... Tory scheme of electoral change. Large and liberal promises were held out vaguely of concessions to popular worth and loyalty. Whig biddings were characterised as niggardly and narrow, and even Radical proposals were stigmatised as wanting in comprehensiveness ...

... reason why they should not sit on the same Treasury benches with the remains of Peelites and the sons or sons- in-hvsv of whigs. Lord John's speech and resolution was followed by Lord Stanley, who rises in the esteem of the house. Pity it is that his ...

... believe that the statement which appeared in one of our contemporaries -to the effect that a meeting of the heads of the old whig party was held on Saturday in reference to the course to be taken with regard to the Reform Bill—is without any foundation ...

... of his family. In this respect wings and tories are tarred with the same brush. It was merciful that no one retorted on the whigs their appointment to an American consulship of great value and importance, quoting Churchill- And now this H. upon my life ...

... of May. A Canadian paper advertises for an editor, ener- getic, independent, honest, and unprejudiced, at which the Montreal Whig becomes very merry, and states that when such an individual is found, a fortune can be made by carrying him round for exhibition ...

... evi- dence, was something which did not appear in the amendment and was not recognised in the speech of Lord John, which no whig government would pro- pose, and no government of any complexion hope to carry. Reviewing the provisions of the measure, the ...