... EARL RUSSELL. me ueatn oi Jiari jkussell, though long expected from the veteran Whig statesman's age and infirmities, is by no means an event devoid of interest to English politicians of all parties. In particular it seems naturally to invite us to a ...

... the opinions of the great Whig leaders. His gravest speeches were often, indeed, like the historical essays which most men cease to write when they leave the debating society. Still his youthful faith in the sufficiency of Whig principles to draw forth ...

... that the heir to the Dukedom of Buckingham, acting in the temporary Tory interest, introduced into the Reform Bill of the Whigs the Chandos clause, creating a tenant-at-will county franchise; and to-day the inheritors of Tory traditions are at their wits ...

... history memorable to the future. The best work of that period was the execution of the reforms dictated by) the principles of the Whig creed. By the time that the nation had hazarded bolder way s of meeting the perils of the future, Lord Russell’s wonderful ...

... of it. The Kttle darling who asked her mamma if Old King Coal was Cinderella's papa? waa but six, we believe. The Northern Whig states that oa Sunday morning the s.s. Bickley arrived in Belfast, direct from Eiga, with cargo of next season's flaxseed ...

... title of llceljord.ihire Mercury, owned by the celebrated printer Mr. Stephen Austin) was supported by some of the leading Whig pens of the time. Two of the four pages wore printed at Bedford, but in 189.) Mr. Wyatt appeared as an independent ; journalist ...

... that Mr. Disraeli satirised in one of his attacks on Sir Robert Peel, as a running away with the clothing of the Whigs while the Whigs were bathing. This County Financial Boards Bill is just a Liberal exterior habiliment in title or name ou a party ...

... THE WEEK. Little dreamt the Tory Squires of 1832, when they patched the Whig Byform Bill with the Chandos clause, and thus created fur themselves troops of 130 tenant-at-will voters, that iu the next generation the tenant farmers of England would aspire ...

... majority of 65, whose votes cannot, as a rule, be relied upon by either party. Some of these are Homerulers, others were formerly Whigs, but have been compelled to adopt the Home-rule platform, a few still describe themselves as Liberals, and one at least is ...

... keep tile red spectre at a distance was to resist every proposal for reform, however moderate mid reasonable it might be. The Whigs themselves had not yet ' unistered Lord Russell's aphorism, There is nothing so conservative as Progress. In contending with ...

... carry the candidate most favourable to their views. In Argyleshire was fight & &: &x . territorial ascendancy of the great Whig Lord Colin Campbell, the representative ot bined feudalism and Liberalism, polled l,4t>A, fc Colonel Malcolm, the Conservative ...

... —Dr. Friend purchased of Hitchaw, in Bucks. He was the M.D. who was as much patronised by the Tories as was Dr. Mead by the Whigs. Dr. Friend was ut one time a prisoner in the Tower on suspicion of being concerned iu a plot. During his imprisonment Dr. ...