... that Reform Bill, which had been in the main salutary, formed the principal argument in favour of another dose of the same Whig medicine. But, though a dose of six drops of strong medicine per day might benefit a patient, it might kill him to take a bottleful ...

... house of 124. On June 17th, 1850, a motion of the same statesman, then Lord Stanley, disapproving the foreign policy of the Whig Government, was carried in a house of 190 members. Taking the orders of the peerage in succession, it is found that 8 dukes ...

... and gave in his adhesion to Earl Grey in regard to the amendments of which that noble earl had given notice. A succession of Whig peers were led by Earl de Grey and Ripon, in support of the resolution; and a number of short speeches were made in that sense ...

... entered the Reformed Parliament the same year as member for Penryn and Falmouth. He became Solicitor-General just before the Whigs went out in December, 1834, and he returned to the same office when they came in again in April, 1835. Four years later he ...

... concerned. The Whigs, for some reason or other which it is not easy to understand, have never been °liberal to those who make literature in its various forms their calling as have been the Tories. Of this, the opposition which the old Whig Government made ...

... century; but what had he ever done in the matter 1 The same elements of discontent that were present now, existed even when a Whig Ministry was last in office; but, beyond the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, nothing had been done by it to promote the ...

... Be again referred to the want of representatives in Parliament for the agricultural interest, although . it was one in which Whig and Tory were alike concerned. It was the province of such societies as this to look to the measures brought forward in connection ...

... beheaded in the time of Charles I. The Binge are old Whigs and great aristocrats. Mr. Labouchere, who is fighting Middlesex on the same side, is the nephew of the Mr. Labouchere who was a member of several Whig ministries, and a partner in the home of Baring ...

... property are visited with no less monstrous severity. Oue must be an official, with all the hatred that, somehow or other, Whig officials always have had to forwarding any measure for the real benefit of the ry-ople, and which British legislators in general ...

... November, 1834, Sir Robert Peel assumed the reins of Government, and Lord Brougham resigned office with his collecgues. The Whig Ministry of Lord Melbourne, however, returned to power in the following April, but Lord Brougham was not reappointed to the ...

... criminals, and the honest can hold op his head whilst the sinner must sink into nothing. We have honest men, whether they are Whigs or Tories, steering the State barge. Working men are willing to settle their differences by arbitration. We have a kind feeling ...

... attend the Reform Banquet, although it has not pleased the prominent reformers, has gained him praise from many members of the Whig party, who more than once had reason to vote against him in the recent Parliamentary campaign. It is strange that a man who ...