... building were to be raised by voluntary contributions. If the object were so purely national, as it was now represented to be by Whigs and Tories, by Freetraders and Protectionists, why should not 40,000f. or 50,00 W. contri* buted towards it out of the public ...

... in order that he might know when to present himself to the house. (A laugh.) This debate was indeed prodigy, for here were Whigs proposing a reduction of salaries, and Conservatives proposing a still greater reduction ! He might say of this new Legend ...

... fated instrument of African and Celtic civilization, has been still further glorified for its mission on the backs of the Whigs. We have feverish, restless, and desultory House, formidable not so much for any positive error as for the slight resistance ...

... standing before the public of this enlightened empire. In 1841, when Sir Kobert Peel was bidding; against the Whigs for popular favour—the Whigs who offered you an Bs. fixed duty upon all foreign com, he told you in his Tamworth manifesto, as he told the ...

... In reference to the small agitation which has been set agoing in the metropolis with regard to this question, the Northern Whig has some truthful observations which set the matter in proper light. For instance“ln the first place, is it desired to make ...

... the public opinion of this country hailed with uumingled satisfaction the double chastisement of his repeated treachery: the Whig journal alone had condescended to palliate that offence against the public faith and the peace of Europe, whilst it had failed ...

... Cottenham is not that Bickersteth. When the Whigs had the opportunity, they sent Bickersteth to the Rolls ; and into the high seat of Chancery they elevated Sir Charles Pepys, capital equity lawyer—and a very stanch Whig. And he has justified the choice in his ...

... subject—we will venture very confidently to assure our readers that there is as much chance of Sir Robert Peel displacing the Whig Cabinet just now as of his becoming Emperor of Hayti or Great Llama of Thibet. prisoners), the Mai, admitted that in of technical ...

... Radical members. They had no particular confidence In the present Ministry, and there would be no lamentations among them if the Whigs went out to-morrow. (Loud cheers.) He suggested the conference should be held annually. Unless the middle and working classes ...

... rate of interest than the state funds. A correspondence had recently taken place, in which Mr. Pridie, an Irish gentleman of Whig principles, had asked with some bitterness, why the Government had not enabled the Irish proprietors to obtain money at a low ...

... certain indulgence which was Veil, some persons aaid that the notion was that if thatwere always exhibited towards the finance of Whig doM > ‘hen, the revenue of the country not sufficing for Ministry. {A laugh.) The Government could not ex- expenditure, the ...

... present Government; whether that were so or not could not tell. He did not think any set of men, whether Protectionists, Tories, Whigs, or Radicals, could keep themselves entirely free from that Imputation. They were all guilty of abuses which in the process ...