... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... he believes would be endangered by the accession of the Protectionists to power. But Whig rhetoric begins to lose t its charm, and experience thus taught us that Whig promise c falls so hopelessly short of performance that great faith cannot be placed ...

... state of almost ,r, inextricable confusion. This celebrated letter, n. this bombshell, this infernal machine, as the Dn Whigs are now disposed to call it,. was ii- written by the Prime Minister from his' official -w residence in Downing-street, solely ...

... THE CHANCELLOR'S BUDGET. v~i~AJL~ f XI-.LJ ~ os. re Finance has always been fatal to the Whigs. There n are mroments in the life of ministries, when, as surely w as in that of ordinary mortals, safety can be secured St only by a brave and bold policy ...

... confidence of the country than an6 LII )d whon hie quitted it. If a fortnight ago it was deemed eve ofa hopeless task for the Whigs to attempt to catrry on acec the Government, -we cannot understand bow what- exit 0- has occurred in the interval should render ...

... to be fought in the courts of the revising barristers, and his words- Register! register! register! became the slogan of whig, tory, and radical. It was here, then, on the evening men- tioned, that his successor, its command of an important political ...

... foreign goods in bond in [old. Manchester, was in direct contradiction of those principles of commercial policy which the Whigs houthave been supposed to regard as identified with their political creed. Nobody now-a days pretends to deny the great advantage ...

... derived from the Taxes on Knowledge.n we 'Without a very vigorous popular movement, how- om ever, we have no hope that the Whigs will be dis-a ;ant posed to abolish the newspaper stamp duty, and in the all probability they would think they had sufficiently ...

... Conservatives of Manchester-E i. whether Whig or Tory-think that the true interests 8, of this borough, or the commercial prosperity of the t - t k, empire, would be promoted by the substitution of cd some Whig Lord or nondescript Tory Peer, for e- either ...