... progress of the Whigs since their complete and apparently permanent settlement in power by the first election under the Reform Bill. The years 1831 and 1832 were years of transition. After the ever-memorable election in the spring of 1831 the Whigs had, indeed ...

... finance of the Whigs in his days was a bye' word, and it was the misfortune of Lord Monteagle, then Mr. Spring-Rice, to have been Chancellor of the Exchequer for about half those ten years when, after the passing of the Reform Bill, th e Whigs were on their ...

... of that conviviality for which the Whigs were distinguished. Le Whig est la femme de votre Gouvernement, says Balzac, and the truth of the remark is especially illustrated in that social influence which the Whigs have always cultivated more than the ...

... scribed and discriminated. While admitting, of course, Macaulay's great Whig predelictions, Mr Kebbel remarks that nature had intended him for a Conservative, but accident had made him a Whig, premising that his (Macaulay's) political principles were almost ...

... of that conviviality for which the Whigs were distinguished. Le Whig est la femme de votre Gouvernement, says Balzac, and the truth of the remark is especially illustrated in that social influence which the Whigs have always cultivated more than the ...

... prominent among their claims on the respect and regard of the people, is a piece of suicidal folly hardly to be anticipated. The Whigs have given the country only too much reason to distrust their professions of patriotism and liberality. Seven years' tenure ...

... such an advanced Radical, but because the Whig-Radicals having had the representation in their hands ever since Manchester was created a borough they would prefer a change in any direction to none at all. The Whigs and Conservatives who united to return ...

... domestic legislation with which successive Tory Governments hal been identified was essentially due to the Whigs. The condition of Tories and Whigs uncle/ Canning marks an epoch in the Parliamentary history of the country. It was not the first great coalition ...

... such an advanced Radical, but because the Whig-Radicals having had the representation in their hands ever since Manchester was created a borough they would prefer a change in any direction to none at all. The Whigs and Conservatives who united to return ...

... position ; and that had they changed places with the Whigs, the latter, even with such men as Sydney Smith and Thomas Moore among their number, might have been guilty of the same excesses. The Whigs were at a discount in the eyes of the nation ; they were ...

... CONFRDSRATZ ACCOUNT. The Ri,hmond Whig of the 17th contains the following account of the capture of Fort Fisher: ...

... the expense of principle. This is Mr. Ferrand's doctrine : ho fears the Whigs even when they offer gifts; and as to Whig Admirals, Whig Controllers and Surveyors of the Navy, Whig Lords of the Ad. miralty, both Junior and First, he holds them in utter ...