... country, and mainly under the patronage of tbe Whigs, what may not inaptly be designated a mali* cious kind of political Jackdawism. Tbis mean and meretricious vice has culminated and collapsed by turns. The Whigs and their supporters in the press have had ...

... 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. ...

... they were soon superseded. In the good old times, a Whig Ministry, pure and simple, would have succeeded them ; hut it waa not so on thit occasion. A coalition Ministry was formed, composed of old Whigs and old Tories, on the broad basis of Liberal-Conservatism ...

... cause of energy in others; yet, from want of will or power, he failed to deviate from tbe hereditary traditions of the old Whig party. What would not the liberal cause have gained, exclaims «ur contemporary, bad any premier bad the courage and the ...

... distrust that annihilated the one will avert the other. Still will the Liberals be divided into the moderate and extreme, the Whigs and Radicals hut in their united action the man to whose claims they will naturally defer, and who will resume his place as ...

... supported the Whigs, and by Sir James Graham, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Sidney Herbert. The Radical party held aloof, and soon the Peelite trio broke from their allegiance. Since then Lord Palmerston has been content to preside over the old Whig priesthood ...

... wu- - ,ner Gibson's amendment which overturned the Whig Ministry was in the handwriting of Lord John ttussell. It was in the possession of the late administration, and the treaohery of the ex-Whig leader was so mnch felt that all its members bound themselves ...

... a way not entir now. ai that there was her ef tha althoegh its provementnf thl and mere outlets power tcheeW• or eisht ran whig patty, ish asnommed his i that moment I Wed from the time I ha wpm Imeribir ' 1 and ta it is Awcaelosed by ' pear —we have ...

... more closely than is usually done. That the honour of England is at least as safe in the bands of a Tory Government as of a Whig, or, at any rate, a Palmerston Government, will not admit of much doubt. Except through the very common error which makes people ...

... we regard parliamentary parties, the conservatives can show a better front than any single section of their opponents. The whigs are in a state of solution, and totally gw.iwu of resources for the construction of a strong government. The radicils and Peelites ...

... national education. As to the reform bill, he had confidence) in the promise of those who described the present act as a series Whig jobs. That reproach was totally unjnst and unfounded; besides it was proposed by a cabinet of which Lord Derby was a member ...