... is reminded of the manner in which Lord MELBOURNE justified the leavingout of LordBROUGHAM from the new arrangements for the Whig Ministry. Lord Melbourne fully admitted the Parliamentary capacity ot' which Lord Brougham had just made a signal display, ...

... the Covenant lectured in vain. And even bis enterprises sank into commonplace besido those of the two Princes of Wales whom Whigs truly called Pretenders. Charles Edward, as he was when he fought at Preston Pans, and was turned back by timid folly from ...

... undoubtedly the concluding one, enti- tled Plain Whig Principles. In it the programme of the Liberal Party is, for the first time since Mr. Glad- stone's defeat in 1874, definitely propounded by the Whig official organ. It has long been apparent to dispas- ...

... attack; made upou them had appeared the Edinburgh under the title of '• Plain Whig Principles. The editor laid down a number propositions which were jt plain, and which were not Whig, and which were only conspicuous for the absence of any principle at all ...

... this was to strengthen the Tories but it also prepared the way for the accession of George I., and the consequent rise of the Whigs to power. The interest excited by the controversy was revealed in the savage tone of some of those who took part in it. ?? ...

... but his own. If, for the sake of giving a rough notion of the drift of his teaching, we describe Mr. Cory as a philosophical Whig with an binterest in foreign politics by which he comes near the Palmerston school, and a special bent for political economy ...

... energy he displayed, and by adroitly taking advantage of circumstances, lie gained greater advantages for England than his Whig predecessors had gained by the long and bloody Crimean War. And even if, by this time, the glory of the treaty has faded because ...

... Mr HI. Neville as Lord Clancarty, Miss Ada Cavendish as Lady Claincarty, fir W. H. Vernoin es Lord Spencer, the implacable Whig denouncer and would-be execetioloer of his sister's proscribed husband ; Mr Charles Sugden, then a very young acetr, wans King ...

... non-intervention is in accordance with its interests. This was the lesson read to English Tories by d French Radical when Whig statesmen were given to meddling abroad and offering inconsiderate and dangerous advice. M. Louis Blanc Wrotr several letters ...

... . (By all Old Blue.) In spite of respectable gias And legalised cabs, the fight o'er is: And Dizzy,avbo ones dished the Whigs,- Has now, woe isnio, dished the Tories. DIZZY's DICTUM, WITIH PUNCH'S POSTSCILIPT.-'The world is governed by Sovereilns ...

... WEDDING. But there, thank goodness gracious, I've got to the end of two paragraphs, and I haven't said a word about all the old Whig boobies who are getting into office. And I'm safe for a line or two, because I must say something about Freddy's wedding, seeing ...

... But it probably occurred to more than one reader that the real trial of the annalist's powers was to come. The struggles of Whigs and Tories before the Reform Bill are, as it were, things before the Flood, capable of being handled without undue excitement ...