... responsibility, he would have abandoned all his impracticable schemes, and been of admirable service to sound legislation. Had the Whigs invited him to high and honourable office, they would not really have endured more of Tory taunting than was measured out to ...

... office three years the face of sinking majorities, and against his Lordship's wishes, for the sole purpose ot keeping out the Whigs, whom he regarded with a feeling of bitter aversion. So deeply was this feeling rooted in his Majesty's mind, that when junction ...

... then Solicitor-Gen eral. j As Lord Fullerton had all along been a firm, consistent, though not a forward supporter of the Whig principles, his appointment in common with that of Cranstoun previously, and of MoncriefT subsequently, did great credit to ...

... Treisury, brought to its rival powers. By some fatality all tie wits in London have been Whigs for the last hundred years —all the showy wr.ters have dipped their wings n Whig libations; even all the brilliancy of fashion, and the grace of manners, have glittered ...

... hearing stated (I t had had communication from an authorised I *** .0f i, Whigs to the effect that, if the Irish members assist in ejecting Lord Derby's Government, they i (the Whigs) would not impose an Income Tax upon Ireland. This statement, coupled with ...

... his Stuart blood through the Lennox family.* There is the Charley Fox' of White's and Almacks—the 'Mr Fox' of aristocratic Whig coteries—the ' Fox' of history's page _ * While our statesman, with something like bustling activity, makes fresh notes his ...

... points has been happily preserved and exemplified. The beginning was courtesy • the end, entire cordiality. Hie compiexiouui of Whigs and Peelites are now unknown. Statesmen, entitled by their talents and experience to be the principal Ministers of State, accepted ...

... ac nonsense about the ex- Home Secretary, as is supposed certain wiseacres who reject the Reform explanation. The Juvenile Whig much too old a stager to play any game of that sort, for the simple reason that it is wholly unnecessary, and will be played ...

... loyal urged Sovereigns to reply to these manifestoes with grape only arguments with which revolutionists should treated. The Whigs said was not necessary, merely ry faction not power takes tho opposite side of ? question from the one that is but when they ...

... in thinning the House. Have we got them ? This is no party question. The investigation which we suggest is one in which Whigs, Tories, and Radicals may, with equal interest and profit, and with perfect harmony, engage. It is as unsectarian as the basis ...

... for other purposes, brought into the House of Commons by the Lord Advocate lind tho Hon. Francis Scott, has been printed. ' Whig and Tort changing Sides.—Fox and Pitt.—Mr Fox maintained that France was the natural enemy of England, and that it was useless ...

... been ever struggling— in one word, its idea. With the .exemption, however, of this House of Commons ''ant, whereof the Whigs, even more than the Tories, have aickened the public who seek for meaning words, there much of valuable suggestion the article ...