... opponents. Tories wish the Crown to exercise real power— Whigs, delegated power. The one would have the king govern through hia ministers, the other would have the ministers govern through the king. The Whig notion of royal authority reminds one of the cloud ...

... one of Lydia White’s small and most agreeable dinners, in Park Street, the company (most of them, except the hostess, being Whigs) were disenasing, in rather querulous strain, the desperate prospects of their party. Ye'*,’ said Sydney Smith, we are in most ...

... hear.) In former time*— fifty years ago—l don’t think that more than one question would have been put in®—viz., Are you a Whig or are you a Tory? and the answer would have been quite enough. is rather different now. There a great improvement m this country ...

... all the practised speakers who wen- opposed him, I don't tliiiik that, tried by that single test, there was a man even on the Whig side of the hustings, who would not iu his conscience own that it was most creditable one. (Cheers.) And. although have not ...

... to rash into collision with the Crown. He (Lord Brougham) was quite surprised to hear such arguments from any lawyer, from Whig lawyer. ( Hear, and laugh.) He did not deny the competency of House to call the Judges, hot contended that to do in the present ...

... Mr Brown Douglas to the electors, and said that no objection had been raised to the consistency of the Conservatives by the Whig party, when Conservatives split their votes in with Mr Macaulay and Mr Bruce, and when split their votes with Mr Cowan. If ...