... behind its members hose members would not have force enough to compel the whole Tory party and a few leading members of the Whig Government to pass the measure. He was quite ready to do his share, although it was not pleasant to know that everybody the ...

... stand thus: —Liberal papers, 50; Conservative, 17 ; Independent, 20 ; Neuter, 128. distinction is here made between Liberal and Whig, or Liberal and Radical; nor between Conservative and Liberal Conservative or Tory. Newspaper Births and Deaths during 1800 ...

... (Laughter.) You Whigs have had power since 1832. You pledged yourselves to economy and retrenchment, but have never seen you carry it out. The expenditure in 1836 amounted to little more than £40,000,000 a year; but what it now You Whigs have made a great ...

... anxious to consolidate their own ranks, and to be assured of a majority before they make another experiment upon office. The Whigs are of course contented ; the formidable old Irish Brigade has dwindled to the solitary, though imposing, personality of Mr ...

... state of parties in this country. I look, above all, with deep regret and deep concern npon the position of that once great Whig party, which, while it was honoured by the names of Grey, and Brougham, and Macintosh, I deemed it an honour to helong to. ...

... public career in the Lower House, voted on all occasions with the Whig party, and, although unfrequent speaker in the House of Peers, invariably supported the views and measures of the Whig Governments. On the death of his father, in October, 1839, he succeeded ...

... he made his great forensic speech for the defendant in the celebrated case of Norton Lord Melbourne. On the return of the Whig party to office, in June, 1846, after the resignation of the late Sir Robert Peel, Lord Campbell joined the cabinet and was ...

... the traitors deceived ! In the North all old party feelings are now forgotten. There are no Republicans, no Democrats, no Whigs—all are for Union, now and for ever—eager to vindicate the honour of the flag under which they and their ancestors have achieved ...

... Tories, or Conservatives, they are now called, being the ' outs,' take advantage of the times to embarass the Liberals or Whigs, who are the ins,' and to drive them to war with the United States. The cotton spinners, looking to their own interests, are ...

... pnest-vicars, and the whole of the choir proceeded to tbe chapter room and formed procession. The dean was then conducted to the Whig stall the Cathederal by the Rev. Chancellor Harington and the Venerable Archdeacon Bartholomew, aft er which the prescribed ...

... Peers' House, and we Will make Willy Cubitt our City's M.P.! Come fill our cup, come fill up our can ! Despair, ye false Whigs, ye'll ne'er carry your man! Keep all your eyes open, ye'll see what ye'll see : Old London's Lord Mayor shall be London's ...

... Ministerial Whitebait. It was not political, though it began with Tories, but, as a party, they had nothing to do with it. The Whigs have no claim to the invention. Radical Reformers at its birth were unknown. If Lord John be a Radical or a Reformer the merit ...