... great degree,.the nature of the contest which, up to that time, had given significance to the party names of Whig and Tory. Hitherto, neither Whigs nor Tories had been directly amenable to any sort of popu- lar responsibility; the great Parliamentary contests ...

... resistance, on all these very questions now appealed to as the fore- most claim of the Whigs to the unquestioning and subservient allegiance .. of real Reformers. The Whigs may thank Mr. Cosnnu, Mr. BRIGHT, Mr. GIBSON, and, the other members of the Manchester ...

... ...

... for principle would bring Whig and Tory together, the interests of party may still keep them separate. This of course can be true only of the Whigs. The party interests of the Tories would favour a coalition with. the Whigs as soon as possible, and it ...

... power has been allowed to pass out of the hands of the great Whig families, pa' There is, however, something hopeful in the tw separation that has ensued of the Peelites from co0 the Whigs. The position' of the Peelites has be' not been a favourable ...

... the country mr I gentlemen, in the Commons, than tarnish the thi historic respectability of the Whig party. He inl would prefer the old see-saw of Tory and Whig, tin with important offices confided only to members of ha d aristocratic families, rather than ...

... measures. The principles he indicates by negatives,- .o Ids, by Lord Stanley's secession from the whigs on the appro- S tot. priation clause, by resistance to the whigs in their ap. bi will proaches towards non-religious education, by the resist- ot hat ance ...

... leaven of VE the old' Whig exOlusiveiess to see such a man as Lord th > 'GtANi'LE suimmarily. deposed frorn6 a post whichis ar neither ibeyond his abilities nor desertsi merely to wi e maklo way for Lord JOHN RUSSELL or any other Whig at p notilbi.iity. ...

... was tboungh tthat this was practicable. but it appears that something occurred which ruffled the temperor discretion of the Whigs, r In coaseqaence of rbwieh they declined to sanction the uames laid before them, This rendered another programme iodis. pensable ...

... will coalesce' with him,-they will serve with him, or above thim, but not under him. That would 'be for n the present Whig leaders and Whig families to a n, abdicate in favour of Sir JAMESEV GRAHAM. The e administration might thereby be more powerful and ...

... l 4(overament would be something less than Tory F though not Whig enough to frighten' all the b ?? from the ministerial benches. Of course ?? such e'd Proposetdon. Stah e ed. expectant Whigs, annd M :rather-onfused the materials out of which the o acoalition ...

... that date, still the old associations remained, and the tle it Whigs used them as the rallying cry of Liberalism. fie w Keep out the Tories was the constant apology be th, e whenever the Whig Ministry wanted an excuse for not y dealing with difficult questions ...