... are of the utmost importance. National character is of more value than any positive institution whatever. When some of the Whigs in 1809 praised the measures of NAPOLEON in Spain, as tending to civilise that retrograde country, a Conservative statesman ...

... British blunders in India. Possibly on the new Reform Bill of the Whigs the opinions of the new peer will be of more weight and importance ; and although a strong partisan of the Whigs, there are large elements of Conservatism in the views of Mr. MAC ...

... be forgotten that the agitation against the House of Lords in 1836 and 1N37 completely failed, and did much injury to the Whigs and Radicals. It is exaggeration also to assert that the power of legislation the Peers have lost on all subjects about ...

... people. This latter assertion is too strong. Sir It. PEEL brought the Funds up to par, and repaired the gross blunders of the Whig Government; and, in eventful times, he was the first debater in Parliament. His leadership of the Conservatives from 1833 to ...

... voters will be subjected to the control of the Priest, as the Reform Bill of England placed the people under the yoke of the Whigs ; and next in succession will be promulgated a law to curb the liberty of the press and establish a Jesuit censorship. This ...

... not justify. LORD PALMERSTON IN A NEW PART. THE world has seen Lord PALMERSTON in many characters—Tory, Whig, Liberal, Coalitionist, and now Whig again. Whoever else might come uppermost, he has contrived to float on the surface of affairs so long as ...

... other days were slowly rewarded. Lord RODNEY won his glorious victory over the Count DE GRASSE at the time when the incoming Whig Ministry in 1782 had sent forth orders for superseding him ; and after a life of brilliant services he was allowed to die in ...

... he also said that the best system of suffrage was that in which the greatest number of free wills would be found. The Whig leader, if he lived in our times, would see troops of voters marching to the hustings in Lambeth and Finsbury, and he might ...

... the command of the Prime Minister :ILIIOW . compelled violent, Ahey.might With himself matures. Minis of talent .4epen,_ _ Whig and young place-hunters crowd the Ministerial 'benches to the exclusion of every man of high reputation or signal promise. ...

... Fairfax and Algernon Sidney, both men of no ordinary spirit, and each endowed with great though different kinds of ability. The Whig party, if their great leaders are to be heard on the point, could never give their approval to the man who indecently vilified ...

... CLAREsnox is feeble in health, and is a professional statesman, without great Whig connexions. Lord GRANVILLE is certainly not fitted for a leader. Even the Stafford-house Whigs would not choose the Duke of ARGYLL., who is beginning to subside. In rising ...

... THE PRESS. THE NEWEST WHIG GUIDE. Believe me, trail those endeai tog young charms. Winch I gaze on so loudly to day, So.—Tor Mooas. Relieve me, when all those ridiculous aiiw, Which you practise so pretty to-day, he.—Loan Believe me, when all that ...