... During the existence of the Whig Government the Reform League leaders abandoned their creed. They gave up manhood suffrage and the ballot, and adopted as final measure the 71. franchise with the open vote. Their cry was the Whig bill, the whole bill, and ...

... the idea of some wag, who takes malicious pleasure in haying his joke at the expense of the Whig Government. Only imagine Mr. Vernon Smith, the most conceited Whig that ever sat in the House of Commons, being made Cabinet Minister, with a view of strengthening ...

... recollected that the Whig bill of 1866 was not in anything like the bill of 1867. The principle of the Tory bill is rating household suffrage; that of the Whig bill was a hard-end-fast line of 11. rental, without any rating whatever. The Whig bill was not thrown ...

... at the Clubs, to the effect that none of their party will, on any account, accept place under a Whig Premier. It was added that, rather than serve under Whig Prime Minister, they will prefer to be for ever excluded from office. We may add, though the fact ...

... to be power in the land, the Whig Oligarchy perceived that It might be utilised in the interests of their party, and employed a lever against the Conservative Government, which was opposed to Catholic Emancipation. The Whig Oligarchy having formed this ...

... aristocratic factions— Whigs or Tories —and intent only on carrying good measures, totally irrespective of the men by whom those measures may introduced. During the existence of the last Derby Administration, the Tories and pure Whigs were nearly divided ...

... and passed, and the Whigs would have been compelled afterwards to introduce another bill, going still further, in order to regain their prestige as Liberals and Reformers. We must here remark, that a Reform measure passed by the Whigs, with a Conservative ...

... THE “ SWEATING” SYSTEM. The Northern Whig, referring to the practice prevalent in some of the large towns, and known as the sweating system,” says : —There are few features, if any, in the annals of the artisan, so revolting as the abominable system of ...

... of the most courteous of Chancellors of the Exche- quer. We have seen many Chancellors in oar time— Tory, Whig, and something more than Whig,—but we never met with any one who could do the amiable anti-tax deputations, with greater gracefulness or effect ...

... selves a long lease of office. And in this they have completely succeeded. The Reform Act of , 1831 was a Whig bill and nothing more. Since ! then the Whigs have evinced a determination that it shall not go further. Earl Russell, their great leader, declared ...

... were joint candidates the Whig interest for Liverpool. The Tories offered to withdraw one of their men, and to this proposal of compromise Brongham was favourable, knowing did that Creevy could get aaat elsewhere. Bat the Whigs would not went to the poll ...

... same friendly professions, so far as they could safely ventured upon from the head of the family, communicated through the Whig leaders. Then it was Charlbs Fox whom Napoleon sought to win to his alliance and way of thinking, proffering a division of ...