... The Whigs tried to carry a Peerage Bill, which would have turned the House of Lords into a close oligarchy, and the Tories prevented them. The Tories would have increased the number of county members, and the W\higs resisted the attempt. The Whigs invaded ...

... Mr. Wilson's pages the history of these Whig aberra- tions we are again and again reminded of the follies of our own Philo- Russian Liberals. The Czar Alexander is to them what Napoleon Bonaparte was to the Whigs of i8o8-a despot, but a benevolent despot ...

... contains five dukies of the United Kingdom, two of Tory and three of Whig creation. One'of the Tory dukedoms, however, is that of Wellington, in no sense a party creation. The Whig appetite for strawberry-leaves is therefore to the Tory in the ratio of ...

... the change would Stop. Are the Radicals or the Whigs the more likely of the two to be dis- appoinited? and which of them would be in the better position to make its disappointment transient ? If the Whigs found that the change did more th1an they expected ...

... -that the gulf between the Whigs and the Conservatives- is: as' narrow- as that between the; Whigs_ and the Ransomist Radicals. is wide -There is: no mistaking :the significance of the fact,. for one thing, :that all the Whig speakers contented ' themselves ...

... service to him; for the above mistake does not prevent him from seeing, as logically it ought, that the pure Whig creed is essentially Conservative. Whig and Tory in the eighteenth century did really very often differ as Conservative and Liberal, notably so ...

... men and Whig measures. The Daily Aewzs remarks that the Edinbuig7li Review ascribes the fall of the late Premier to his relying upon the more advanced Liberals and despising his Whigs; and holds that if he had leaned more on his Whigs and less on ...

... legislation recoin- mended by the example of Mr. Pitt, so was it open to the 'Whigs id I832 to adopt the conservative policy recommended by the authority' hf Mr. Burke. Had the Whigs understood their own position, had they,' too, been faithful to their original ...

... Carlton Club is fatal to them. A truly Christian Whig, when smitten, as Mr. OSBORNE has been, on the right cheek, would doubtless have turned the left cheek also to the hand of the smiter; but truly Christian Whigs are rare fowl. Had Mr. OSBORNE at once admitted ...

... finally exploded in the year I have already named with a shock that destroyed the Whig party. The reason is perfectly well known to all students of the period. The Whigs resolved to make all government impos- sible unless the King would place himself in ...

... under any cir- cumstances. The infatuation of the Whig leaders made its return to power inevitable. Since the Queen's accession a combination of Whigs and Tories had governed the country with success. The Whigs had now determined that this system should be ...

... was no pretence of any uniformity or unanimity,%which everybody knew in his own heart to be perfectly impossible. The Whig was a Whig and the Radical was a Radical, and the Liberal (whatever that might be) was a Liberal-one as: good as the other; forming ...