of Government. We publish to-day statement of the Peerages created by the Whig and Tory parties during the late administrations, by which it appears that the Tories, who have held office for nine years ...

... If this story of Caledonian nepotism be true. Lord Westbury is a martyr, and the Russells, Elliots Romillys. and brother Whigs, simply illustrious supporters that fellow feeling which makes ua wondrous DREADFUL OCCURRENCE AT SOUTH WOODSIDE. EIGHT PERSONS ...

... the fact of its becoming known that considerable section of the Cabinet was in favour of the proposals contained in it. The Whigs in the Ministry, almost to a man. went strongly for some such levelling-up scheme as that indicated by the ex-Premier; and ...

... Lord Ellesmere in Mohave t”. to revive an old family title. exc . c ® ned promotions in the peerage, though greater °* on the Whig side appears still the two Bory inspection. But we have reckoned and the es o btaiued by “plain John Campbell,” Mr Williau ...

... Jtr?is expressed doubts whether, under present circumstances, the Conservatives were justified in keeping aloof from the old Whig pa-, ty. Speaking of the happy progress of democracy a Parisian journal says that in olden times it was only the ladies of ...

... The honour and status of Great Britain having, for several years past, been seriously trifled with and frittered away under Whig rule, and the probable result of such a state of things having caused my subjects considerable anxiety, it afforded me the ...

... with such a man as that, was to forget history. Let Mr Candlish compare Dr Johnson with Sir Robert Walpole or any other of the Whig chiefs of that party ; and he would find the credit on our side. Mr Candlish must also have forgotten Sir Walter Scott, who ...