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... THE WHIGS AND THE REFORM BILL. THE Whigs are again trifling with the country on the question of Reform. Instead of making it the first business of the session, they postpone it for a month, and thus make it necessary that other questions shall take precedence ...
... are the natural result of a Cabinet formed, as the Whigs once themselves expressed it, on the principle of counteraction —in which either a series of meaningless compromises must be foisted on the public, or every member take it in turn to sacrifice ...
... There has been much talk of a consolidation of the statutes; when shall we have a consolidation of Whig anecdotes? A Holland-house Joe Miller, bringing up all the dinner-talk of that party to the present date, is greatly needed. Such a work, forming a ...
... Twenty-five Whig peers, including Lord SHAFTESBURY, voted in the majority condemnatory of Mr. GLAnscroNE's Budget. It is very difficult to believe that this strong vote in the Lords was really disapproved by Lord .PALNIERSTON. The filet that Lord SHAFTESBURY ...
... seeing the Whigs likened to Temple-bar— ancient, venerable, and once useful as a harrier against kingly encroachments, but now simply au intolerable obstruction to business ; —this seems to be Shirley's view also. Concerning Scylla and Charybdis, ...
... Adam Bede. Louis NAPOLEON says the Tories did it. The Times can't allow that, but claims the honour for the Whigs. And now in turn a ducal Whig repudiates the compliment with scorn, and hurls back the charge upon the Tories and the penny a liners, including ...
... ruse, devised for the purpose of preventing the Conservatives from outbidding the Whigs in their offers. And no sooner did the Conservative Reform Bill appear, tha the Whigs reversed their tactics, and voted against the Bill on the plea that it did not go ...
... and 46 Whigs ; from cities and boroughs 9 Conservatives and 32 Whigs, —giving a total at that period of 27 Conservatives and 78 Whigs, or a majority of 51 to the latter. In 1860 there are returned from Irish counties 33 Conservatives and 31 Whigs ; from ...
... seldom that the Whig journals direct attention to the judicial appointments in Ireland, but an applauding article was lately ventured upon in regard to the promotion of Mr. J. D. FITZGERALD to the Bench. It is somewhat remarkable that the Whig press should ...
... Legislature which enables their weight to be felt, the Whigs have innocently discovered that the age of party is defunct. Of course the two things have nothing to do with one another. That the Whigs should have lighted on this great truth just at the particular ...
... House which the Whigs may gain to their side by new acts of gracious self-abnegation. Coalition has done its utmost ; and now that the Conservative party numbers nearly one-half of the House, and is being steadily reinforced, the Whig chiefs may well ...
... Protestant here. It is thus that ho keeps together the Coalition Ministry, as the only barrier against the disruption of the Whig party, and their absorption into the two other parties in the State. This adroit and unscrupulous game, however, cannot be ...