... Lord Palmerston offered himself as the great trumpeter, and the walls of the Whig Jericho fell at once to the ground * * * * Whig poet wrote a couplet of lines about the Whigs, which may well enough now be applied to this Protection party bees on flowers ...

... very close i and 6teady union among the broken ranks of the Opposition, the contempt and scorn of the cotton lords for the Whigs, nobility and mobility, at once showed the ridiculous folly of Mr Cobden's scheme of reviving the fruitless vote of No confidence ...

... the coun ry as soon as possible, but that they had previously expected that would have taken place under the auspices of the Whig Government. He also maintained that the followers of Sir Robert Peel had approved of all the motions he had brought forward ...

... appears to have been lucidly stated. Compensation, in some form or other, was shown to have been as much a principle of the Whigs and the Peelites as of the Protectionists ; and the factious unfairness of the motives and course adopted by the framers and ...

... Marquess has had the good sense and the good feeling to make use of this evening. (Cheers.) Considering how strenuous the Whigs were in their opposition to the Government Militia Bill, the following from Lord John Russell is both remarkable and significant:— ...