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... OF THE JOURNALS. LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND THE REFORM BILL. ( Frost the Press.) Lord John Russell has staked the fortunes of the Whig party, and his own fame, one remodelling of the llouse of Commons. He has done this after deep thought and long calcu:ation ...
... confidence of the Crown. The object of the minority-representation clause, he said, was to give the Whigs some of the forty-six new county seats; but Whig county members were of a class that only put a drag on Liberal Government, as much so as if they were ...
... too politically profligate to escape reprobation. I You say you are neither Whig nor Tory, and, for once in I your life, you speak the truth. But you were a Tory and you bee n Whig, and you are now a placeman ; and you would hold that place of yours as readily ...
... the strongest language which could easily proceed from human lips ; and I said that whenever a coalition was formed between Whigs and Tories, Mr Keogh would accept the place of Solicitor-General for Ireland. Giffard, editor of the Standard, was examined ...
... urged to proceed by the Whigs and Conservatives, upon dividing the Tories and securing the Radicals at the same time • but the unlucky event occurred of a firm combination Of Tories, and a split among their own friends the Whigs and Peelites, to say nothing ...
... party leader. . . This is a mistake. It were no unworthy distinction to • niche in history as the last and greatest of the Whigs; and that distinction Lord John Russell will achieve. But be has the integrity and courage of a true statesman, as well u the ...
... Ellice.—We have been pained to find the Latne of this excellent and upright legislator freely associated with the body of Whig malcontents who conspired to stop the new Reform bill. It has been fastened upon in this connection by several of those persons ...
... in a new ceastitnency to redress the truckling, time serving, shuffling polio of the old. (Applause.) They must be neither Whig nor Tory when the strnegle came; then only eonsideratiou should turn upon the question, Protestant or not. At this stage of ...
... The week has been singularly interesting for Ministers. Both parties in that august conclave have put their foot in it, the 'Whig-radical ingredient, as aforesaid, and the Couservative element, as fellows. Lord Aberdeen being asked by Lord Derby by what ...