... enthusiasm, have no real inten- 'y tion to satisfy the expectations which their own public declarations have created. b h The Whigs have been accused of a great many I sins, but never of deliberate political suicide. ks They are, on the contrary, blamed for ...

... eyes of the world. Mr. Peacocke attributed the corruption of the administrative system to the long monopoly of office by a few Whig fami- lies. Mr. Gladstone agreed with Mr. Layard on I the abstract principle, but he could not accept the motion. He anticipated ...

... establishment of an absolute g, do despotism. At the same time the people had this excuse, g is that for the last 20 years the Whigs had retained all con- 8i DU splcuous offices in the hands of a few sacred families, and p had thus contributed to sour and ...