... .lermitted to exist in every department of trade and ictures in Great Britain. The League reckoned anions its adversaries Whigs as well as Tories. All were agains their projected alteration in the Corn Laws. The pet minister of the protectionists, with ...

... 665. a quarter was the price at which the ports [wese opened, but in[that year, at the close of the [war, certain gentlemen, Whigs and Tories, came forward in the ,Housc of Commons with bill for raising the protecting price from 665. to 80s. upon a sliding ...

... When the Protection Party, under the leadership of Sir Robert Peel, drove the Whigs from power in 1841, Lord John Russell replied to an address from Plymouth, language now a little memorable. If the people are united, said, prohibitions and prohibitory ...

... associated. (Cheers.) If I were disposed to prove the merits of the Whigs or Tories, I should find very little to raise on account of either. (Hear, hear, and a laugh.) If turn to the Whigs, who possibly may be in power before many months shall have elapsed ...

... his word, no longer > th ' Uld *hich sustained his ministry. At '' true, M. Guizot having laboured 4 un ...

... have been violent but the resistance in favour of peace has shown itself strong. The Democrats of the South, as well as the Whigs of the Xorth, are averse to extremes. Qi'ixcv Adams's outburst is an exception, prompted by the parental affection of that ...

... Wolverhampton.—Birminqham Journal. Wigtown.shire.—(From the Witness). —Mr. Dalrymple, - the present member for the county, is a Whig and Free ' trader. He supported Mr. Maule in his gallant struggle to avert the disruption of the church, and to obtain redress ...

... government. [A voice from the hustings: The Whigs can't form one.] No, because these protectionists would vote for Sir R. Peel, although he proposed the very measure they were condemning, rather than for a Whig. He would entreat the landowners to consider ...

... remarked by the excellent Mr. Chipman (of the House Representatives at Washington), thwarts the ways Providence and makes men Whigs, must of itself have secured that. But it is not so. The existing Bucolic World is full of Squire Westerns. Day by day, they ...

... passive one it might be, and even then would be most useful. As an active alliance, it has somehow always failed, whether in Whig or Tory hands. Lord Palmerston tried it with eager and disapjioißtcd zeal. Lord Aberdeen has taken up the broken threads, and ...

... rendered verbal homage to their formula. Now, none so poor as do them roverence. On both sides, they are repudiated. The Whigs take no ad. vantage of their discontent to oust or harass the Conservatives. Neither party tactics, nor desire of reta, liation ...

... change since he enjoyed their unbounded confidence. He is the very man for whose elevation they thwarted and demolished the Whig Ministry. Others condemn him now as they condemned him then, and for the self-same reasons. But with the Protectionists, he ...