... Commons. The Conservatives declare themselves seady to undertake the government if invited by her Majesty to do so. The moderate Whigs prefer a reconstruction, the principal features of which appear the exclusion of Lord Russell and Mr. Gladstone. and the shelving ...

... offered to us, and wo must make our selection. Some people there is difference now between Whig and Tory. Well. I don't believe that, though thoro are some Whigs very like some Tories ; but in tho two candidates that are now offered you there is a wide ...

... Foreign Minister by a brilliant speech on the affairs of Portugal. In the November following he became Foreign Secretary in the Whig Ministry which was then formed, and he has since been a prominent leader of the Liberal party. He resigned of course when Sir ...

... face of the fair transatlantic harlot. Professor Blackie adverted to the situation of our own country. He believed that the Whig Government had been borne along a current which they ought to have controlled, and had submitted to dictation which thev ought ...

... and decide: cessible to any ions—frank and open in In politics he One, and altogether free inet the liberal interest on was a Whig—a firm supporter he communion of the all occasions. As a member of the co form- valued highly the regular perform Church of ...

... attribute his apparent neglect of the younger Liberals mainly to this cause. He was | virtually the head of two parties, the Whigs and the Peelites, each containing many powerful candidates for office, and was not altogether free to set aside their claims ...

... measure of their tendencies and aspirations. Having quitted tho ranks of tho Tory party in 1828, he passed over to that of tho Whigs without entirely giving himself up to them, but preserving sufficient affinity with his old allies to enable thom, in his latter ...

... business you have taken in hand the Reform league having obtained almost all they asked for, and even more than the moderate Whigs sought. To that he would answer that their duty now was to see the Pill through the House of Lords, that it receives the royal ...

... at two years. That point determined, they might leave the Whigs to settlo the rest. Settle it they must, or their party would settled; and with only year's residence the annihilation of the Whigs was certain. Mr. F. S. Powell, m.p. in the course of a speech ...

... tabled. The two millions which, it is whispered, the govern- ment promise us will not satisfy our indignant representatives. Whig, tory, and radical will be at one on the question, and if we obtain five in- stead of two, we will hardly be able to believe ...

... the benches, it was impossible for independent members to find seats without trenching on the space apportioned custom to Whigs, Tories, or Radicals. The vote was agreed to after further discussion, as also were the following:—British Embassy Houses at ...

... change Government this question would Ik> grappled with with the force which necessary. There are among the leading men of the Whig party men who have fair sentiments with regard to Ireland, but who, whenever they treat of this question, are afraid of dealing ...