... Conservative, and had voted for seventeen years in favour of that party. It became suspected in the town that he had promised the Whigs, and when asked by Mr. Reynolds whether such rumour were true, be said he had not made up his mind. He was, he said, asked ...

... preferred Lord Derby's measure of last year, the Whigs do not believe that any material alteration is required, and the Radicals grumble because it does not go far enough. And yet the Peelites, the Whigs, and the Manchester men have concurred in accepting ...

... Ihe legal construction of the Reform Act. All these countervailing elements are omitted from the existing measure. the former Whig Bill, representatives were given to minorities; that is, to property as distinguished from population, providing that main ...

... the people to assert their rights; and Sir James Stewart, Bart., of Fortstewart, has headed the list with £5. Northern Daily Whig. Mr. Bright ox Highland Clearances.— In letter regarding the Scrabster Crown Lands, Mr. Bright says— The whole system of setting ...

... office, and beoause they see in the present project such an undue preponderance given to the lowest classes as will induce the Whigs to strengthen their hands to protect them :'rom the violent encroachments of democracy. A Reform Bill is a measure which every ...

... with all the wild ungovernable fury of his well-known namesake in the German legend. Mr. Horsnian was once in office with the Whigs, Irish secretary, and when he was leaving for Ireland he consulted with those who were supposed to know most of the habits ...

... ministry from supineness, which, otherwise. should have been theirs. Liberals trembled at the delicate situation’’ of the of the Whigs—Lord 1 ‘almeiiston. thin was the majority which leaned, that the weight of a blue bottle fly', if launched against the new ...

... means of carrying their principles into action and legislation. have long been accustomed to recognize the infirmities of our Whig brethren, and to offer them the helping hand onward. They have wisely conceded to the demands of the age, and have met, a very ...

... petitions were to be heard; for although the petition claiming the seat for Sir S. Biguold was sent in first, and numbered first, a whig radical underling had taken care to enter Col. Boldero's petition on the journals of the house before that of his colleague ...

... that he would introduce to them two Conservative candidates. The Conservatives were not satisfied with the government of a Whig-Radical ministry, they would like to see a Derby government, and he objected to the usurpation by his opponents of ihe title ...

... that the Whig party did not desire it, and thai the country did not call lor it, but the league with Manchester made it requisite. They could admit but one or two members of the low radical section into the cabinet —and, depend upon it, the Whigs v ould ...

... cheers]—but if it were true that Norwich never had any but Whig or Radical representatives, are you to have no freedom of choice Are you not to be allowed to have opinion of your own Are Whig or Radical candidates to be for ever thrust down your throats ...