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... peers, and overcame the resistance of the House of Peers by menacing them with creation of new peers sufficient convert the Whig minority into majo. rity. In fine, when Reform Bill was carried in 1832, the Sovereign and the House of Lords were in fetters ...
... the question. ' The Tories, taught too late to forget the wrongs put upon them by their leaders, fought for dear life. The Whigs, having contrived to get the King iuto their power, kept him there unflinchingly. Partly by most unscrupulous use of his name ...
... a man's a man for a' that. In The Whig's Last Chance, the respectable remnant of once powerful family and political party are warned against following the lead of the Radicals. It is not suggested that the Whigs should join the Conservatives ; they ...
... children are. What do voa want now V Cyril (with triumphant glance at his playfellow): ' Johnny Cope wouldn't believe you'd got a whig on the top of'your head.' A Fortune from Beer. —Ou Tuesday probate was granted of the will of Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, of ...
... believed the Liberal Unionist party contained within itself all the clement which had distinguished the Whig party during its history, and that even if the Whig name ceased to exist, the party wonld exist ill some form long as our present Constitution endured ...
... which ought to be generously reciprocated by his constituents, thinks the Daily Netos. Mr. Brand belongs to one of the few Whig families which have for the most part remained faithful to the Liberal cause, and this will be the third time he has contested ...
... and which, i n turn is voured being the birthplace of the house Russell Lord John Russell has staked the for tunes of the Whig party, and his own fame, on a remodelling ofthe House of Commons. He has done this after deep thought and long calculation ...
... became convert to the Whig views upon the currency ; and, however he may have vacillated upon other points, in the defence of his currency bill he displayed the obstinacy of the mule and the intrepidity of the lion. The Whigs and Peelites being thus ...
... strongly deprecated the rendering sr l Pendent u P on France for her daily bread, c nch wheat and flour was never f Sir - Peel Whigs ! Now, rfillCri C ° nse ...
... a number of boroughs, a seat on the , having come to be regarded as a piece of patronage reserved for ministerial ats. Tbe Whigs have never been very y bestowing a reward which costs them . nave frequently swamped a bench f batches of magistrates where ...
... squireocracy, and the Whigs bave recruited their rank and fih* by a larger proportion of the professional and mercantile classes, neither party bas been exclusively composed of one class or one set The quasi- popular party —the Whigs—have always been d ...
... y, and the Whigs.have recruited their rank and file by a larger proportion of the professional and mercantile classes, neither party has been- exclusively composed of one class or one set of interests. The quasi- popular party—the Whigs-have always ...