... that very large proportion of its members belong to the Whig party, and that their titles are not of more that thirty years' standing. The fact is that, since the paising of the Reform Bill, the Whigs have enjoyed an unusually long tenure of power ; and ...

... former said to be tory, the latter a whig ; at all events that feeling was the cue of the game. The whigs lei off on the first day with a majority of three or four, the next day it increased to seven, olosing at—whigs 20, tories 13. It was said that after ...

... (pure and simple) 312' Peelites 11 Whigs 238 Radicals 656 [This gives East Kent to the Conservatives, its late and rightful possessor, and Reigate to the Whigs. Putting the Conservatives on one side, and the Whigs, Radicals, Peelites, Jews, Turks, Infidels ...

... more sterling, and reliable than those of Lord Russell and the Whigs. Before quitting the subject, and as Lord Russell has insisted with such emphasis upon the moral influence of a Whig Ministry upon Continental councils, —there is one point—a trifle—that ...

... Does he carry the Whig purse? The article complains of the influence which is attempted to be exerted over the employes of the South Western Railway Company, in the name of the directors, and concludes follows :-Badly as the Whigs played their game at ...

... been wrong in times past and so have Whigs and Radicals and all who have formed a party, whatever name they may have been known. There is no man so rash to declare that his party has always been in the right. The Whigs had a great work to do in the days ...

... commander were made my father. Clay Have you noticed that when the Whigs were office they promoted more Whigs than Tories; and Pj, when the Tories were in office they promoted m To tha-i Whigs? I certainly think so, and have not oti any difference between ...

... of the Constitutional Whig party, with the view of forming Government in co-operation with them. authentic lists of a new Cabinet can be expected before the beginning next week. Until the result of his communications with the Whigs_is decisively ascertained ...

... He was happy to say that he had never yet been Whig, and he hoped he never should be, for believed in the description that Whig was tyrant office, and traitor out of it; but he did not think that the Whigs designed any damage to the national Church. But ...

... other leading Conservatives, and opposed by the leading Whigs. Sir Robert Peel's comprehensive Free-Trade policy was, says Mr. MURCHISON, positive reversal of the policy adopted by his immediate Whig predecessors, and was actually strenuously opposed by ...

... produced a Reform Bill because the Whigs whom they succeeded had, session after session, entered into pledges in the Queen's Speech to bring forward such a measure. They wished to keep faith with the people ; but the Whigs were determined that they should ...

... Ireland ; and the Scotch Whigs sold their King for ' ■ the thirty pieces. Protestant Whigs hanged and quartered Roman Catholics, per majorem Deigloriam and have now loaded them with honours and sanctioned their hierarchy. The same Whigs lifted up their voice ...