... that the Whigs, when Sir Hexey Rawlissos left them in the lurch, never for a moment thought of supplying the place of a Whig with a Whig, though, perhaps, it might have been more agreeable if the “leader of the Liberal party” and the Whig faction had ...

... Westminster. The Conservatives are not as united could be wished; but tho Whig- Radical allies are hopelessly divided. The ultra- Liberals have thrown off their allegiance to the Whigs, and the accession of Lord Derby simply a question of months, so wearied ...

... reply to it, we may furnish the reply ourselves, and say that Sir Henry is Whig. He is the nominee of Whig ; those who were foremost in introducing him to the constituency are Whigs ; and, if he should ever represent Frome, though he may be as jaunty and ...

... mention made the Whig borough of Shaftesbury. Why has honest Mr. Gladstone—who so detests, if we are to believe him, pocket boroughs —omitted to group this place with others? I suppose such men as Mr. Bright call this an honest Whig scheme. Borough Police ...

... ? The Whig flame is on the point of dying ont for the want fneL If Lord Palmerston were to retire suddenly from public life, a Liberal ministry would find it difficult to hold their own in the House of Commons. There is no school of rising Whig statesmen ...

... pledges; he can elevate a faction to power on the strength ot pledges similarly prodigal; he can listen to the surrender of Whig principles while keeping his own in solution ; he can sit through six or seven years of patient contempt on the part of Ministers ...

... petition in favour the Government Refjrm Bill#. The absence of the leading members of the Whig parly gave riie to a suspicion which was expressed Mr. M'Laren, that the Whigs were not favourable lieforiD. This stung Advocate, whose reply was unsatisfactory as ...

... during the last six years, have studiously abstained from all practices that could giv° rise to imputations of corruption, the Whigs and Radicals have acted the time-honoured advice 10 put money in their purse with unusual zeal and energy ; and have spent ...

... quoting from a return which had wrung from Government: they were Peter Erie, Q C., a Whig, salary £1,500; James Hill, Q. 0., Whig’ salary, £1,200; Rev. R. Jones. Whig, salary £1,200. had nothing to say against those gentlemen as to their admitted resp ...

... circles that it was determined in the great Whig divan get rid of Disraeli at any sacrifice. Mordecai at the King's gate was not hateful to as Mr Disraeli, basking in the sunshine of the Court, was to the Whig aristocracy. The Irish Churchy question was ...

... revision at Devonport seems to have terminated m a 'Conservative triumph. Of 221 Whigs objected by Conservatives 142 were off; of Conservatives objected to by Whigs none we™ struck off. The Conaervativ® gain in 42, and at Stone-howo m Devonport ...

... beefeaters of Radicalism, who have, thniugh the necessities of the past elections, iu small Whig and Radical boroughs, been, by the influence of their M.P.•s and Whig Governments, thrust into all branches of the Civil services as thickly as they could be ...