... pursuing our present course. The struggle for party ascendency isthe curse of the nation. We are tossed about by rival factions. Whigs and Tories prey upon us and consume us. But the fault is ours. We range oursclves under their banners. We re-echo their cries ...

... power’’ to defeat the second reading, but there is also reason to believe that will carry with him the votes of some of his old Whig friends. Gloomy predictions respecting the probable result of the coming division are current, and it is regarded tolerably ...

... in his hands. Councillor Winstanley seconded the resolution. He remembered that on one occasion Lord Derby stigmatised the Whig government as a thimblerigging government, but he thought if ever there was an attempt at thimble-rigging in either house of ...

... with much greater carnestuess and zeal. But the fact is that it never was meant for use. It was only got up for show. The Whigs live upon the credulity of the people. They feed them with promises which are never fulfilled, and fleece them while they are ...

... be the fault of the upper house of legislature if they, an act of political suicide at the bidding of political Hotspurs and Whig placemen, forfeited that high and com manding position which they had ever filled in the councils of the nation. He had read ...

... people are becoming of all mere party politics, and with what composure and indifference they can allow the fag end of the Whig faction to unite with the vanguard of democracy to make speeches in town halls and sign petitions under the name of the people ...

... power of Conservatism disagrecably surprising to sealous reformers. The insincerity cf the hustings professions of the pure Whigs, if there be any such, has become patent, and is no longer attempted to be concealed. The duplicity and effrentery of the 7imes ...

... against the repeal; it fears the competition of the cheap press. The lories are against the repeal, a number of disappointed Whigs are against the repeal, and one publisher of cheap books also, yet none of these pa ties have been able to produce single argument ...

... here among the shipbuilders and merchants, chiefly on account of the fact being one more link in the chain of evidence against Whig appointments, contracts, and all other matters of business in our maritime affairs. 'We have not forgotten, at present, that ...

... The house being divided in that manner, you observe further that a number of men on our side, atid who ski ootuiderid «f (he Whig part?, here voted with the minority. They made that minority large, and our majority smaller; and they gave some conndsndd ...

... packet service amount to nearly a million per year, while the revenue, as stated by the Post Office, is only £393,600. Both Whig nnd‘ Conservative governments have been engaged in the mismanagemr:at of mail conttacts; sad mapy have STALYBRIDGE TOWN COUNCIL ...

... their own power. If the Tories are out, they take care to do nothing to injure themselves when they next get in ; and the Whigs are equally cautious. Hence their unanimity in resisting the people, whom they recognise as their common foe. There are a few ...