... of office-bearers seems to foreshadow the future with a determined band of Adullamites, dwelling in a cave apart from the Whigs and Moderate Liberals, and making war upon all corners, except, perhaps, those allies by natural selection, the followers ...

... change, and the most interesting question with all independent Conservatives is how far the Whigs can be relied upon not to Surrender to the Radicals. Until the Whig party can give us some assurance on this point the regular Conservative party will probably ...

... escutcheon. In 1858, Lord John Russell, having got up a dif. ference with Lord Palmerston on the famous Conspiracy Bill, the Whig Ministry went out. Mr. Disraeli again became Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Derby, and in 1859 introduced his first ...

... Irish questions. This is a pretty broad hint for the coming session. Freeman's .Tournal.—The question is not what we owe the Whigs—we owe them nothing—but how best Ireland can be served. It appears to us self-evident that the policy for the Irish party to ...

... writ of Habeas Corpus can be suspended, and at the same time remedial legislation of wide scope can be proposed. In this way Whig and Radical may be alternately appeased, and both sides of the House, and possibly both Hcuses, may be brought into harmonious ...

... constituency in the United Kingdom. The Irish voters will complicate this distraction. The schism between the Radicals and the Whigs, which has already begun to declare itself, will be powerfully operative; and though in the new House of Commons the ascendency ...

... principles Lord Russell seemed to be the leader of a forlorn hope. Weekly Times.—We have not always been admirers of the great Whig politician. It has often been our duty to find fault with him; but, looking back over his career, we acknowledge the great ...

... of Edinburgh. The deceased bore during his life a prominent part in Scotch ecclesiastical affairs. He was for some years a Whig in politics, and was not only a cordial supporter and admirer of the late Dr. Guthrie, but was an office-bearer in his church ...

... before his new constituents in a somewhat dubious character. However, under the auspices of Lord Ripon he now figures as an old Whig; it will be instructive to see how he will act the part in the House of Commons. ...

... justify it by satisfying the will of those he governed as was any satrap of secular Rome in the days of the Ccesars. Northern Whig.—The new Pope is a moderate man, and anxious to be on the best terms with the Government of the United Kingdom, it is not likely ...

... but a few years before; to-day be has irritated the Duke of Sutherland; to-morrow he will be at loggerheads with the entire Whig party. Fiat justitia mat &dun t cries this man tenax propositi—be that propositum what it may—and if all the world cannot ...

... LIFE of Lord Rendlesham, written by J. T. Denny, appears in the Biograph for November. Mn. I. INNES, of the Belfast Northern Whig, is going to undertake the editorship of the Northern Echo, the present editor, Mr. Stead, having joined the staff of the Pall ...