... at least three- fourths of the landed proprietors are Whigs, but sisce 1841 they have not as a body interfered with the votes of their tenantry. Consequently the great bulk of the tenantry on the Whig estates have gradually become Con- servative. This ...

... interruption.) Gentlemen, in the Whig ranks as well as in the Radical divisions, dissensions are pateist and undeniable. There are the pure Whigs par excellence; and, it would seem to follow, the impure Whigs, by contrast. The Whig bybridises readily in both ...

... Commnons. His first great act supplied an additional and most powerful element of antago- nism between the Old Whigs and himself. The Old Whigs desired I'arlianientary Reform as little as the Tories themselves. They had no objection to use it as a party ...

... been able to draw up even the sketch of a Cabinet based upon anything more solid than hypotheses. The reports that the great Whigs who were supposed to have sympathies with Adullam, or at least no sympathy with Mr. Gladstone, have refused to join a Derby ...

... sort a representative of the moderate Radicals, a link between Whigs and Manchester men, as the bat is a link between birds and the lower animals, but even he has been long under the old Whig influence. Who is there to aid heartily in a project, say of ...

... extensive, if not a fundamental, re-con- stitution of the Government. The elimination of two such pure Whigs would dissolve the allegiance of the Whig party to the remaining portion of the Cabinet. The probability is that a succession of weak Governments ...

... qnalification for office is his ability to render him- self necessary to the Whig party, is about the absurdest perversion of history ever attempted. That EARL RussrLL is a Whig nobody will dis- pute; that he is, perhaps, too much inclined to rely on a ...

... said that with a very slight exception the Whigs had ruled us for twice seven years and a bttle more. But to rule and to govern iin polities meant two very different things. He had yet to learn that the Whigs had ever governed us. They never had, and, ...

... there may be no further violation of the promise of an ex-D tended suffrage. Here, if anywhere, Unuion Is strength. il The Whig and Radical parties, taken separately, are out- St numbered by the Tories; but working together heart and D hand, under the ...

... COnservatism, or, by inverting the s0 order, Conservative Liberalism. By the same authority g we have been informed that Whig and Tory principles I- have been exploded as antiquated and obsolete. I beg leave, o. en pa'sant, to inquire, who are the ...

... alluded to the coalition of the aristocratic Whigs willh th9 enpmiP5 of ppr 32l~ti~thliQll, (Eour, jlVar) 1$ -was only within the last twelve months that Mr. Bright binrself had been received by the leading Whigs as the advocate of principles with which they ...

... seemed to regular politicians ludicrous, to the electors disagreeable, and to the body of the nation a mece dreal:n, Outside the Whig circle the strongest Liberals, wi ile the possible or partial exception of Mr. Cobden, were held to be excluded fromn high ...