... the opposition scale against any ministry upon any question. When the Conservatives are in office they role with the Whigs when the Whigs are office they vote with the Conservatives. ...

... Know- Nothings with portion of the Southern conservatives ; and the Republicans comprise the chief part of the old Northern Whigs, the great body of anti-slavery Know-Nothings, the independent Democrats, and, scarcely acknowledged, the scattered forces ...

... fine language, varied reasoning, and vast reading. His absence from the House of Commona leaves blank the Whig party. Where now there single Whig of any genius in Parliament ? It is with pride that the Conservatives can point to the rare endowments and ...

... thirty thous-md regular troops, sixteen thousand police, and the Orangemen of Ulster, with Lord Enniskillen at their head. The Whigs wanted a Foreign Secretary Lord Granville had not tho talents for tho office; circumstances had rendered Lord Palmerston mid ...

... mere Quixotism to risk lance against it. The very fanaticism of the Abolitionists conspired to give it strength. When the Whigs, after vainly attempting to find a party cry in such questions Free Trade—attempts always nullified by the blighting compact ...

... and are not at the ssme time the picked men of many sections, Lord Aberdeen and hi* colleagues were. Predominantly of the Whig aristocratic class, they leave nut such men as Lord John Russell and Karl Grey ; and though see no probability, and certainly ...

... out of snch coarse elements that the Whig oligarchy retains its rule. means of some rotten boroughs (like Peterborough. Caine, ami such places), and by the territorial influence some overgrown proprietary, the Whigs can muster of their own faction about ...

... condition, savouring of the sere and yellow leaf,” has excited feelings of anxious solicitude among hia Whig admirers. There are lofty individuals among the Whigs, who abstain from the troubles and anxieties of official life, partly from indolence, and partly ...

... quitting the Queen's service, after having held office for so many years under Whig Ministor. We believe the next session will, however, solve the mystery, and the quondam Whig Comptroller of the Household, having succeeded to the peerage and become Marquess ...

... fastened to tiiem.” Kxpluin the origin of t'tewords•• •• Tory,” and examine the tiutli Swii't's by cousidering the principles of Whig and Tory pirties from the per'md fixed bim, down tlio year 1775. Why the age of Elizabeth regarded era in English history? ...

... see Ireland raised, or the empire rescued from the portentous evil of degenerate class of senators, who, in the opinion of Whig cabinets, are to be sustained and tolerated the Lazzaroni of Liberalism. That the “popular” representatives of Ireland in the ...

... relations of ConMyratircs and Liberals towards each other, and also the public opinion of the country, must again studied. The Whigs and Radicals already are preparing assume their favourite position of aggression against the Constitution. As yet. they have ...