... which seems unanswerable, so far as the Whig Party are concerned. said, What right have you talk of reform when there are some counties with hundreds of thousands of inhabitants who have no votes? The Whigs, who opposed the £lO franchise at the passing ...

... than political in its aim, it appeals to men of all parties combine for a good which will benefit all. Tory, Conservative, Whig, and Badieal may all enfol themselves under its banners without gtviug up or compromising any their views. Just as the wholo ...

... should not have been surprised if these reasons had been advanced by a Conservative ; no, nor yet if they had proceeded from Whig, but coming as they do from a Radical Reformer, they do indeed surprise me. For, certainly, if we are to tolerate bad laws ...

... have time for a man fit to be the colleague of Mr. Ayrton. Sir W. Clay is scarcely tobe thought of. He is nothing better a Whig hack, and his one redeeming point—the Churchrate Bill—has gone from him, and apparently found its way into better hands. We ...

... alike in the eyes of the rustic spectator who looked only to the general effect. The simile was an apt one. ailthough. then. Whig and Tory were names which represented parties of distinct and opposing principles. It is immeasurably more appropriate now ...

... think they would get a good bill from this administration. the other hand, there was some danger that an union of Tories and Whigs, the Radical members of the house might beaten, and some mock measure of reform, like the last, thrust upon the country. The ...

... Disraeli, he addressed himself to the Reform Act, and charged the Whigs with promoting it for party purposes. He, in criticising that act, declared boldly that it had only served to consolidate Whig power. Now he (Mr. Skillett) was certain that the greatest ...

... men. All sections of the house seemed to be pretty much alike in that respect, and there was little difference between tory, whig, or radical. But a short time ago Mr. llorsman had explained to the country how effectually man lost his independence join ...

... to gain popularity in the country. They had already obtained the release of one of the engineers from Naples. (Cheers.) The Whigs call themselves liberal but do nothing worth the name of liberality. He was inclined to think that the present Government, ...

... word from Disraeli would have passed the Oaths Bill, and if the Chancellor of the Exchequer had been under the thumb of the Whig leader, the Lords would not have dared to lay their fingers on the measure. The Derby Cabinet have sustained their first defeat ...

... censure directedagainst Lord borough's despatch. This, it is rumoured, resolved at a conference at Lord Palmerston's, and hungry whigs were delighted at the prospect of soon tasting the sweets of office; but lo! at the last moment, Lord Ellenborough tendered ...

... dissemble the disaster however much their soreness may exhale in complaints of defection. It is only the little Whig organs, and the still smaller Whig parasites, that prate of moral trihumps and substantial success.'' The great Palmerstoman journal has ...