... of Church property. The friends of Lord Mayo enjoyed a triumph in the House on Tuesday night when Earl Russell, the veteran Whig, rose to declare that the best thing that could done by Parliament would be to raise the social position and increase the moral ...

... will all _unite to labour to bring peace , and concord , _and prosperity to the land of our common love . The _Northern _. Whig is less _enthusiastic , but _earnest _in expressing its pleasure . In _the _course of an able article on-the subject _the Wing ...

... fiercely denounced by them last autumn, and it was remark, able to see Earl Russell and Lord Halifax, with others of the old Whigs, go into the same lobby with the Marquis Salisbury in its support. The occupants of the other lobby were an equally diverse ...

... regarding Defoe—that , in his later years , hemanagcd or _miamaii . _'iged a Tory journal for the purpose of _aiding the _Whigs , with whom he was in connivance . THE _Clll _ISC'II AND THE FKEyCII RETOLtTlOX . A History of _the llelations of Church and ...

... direct issue, Earl Bussell, though a Liberal, is still Constitutional Whig, and he refuses to sacrifice important principles that have been all along avowed and maintained by the Whig party to the exigencies of the position of Mr Gladstone. Even he, therefore ...

... _throughout _lie _contrived to convey a _false impression , and _succeeded so far as to deceive Lord _Halifax and some other Whig Peers into _helping him to get _tyhat he wanted for the disestablished Church . So _douot the hope was that _other and higher ...

... inaugurate new ideas. Mr Miller drove Mr Moncreiff out of Edinburgh. He was a sort of little David, in a small way, vanquishing the Whig Goliath of the Parliament House. And he walked behind Saul, in the shape of Mr Duncan M‘Laren, to the songs of a saintly chorus ...

... in truth, no end to Whig inconsistency. A Lord Advocate makes a promise in 1867, and breaks it in 1369; a Prime Minister says one thing at the elections, and does hat is totally opposite after them and finally, the leader of the Whig party in the House ...

... gifts of individual monarchs, and, therefore, the property of the Church by precisely the same tenure as many of our wealthiest Whig families hold large portion of their estates. But however willing the Peers may be to effect a practical , agreement with the ...

... Constitutional VV'hig, and he refuses to sacrifice important principles that have been all along avowed and maintained by the Whig party to the exigencies the position of Mr Gladstone. Even he, therefore, declined agree to tho ruling of the Commons against ...

... minority seems to have been made up of | the section of Conservative Peers who follow the ! Marquis of Salisbury, and the Old Whigs repre- j sented by Eaxl Russell and Lord Halifax ; while the majority was composed of the orthodox Conservatives who adhere ...

... and of almost historical interest , here is a letter in which the present _Earl Grey explains to Mr Grey the failure of the Whigs to form a _, Cabinet at _the Corn-law crisis in the end of _1845 . — Belgrave Square , Dec _. 221845 . Mv DEAB Sin , —As ...