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THE TORIES STEALING THE CLOTHES OF THE WHIGS

... OF THE WHIGS. One of the best things Disraeli said in his attacks on Sir Robert Peel was that Sir Robert caught the Whigs bathing and ran away with their clothes. That applied to his coming out for the total repeal of the com laws when the Whigs were stickling ...

Published: Saturday 06 March 1858
Newspaper: Dundee People's Journal
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 817 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

KIRRIEMUIR

... whole people, electors and non-electors, with a few individual exceptions, being Whigs ; not the Conservative truckling Whigs of the present day, but staunch uncompromising Whigs, battling for the then now much needed measures of reform, watching jealous care ...

THE NEW AND THE OLD MINISTRIES

... Liberal party has had no such good fortune. Its constitution does not admit of it. It is organised like some Eastern race. The Whigs are its Levites, its Brahmins, the hereditary possessors of all knowledge and the guardians all mysteries. They have their ...

CORRESPONDENCE ON THE REFUGEE QUESTION

... obstructive policy. The people are satisfied that they have nothing to expect from the faithless and corrupt incapacity of the Whigs, while they have everything to hope from the Conservatives. Lord Derby wisely and encouragingly stated that his performances ...

Political Extracts

... not inaugurate it. In 1853 they resigned office rather than carry on Government subject to the dictation of others, as the Whigs had earried it on before them. To this indignity they will not submit new any more than they submitted to it then. But Government ...

Published: Wednesday 03 March 1858
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1525 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A TORY REFORM BILL PROMISED

... A TORY REFORM BILL PROMISED. The Tories are really to bid against the Whigs for popular favour! The new Attorney-General, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, has announced that he is opposed to Lord Palmerston's Alien Bill not only because it is sham, but because it invades ...

OUR CHANNEL FLEET

... well what is going on in France itself, depicted in the valuable letters we transfer to-day from the Continental Review. A Whig nobleman has been compelled to leave Paris because his lady has received in her drawing room the most distinguished men of ...

Dundee Courier

... Liberal party has had no such good fortune. Its constitution does not admit of it. is organised like some Eastern race. The Whigs are its Levites, its Brahmins, the hereditary possessors of all knowledge, and the guardians of all mysteries. They have their ...

Published: Wednesday 03 March 1858
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1446 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE NEW MINISTERS AND THEIR REFORM BILL

... opinion that it was quite right to disfranchise all the small Tory boroughs, and to keep up others for the special benefit of the Whig aristocracy. (Renewed cheers.) Entertaining those sentiments, I see no reason why I, in conjunction with my colleagues, should ...

HOUSE OF COMMONS

... National Education. to the Reform Bill he had no confidence in the promise s of those who described the present Act a series of Whig jobs. That reproach was totally unjust and unfounded, besides it was proposed by Cabinet of which Lord Derby is a Minister ...

Published: Wednesday 17 March 1858
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4056 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Literature

... Russia and France had both been alienated, and our relations with the other continental powers were not more satisfactory. The Whigs, as frequently happens, had also left behind them a diminished exchequer, and wide-prevailing distress, particularly in the ...

Published: Wednesday 17 March 1858
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2035 | Page: 2 | Tags: none