... authorship to Lord Brougham, who never forgot nor forgave the fact that his Chancellorship was considerably shorter than the Whig Administration. His Lordship, however, has formally contradicted the rumour, and freed himself from the additional contempt ...

... of Banbridge, in the speeches of two Presbyterian clergymen ; one of whom, the Rev. Mr Rutherford we quote from ths Northern Whig) spoke the following effect He appeared there 'in the character of a minister of the Gos|>el' He was for making rather , summary ...

... KNOWLEDGE. Mr Gibson, are glad to see, is about to propose, in the House of Commons, the abolition of these injurious taxes. Whig Government professes to be anxious for the moral and intellectual elevation of the lower classes, and avows itself ready to ...

... ms, and are therefore stopped the Post-office. In the present House of Commons there are four distinct parties:—First the Whigs proper, or Ministerialists, numbering about 2fis ; secondly, the Peel section, numbering about 99 ; third- Iv, the Cobden and ...

... witty at Hume's expense, because Hume did not propone that women should possess the suffrage. Whenever ...

... some amusing illustrations of what elections cost. He had found that in Harwich 94 Tory votes cost .£6300 ; 84 Whig votes cost Nottingham, Whig votes cost £. 12,000 ; 144 Tory vot >s cost .£5OOO. What better remedy for this than the extension of the franchise ...

... years, the expenditure has been reduced by nearly three millions and a half—a result which never would have been gained, if the Whig Ministry had not felt the pressure from without. It is plain that Lord John Russell and his colleagues have very reluctantly ...

... Commons, the annual motion on this subject was brought forward. All the arguments used in the debate were on one side, and the Whig Ministry on the other. Sir George- Grey, who spoke against the ballot, though he admitted that he had previously voted for ...

... that, if the Whigs had been left to the freedom of their own will, any such retrenchments would have been made. Probably, but for Cobden and his associates, the revenue would now have been in such a depressed state as it was left by the Whigs in 1842, when ...

... good county. The conduct of the Whig Ministry relative to Mr Hntt's motion for withdrawing the African squadron has been very generally condemned; and there can no doubt that similar motion will be carried, though the Whig Ministry, along with the said ...

... educational discussion, and at a period when, from the speech of the Duke of Argyll in the House Lords, and acquiesced in by the Whig Ministry, appears that|tlie parochial system, with all its exclusive encumbrances and shortcomings, is still to kept, intact ...

... number of officials that should be employed ! We trust that D'Lsraeli's amendment will be carried. Several years ago, when the Whig Government proposed to fix Prince Albert's income at £50,000, the Conservatives stood forward financial Reformers for once ...