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... took advantage of their confidence more effectually to retard their designs. THE WHIGS AND THEIR BOROUGHS. IN case a New Reform Bill should be really presented by the Whigs, it will be necessary to observe closely their treatment of their own boroughs ...
... issue of the contest at Leitrim, it is of no cocsequence at ali, now that Mr. Ormsby Gore is not a candidate. Mr. Tenison is a Whig ; Dr. Brady is just what Mr. Hayter wants him to be for the nonce; and Mr. Montgomery is a staunch and valiant Conservative ...
... much respect to General opinion. His family has in later years been decidedly Whig, though his eminent relative, the late brilliant orator, hovered doubtfully between Whigs and Tories, and, as was remarked of him, used diamond-scales in forming his de ...
... Liberal party, or, in deference to my hon. colleague (Mr. Cavendish t, will say the Whigs—(a laugh)—against the lose boroughs of the Tories, and the people, acting with the Whigs, said, This is a most infamous system, and we will put an end to it, Well, ...
... 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 ...
... Irishmen say, and so is now happily exclia , d from any immediate prospect of senatorial honours. Mr. J. P. Somers fights the Whig battle over again ; but his success over such a Iran as ISt:. Nune wuuld astonish no one more than himself. There is a good ...
... OSBORNE said that the reason the little pigs lie with their backs quite bare was—everybody knew why ; and the reason the little Whigs lie, and say they want a Reform Bill, was equally patent. He did not know that anything was the matter with the constitution ...
... altered, destruction seems to have overtaken those anomalous connections which stood aloof from the discipline of Party. The Whigs were united in 1832 ith the followers of Sir ROBERT PEEL, the Manchester politicians, and the Irish Brigade ; and it is remarkable ...
... of in a letter by Mr. BAINES, who asserts that he never was better in his life. The truth is, that Mr. BAINES is too pure a Whig to quite suit Lord PALMERSTON'S taste. Mr. DENISON is a Liberal after his own heart. He has always opposed the Ballot, and ...
... energy, and all to no avail. It is said that two hundred barristers were influenced by certain persons. The mere fact that the Whigs would consent to yoke the son of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland along with one of the chiefs of the Brass Band shows the ...
... Government of Sir ROBERT PEEL was to rescue the national finances from the deplorable confusion into which a long course of Whig bungling had plunged them, to establish a surplus revenue, and to give greater freedom to connnerce. Unfortunately, Sir ROBERT ...
... 351 energy and his appetite for political power are by no means diminished. What will be the conduct of so distinguished a Whig in the coming session ? That is a question which naturally possesses considerable interest. It is now twenty-three years since ...