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... e, V are Whiff boroughs, owned by leading Whig j, and it is to my mind very doubtful if the Tories y wielded those properties more corruptly than have. That every man has his price is a tr f j$ the Whig camp, the author of the phrase of the first ...
... THE MINISTRY AND THE COUNTRY. It has often been remarked of the Whig Government, that its performances bear so slight a resemblance to its promises before getting office as to perplex even friends to recognise the same parties their altered position. ...
... more bestir themselves. They are ready enough to eomplain, and with justice, perhaps, of the neglect of Governments—whether Whig or Tory—and of the railway interests ; but this is a question which it is in their own power to solve. The Dock property and ...
... Several advanced Liberals, unconnected with the Whig coterie, might fairly expect to hold office such Administration. A place the Cabinet could not be refused to John Bright. Nothing improves pure Whig so much as temporary absence from official life. ...
... country. Apropos of Dublin Castle—Lord Carlisle is the last Lord- Lieutenant, or, to speak with more certainty, tbe very last Whig Viceroy you will have in Ireland. This you may take for granted. It is just possible, if the Tories come into office, that ...
... their wishes and instructions. Very amusing, too, is the way in which they deal with each other's claims and pretensions. Your Whig journalist is ever making a wonderful gain—so wonderful as to excite surprise at any chance being left for his opponent to ...
... into an enunciation of the sapient and genial proposition that the friends of Italian liberty ought to be discouraged as Whigs. Yet we must not forget that this septuagenarian dictatorship has its disadvantages. Lord Palmerston, though his physical ...
... in demands a better state of things. Let us have a Registration Court which shall be wholly neutral ground; independently of Whig or Tory influence, let each one's merits to vote a burgess or freeman be fairly, honourably tested, without prejudice ; a certain ...
... politics interfering with the choice of civic representatives. have been unable to understand the difference of a rate levied by Whig or Tory, and still more puzzled to discover a difference in the expenditure of either party. We should be sorry, indeed, to ...
... I am allowed so to speak —when I say that what would conciliate all parties in the state. I believe—whether they be called Whigs, or Tories, or Radicals —all would agree that no benefit could be given to the people of this country which ought to be more ...
... progress of events that it is difficult to find the line of demarcation between those parties bearing different denominations. Whigs and Tories are spoken of as defunct races, and their successors are supposed to have buried the most prolific subjects of ...
... lordship next gave his services to Greece, and was employed in that country from 1827 to 1828. In 1830, on the accession of the Whigs to office, under King William IV., Lord Dnndonald was reinstated in his rank in the British Navy from feeling that he had been ...