... foundations have been of Tate years systematically undermined the Whigs, and serious breaches have been made in some of them. It here, then, tliat the essential difference between Whigs and Conservatives ought to be exhibited. If Sir Robert Peel did not ...

... their lost power. The Whig organ, the Morning Chronicle, had given itself, body and soul, to the League; and, altogether, he must be very bold man who would say how far the Whigs might not be induced to go. The political Whigs were the worst enemies ...

... same mistake at the first sight of an argument, which gravely supports tbe proposition that the Tories are economical and the Whigs extravagant. Yes, this is actually the assertion of the Conservative writer, with whose fanciful lucubrations it is our present ...

... those days majorities were the price corruption, we cannot avoid thinking that a Government under present circumstances, be it Whig or Tory, can hardly hope for a continual majority powerful their numbers. The reason of this is obvious. Unless upou very exciting ...

... of Commons (not yet completed) such reverses, curtailments, and transmutations, scarcely any Whig measure ever experienced, even at the lowest period of Whig decline. Their fundamental principles discarded, every provision which made them objects of public ...

... cheap boast. You retain your place merely because the Whigs have the virtue which you had not in supportkg their own principles, no matter by whom proposed. You say that you have done more than the Whigs did in giving effect to liberal principles. If you ...

... Russell, for the purpose of requesting him to move the amendment. The Irish members also came to the resolution that, should the Whig measure fail, no opportunity should be lost to wear out tbe government by delay, and that case the protectionists did not ...

... tbat the Cabinet is split; that we forget which of them are in smouldering disagreement with the rest; and that the leading Whig nobles, including the Premier's own brother, are repenting of free trade sackcloth and ashes. It avails not that we know it ...

... that they should combine at this time in support of liberal principles, because they had to counter a powerful opposition. The Whig Government (loud groans and hisses) opposed Parliamentary and financial reform, and colonial reform ( Hear hen » and hisses ...

... similar question is agitating the public mind. An important meeting has been held at Lexington, presided over Mr. Clay, the great Whig leader, at which resolutions were passed denouncing the war, and disavowing any desire acquire fresh territory. The Administration ...

... READING, SATURDAY, Sept. The parliamentary business this week has nearly comprised the official resignation of the Whig Ministry : tho address of Lord John Russell, which he took review the liberal policy and principles uniformly pursued and supported ...

... have seriously reflected upon the course of events within the last few years the degenerate langour of the administration of Whigs, and the succession a Conservative Cabinet upon the ruins of that weak and corrupt policy—it had become evident that a disposition ...