... sts who cried for immediate, instead of gradual, repeal, voted, with characteristic consistency, against ! The bulk of the Whig party also voted the same way, but, from a very different motive. They believed, and with good reason, that the Free Trade ...

... Peel must be now satisfied that those of his party who would have joined him in supporting such a measure when introduced by a Whig Minister, would have been very small number indeed —probably or 50 at most, and perhaps not more than 20. Under such circumstances ...

... opinions the great questions the times were formed broad, enlightened, and philanthropic prin| ciples. He was large-minded whig of the Revolution era, and it was ever his desire to promote the greatest good of all classes of society, and to foster a good ...

... arising out of tlie contest for the representation of Mayo county between Mr M'Donnell, the repeal candidate, and Moore, a whig. Some of Mr Moore's voters, proceeding to the poll under a military escort, were pelted with stones from behind a wall. The ...

... they come to displace and dispossess and annihilate the Whigs, they say— a truce with party : a species of impudence never excelled even by that'perfection of it, the stage Irishman. The Whigs have received this invasion toppling down upon them with ...

... to hi* ;~ • . have so temptingiy watched with . T n,h His X was attaching mteroSt l- ...

... whatever exists the best-informed circles respecting the truth of the rumour, that an understanding has been come to between the Whigs the one side, and the Conservatives on the other, with respect to the reduction of the Protestant, and the endowment of the ...

... taste for books and pictures, which he has a right to gratify while there yet time. Consequently the whigs must return to power. We are on the eve of a whig ministry. Perhaps it will not be a mere reconstruction of the old Melbourne government without Melbourne ...

... whom, in April Ist, 1807, it was restored to the custody from which a temporary and short-lived accession to power of the Whigs had alone wrested it. We have thus followed Lord Eldon throughout the various passages of his progress to the attainment of ...

... Massie. Lord Palmerston as a Speaker.—All things taken into account, Lord Palmerston is, perhaps, the best debater among the Whig leaders of the House of Commons. In the different qualities which, when combined, go to render man an orator, he is excelled ...

... of Ireland, parliamentary as well as municipal, ought to rest upon the same basis those of England and Scotland, Though the Whig Government had introduced a poor law into Ireland, he thought that the property and the poverty of that country required further ...

... supposed, the benefit of their best thoughts on Free Trade. M. Guizot may represent what we should call in England a cold Whig. One who would never have been danger, like Sir Robert Peel, of taking a lead in a great improvement at his own peril and ...