... ; that he will, in fact, welcome with satisfaction any scheme that offers a fair and proper adjustment, and so forth. The Whigs are attacked, the schemes of tbe Palmerston opposition are exposed, and the country is told to anticipate that the Government ...

... the fall of Patmerston, more was to be got in the way of Liberalism from the weakness of a Tory than from the insolence of a Whig Government ; and we suppose we ought to be grateful Yet, after all, we not only want in stitutions refor :.ed, but the Queen’s ...

... comparatively easy time of it. His control of the House of Lords enabled him to carry two measures which it is admitted the Whigs, for want of this control, could not have carried ; and, by delay, he conc liates teformers by the promise of a Reform Bill ...

... forgetful of that i npartislity and ju one who sat u; tice the snd dischsrged the bench No matter who held the belm of = they were Whigs, o ifavetions of G:vernment, whéther would be com: r, like the present men, Tories, things, but in the administration of the ...

... lost his seat, As to his imprisonment, and the abolition of the property quilification, he observes that what the plausible Whigs never thought of accomplish- ing, what the independent Liberals never could accom- plish, and what the Tories (had they been ...

... four-post and other besteads, with damask furniture, prime goose feather beds, horso-hair mattresses, and capital bedding, mahogany whig and other wardrobes, chcsLsof drawers, and the usual chamber requisites, eets mahogany dining tables, round ami mahogany 100 ...

... become suddenly Liberals, for such a violent change would be at variance with all experience. It took a long time for the Whigs to adapt themselves to the principles of partial demo- cracy ; and it is row more than five-and-twenty years since the Tories ...

... crowd, not a party— a crotchetty set of conceited individuals, each busy and fussy, feeble and helpless—so treated by the ‘Whigs that they hail the advent of the Torics, refusing to accept any leadership, or to adopt any organisation ; and accordingly ...

... Parliamentary calculation to anti- cipate that such a stratagem will be successful. Whatever the Conservatives propose, the Whigs may at any time defeat them by bidding higher.” But they must bid very much higher to regain the confidence they have partially ...