... have a majorityof representatives to stand by him. The Whig party could easily make itself paramount in the nation by taking some onward and safe steps in reform. We believe that whatever the Whigs may do, Free Trade is secured; but there could not be ...

... Families ! It says little for the Whigs— the professed friends of the people, and advocates of popular rights—that they have formed more oligarchical and exclusive cabinets than the Tories have ever done. When had the Whigs the son of cotton spinner, and ...

... Liberalism has therefore temporary depression of divisions long br ought about by the the uniform intowt« amon the Liberals, and by Whig section The a - forbea,, ance of the and still is evhih-, same non-forbearance has been, party. Even « ° Ut Parliament by the ...

... to an unsuccessful close, and to make apparent to the County that the Tory pretensions were hopeless, thereby allowing the Whig clique so thoroughly to demonstrate the fact putting them such lamentable minority as for many years to put a stop any further ...

... will continue to be felt though it may cease to be active agent in determining political friendships. The gravitation of the Whigs towards the more Liberal section of the Conservative Party will continue, and will quicken as the County Franchise comes more ...

... that the Co Lives might be wise to force a dissolution. The Government have offended two sections of their supporters—the Whigs by their Irish policy, the Radicals, or some of them, by their action in Egypt. On the other hand, the Conservatives could ...

... LORD JOHN'S. Advertiser re-affirms that a meeting did take place between Lord John Russell and certain leading men among the Whigs, and that the result was a determination on the part of Lord John, not however without considerable of dissent as to the propriety ...

... new Parliament which many have confidently expected to be intensely advanced will in reality be very moderate, both on its Whig and Tory sides. But valuable as moderation is, what is most indispensable at the present crisis is that power should be placed ...

... look younger than each other. The difference between Whigs and Tories is very simple one. When the Whigs get into power they are Tories : when the Tories are sent to the right about, they become Whigs. Should the Radicals get in, they will doubtless turn ...

... His remarks about the working classes being represented by the classes who now sat in Parliament was a piece of miserable Whig special pleading, of which Mr Bright himself two years ago would have been ashamed. Mr Bright as a Cabinet Minister and the ...

... sessions. To listen to Sir Charles there might no such thing obstruction ; no such thing even Opposition, to say nothing of a Whig section in the Cabinet. This is all very well standing the side of Mr Chamberlain and exhilarated the enthusiasm of a Birmingham ...

... against its renewal. It is argued that Parliament may possibly refuse to assent to it; Irish members of all shades. Radicals, Whigs, and not a few independent Conservatives, would combine in opposition. And besides, has not Mr Forster half confessed that ...