... good county. The conduct of the Whig Ministry relative to Mr Hntt's motion for withdrawing the African squadron has been very generally condemned; and there can no doubt that similar motion will be carried, though the Whig Ministry, along with the said ...

... witty at Hume's expense, because Hume did not propone that women should possess the suffrage. Whenever ...

... that, if the Whigs had been left to the freedom of their own will, any such retrenchments would have been made. Probably, but for Cobden and his associates, the revenue would now have been in such a depressed state as it was left by the Whigs in 1842, when ...

... years, the expenditure has been reduced by nearly three millions and a half—a result which never would have been gained, if the Whig Ministry had not felt the pressure from without. It is plain that Lord John Russell and his colleagues have very reluctantly ...

... Commons, the annual motion on this subject was brought forward. All the arguments used in the debate were on one side, and the Whig Ministry on the other. Sir George- Grey, who spoke against the ballot, though he admitted that he had previously voted for ...

... some amusing illustrations of what elections cost. He had found that in Harwich 94 Tory votes cost .£6300 ; 84 Whig votes cost Nottingham, Whig votes cost £. 12,000 ; 144 Tory vot >s cost .£5OOO. What better remedy for this than the extension of the franchise ...