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... contemporary to the proof. No doubt the Whigs have held up the Conservative party as the defenders of every abuse—the opponents of every reform—the advocates of despotism—the enemies of national progress! But this is only a Whig notion of Conservatism. The principles ...
... Hollow Pretensions of the Whigs.—What ■ore injurious to tbo Whig clique than any other v ttstrase is tbe tenacity with which, wbne the avowed ns progress, they cling the most effete traditions relating to themselves. Whigs lock upon Wbiggerj everlasting ...
... latter withdrawn, jo as to secure the greatest amount of Whig and »Vhig Radical support? How far could preicription be abolished, so as to procure the greatest oss to the Tories and the least to the Whigs; low far could progress be aided, so as to swell the ...
... the table of the House of Commons, and compel the Whigs to say either aye or no to its provisions. He has j had enough of Whig trimmings, and will have no more of it. The consequence is tbat tbe Whigs are in a sad fright, and they warn Mr. Bright that ...
... Conservative claims 7 0 Whig-Radical ditto 2 0 ! Freemen making their own claims.. 3 Conservative objections 2 Whig-Radical ditto 0 0 £10 HOUSEHOLDERS. Conservative claims 38 7 Whig-Radical ditto 69 14 Conservative objections 15 1 Whig-Radical ditto 11 4 SUMMARY ...
... from the Whig boroughs. In 1832, reform was cheap to those Whig maguates who declaimed against the rotten boroughs of that time, but now it the Whig boroughs which must be struck off the | parliamentary roll, and justly so, too. Herein lies the Whig diffidence ...
... , of course, that Lord Derby will offer them office; and that they know. But they will no longer let the Whigs have all their own way. The Whig families, as they long ago must have found out, and now own, are not of the people- They are the people ...
... Harrowbv, in favour of Lord Clanricarde but is not Whig virtue always rewarded Is not the Garter under Lord Harsiowby's knee a most undeniable proof of the fact ;hat subserviency to the chief is, in the Whig camp, :he most certain claim to the reward of ...
... which contains Sir John Pakiugton and Lord Stanley as from a Whig cabinet, which could not tolerate the presence of Lord John Russell, the greatest reformer that has borne the name of Whig for the last half century. ...
... THE HOPES OF THE SESSION ARE ALL BUT FLED. A Whig Lament. Air — The Flowers of the Forest. I've seen Pam laughing, the Derbyites chaffing, The Derbyites chaffing, so jaunty and gay ; Now the Whig Tapers low burn at Broadlands and Woburn, The Hopes ...
... mates us useless in the House of Commons, and must shortly bring us into contempt with the country; after noticing that the whig party itself is divided between two leaders, and that Lord Palmeriton had lost the confidence of a portion of the liberal party ...
... REFORM OR NO REFORM. Sib Gkokge Lewis, who is an influential mem- * ber of the Whig party, in his recent speech at ] Brighton, declared that the Reform Act of 1832 had worked well, and that the present House of Commons, upon all great questions and important ...