... existing circumstances of the country—wholly apart from its merit or demerit. It is very obvious that nothing will induce the Whig leaders to put a question or interfere in any manner with the Ministers just now. Lord John Russell gently alluded to the injustice ...

... to be prepared gg to embark in progress, not reaction. These men think that a perseverance in the old humdrum policy of Whigs and Tories will not succeed in preserving either to the gg higher classes their influence, to the middle classes their ...

... King's service, it is unjust to obstruct their proceedings and to refuse them a fair support. By this rule, the leaders of the Whig opposition acted throughout the long Administration of Lord Liverpool, and with very little exception until the close of that ...

... collision in the Whig ranks. If this can be accomplished the Bank will be established. If it cannot, it will fail. We last week alluded to some of those circumstances which evince a desire to remove difficulties and avoid collision in the Whig ranks, and ...

... of many Whigs. So far as I can 46 judge, some from one cause and some from another, a very uspectable minority of the party is favourable to the scheme of allowing the Locofocos to carry all their plans into operation immediately. The Whigs would ...

... noble defence of Lucknow. It alludes also to Sir James Brooke, as likely to be treated with more consideration than by the Whigs. Credit is further given to the Premier for diligently seeking out cases for justice, passed over by the late administration ...

... acquiring official strength by coalition with able men of other political schools, who subscribed to the policy of the old Whig party and consented to forward its measures. Lords Palmerston and Clarendon are amongst these, and it is said they are consequently ...

... great measure guided by the discretion and political sagacity and experience of his right honourable colleague. Some of the Whig party speculate on the probability of Sir Robert Peel declining to undertake the responsibility of office. If he had been in ...

... Throne, under the advice of a Whig Ministry; and the consequences of the alteration of the sugar duties were so disastrous to our free-producing colonies, that, within two years after the passing of the act of 1846, a Whig Ministry also found it necessary ...

... shrewd politician, he knew that the professed RINI 211 liberals would be split up into a number of incoherent sections that no whig leader could bring into cohesion. Such a combination as that which defeated the Government could only have been gained, except ...

... 418 pWULAR TO BANKERS. Whig Government, the circumstances hitherto developed do not appear to support them. Lord Brougham, Messrs. Grant, Rice, Ellice, and Abercrombie, are political adventurers, and that single epithet explains the cause of their adhesion ...

... advances in the house. And such is the stereotypage of septennial parliaments that, probably, none will make progress. The Whigs are content to hold office, the radicals to advance with the country, slowly and quietly, as becomes a time at once ...