... there was a great Whig outery e against the close boroughs, and the people agreed e with the Whigs, and said it was an infamous system. r So they put an end to the close boroughs of the r Tories, but not to the close boroughs of the Whigs' n -(laughter) ...

... chanic Institutes, in a further stage of the season, will be their next resource. The great boundary lines which separated Whigs and Tories are no longer distinguishable. The policy of Sir Robert Peel re- garding the Corn Laws was very much the cause of ...

... of the facts. Edinburgh has been, ever since 1831, one of the few strongholds of Whiggism. It has a little knot of aspiring Whigs, called at Edinburghl the Par- liament House clique,' by which clieue all elections have been managed, ever since the passing ...

... Because the Whig party d choose to start a man who represents none but them- selves, nra all the other parties in the city to do the same ? And if they do not, and s only one other appear. are they then either all t to vote for the Whig, or not vote ...

... member for Argyllshire, until May last year, when, on the resignation of Lord Mackenzic, ha was elevated to the bench by the Whig Government, such was the estimation entertained of his fituess fur the judicial oflice. Both at the bar, where, as we have ...

... had spoken to some of the leading Whigs and believed that it was not their intention to depart from their former policy on the subject. At a subsequent meeting Mr Maurice said he was authorised to state that if the Whig party returned to office, it was ...

... several years, under both Whig and Tory Administrations, English Minister at the Court of St Petersburg-and in the Memoirs and Correspondence of Charles James Fox, edited by Lord John Russell, we find astounding revelations of Whig policy as inspired and ...

... has I condemned, because it will make more easy, bribery, I intimidation, and the other evils of the present system. Y Their Whig opponents do not now offer you the ballot, I but bear in mind that the ballot was part of the plan c of Reform recommendedin ...

... the Edinburgh Whigs, on his visit with this known addition to his influence, to a man refused to countenance. I have used the word gr, at in reference to this man, and I use it de- nignedly. He was offered the Clhief-Jusdioeship by his Whig allies. In ...

... duct of the Gvvernment in passing Liberal mea-t sures which the Whigs would not pass, md in I thai proposing to effeeb reforms- desired by the people- m(a and long resisted by the Whigs, is a shocking blew (as 0 ?? iniflicted on what is- called ' Ministerial ...

... in the State. The actual question, oft verging into an abstraction, was thus lost sight of in the great stake at issue. The Whig party, all triumphant when the Reform Bill was on the waters, had scarcely secured that great innovation when, as- sailed by ...

... its members are so entangled; and if it were I not for the hopes of a pure Whig Cabinet, and that a share of the power of Government would again fall to I certain influential Whig families, it is certain that the Commons would never have asserted themselves ...