... pledges which the necessities of their position prompted them to give and in obedience to the pressure from without. The Whigs should understand that they are now on their trial ; they have professed to sail in the same boat with the people ; and if ...

... Machiavelli, Hallam, and Southey followed in succession. He also wrote this period some political squibs ; shortly after which the Whigs obtained for him an appointment as Commissioner of Bankrupts ; and in 1830 he entered Parliament as member for Colne. He made ...

... poor-laws to the existing representative system. This would say—tho poor-law * are maintaiucd by both political parties—by Whigs and Tories. These are maintained by the electors, raised, ordinarily, a little the sphere of want, and they, the multitude ...

... Immediately after followed Lords Carlisle and Granville, the venerable Marquis of Lansdowne, and whole host of the leaders of the Whig party; but it a noticeable fact that, with the exception of Lord Stanley, not a single Conservative of note was observed to ...

... maintained that the property qualification ought be manhood qualification, becausetnan himself was man's noblest property. The Whigs said the representation-should be based upon taxation, but he believed that more good could come out of the Nazareth of Whiggism ...

... free soil organisation. This party is the creation of the anti-slavery sentiment of the Free States, and has displaced the Whig, Democratic, and Know-Nothing parties that pre- the viously have alternately had predominaut sway. embodiment of political ...

... from the papers of the late ' General, by his brother-in-law, Mr. S. C. Marshman. The late Lord Macaulay was the third great Whig statesman who had commenced a history of the Revolution of 1683, and had failed finish his task.' Mr. Fox and Sir James Mackintosh ...

... Palmerston's ! Government should lose their places, if not tlieir j heads, and most the Tory leaders say ditto to the recreant Whig. Such puerilities as these have t during the week been made topics of debate, and used for the purpose of bringing about mere ...

... put down. Certainly the Union assumed a thankless office when it sought to lay bare the nefarious acts of the briber, whether Whig or Tory, and to bring him to the bar of public justice. But all must admit that a duty, onerous and unwelcome, has been co ...

... supporters of Mr. Majoribanks. There was no brought against any supporter of Mr. Hodgson. Conservative—Mr: Majoribanks was Whig.* defendants had also said they were not influenced W i personal motives, and were unknown to all the against whom they were ...

... It cannot be contended that when man comes to another and says I'll give you £100 to vote for a certain candidate, be he Whig, Tory, or Radical, that is not offence against the statute, because the returning officer may have made a mistake and not have ...

... in the House of Commons. Out of sorts himself and everything and everybody else since he iost his situation iv the ci-devant Whig Government, he has taken upon himself to be the taunting scold of a miserable coterie who have resolved, and to the best of ...