... Exchequer could be obtained beyond the sacred circle of the old Whigs. We must not forget the Right Honourable Edwad Ellicee, commonly called Bear Ellice, who for years supported the Whigs, as an independent member of the party, on the insignificant condition ...

... opposition; he was one of the most influential members of the Whig party, and consistently supported all the great measures of political and social amelioration which were the watchword of the Whigs of the last generation. The marquis had the satisfac- tion ...

... Foreign Office, where he had already made a good position, merely to suit the convenience of Earl Russell. - Whole hosts of Whigs and Peelites have, in addition, been, we are told, outraged by the appointment of Sir Robert Peel in Ireland, and thus we see ...

... deliver the speech which he meant to have delivered on a previous evening. He began by a re- ference to the conduct of the Whigs in the matter of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill-omitting to mention, how- ever, that the only objection which he made to the ...

... Reform which, accord- ing to Lord Russell, distinguishes the orthodox Whig from the Conservative heretic, which dallies with no occa- sion and bows to no circumstances? The truth is the Whigs have wanted their Reform-that is, one to answer their purpose; and ...

... chosen in 18l, t members had been, for a long time, chosen one from each party, a member of the Derby family being Usual th Whig member. Mr. John Blackburne was the ?? a e ber from 1790 to 1830. On his retirement r. 0 Patten was chosen by the Tory party ...

... Gladstone is not supposed to be the colleague, whom, if the noble lord were Abraham, he would place in his bosom. None of the old Whigs, or the old officials, like Gladstone, and it is not thought that their warmth of affection is much exceeded toy that of the ...

... same excuse for the care- less expenditure as in the case of a rate-in-aid. Bnt the most striking point of convergence between Whig and Conservative is that which relates to America. Lord Hartington has just made a tour of the United States, South as well ...

... Lord Stanley (the late Earl of Derby), and Sir E. P. Hoghton, Bart., were the members for Preston. They both represented the Whig or Stanley interest in the borough, and had been returned in 1796, after a keen con- test with Mr. John Horrocks, manufacturer ...

... when there must be an extensive, if not fundamental, reconstitution of the govern- ment. The elimination of two such pure Whigs would dissolve the allegiance of the cabinet. The probability is that a succession of weak governments would ensue. The Pall ...

... it is hoped, of re-uniting the disjointed sections of the party. The Whigs proper are ready to go in for a Re- distribution of Seats Bill; the Radicals press for the ballot. The Whigs are chagrined at the rejection of their re-endowment policy in Ireland ...

... any amount of indirect taxation. It is within the memory of the middle-aged, that an English minister of the Lind denominated Whig, took credit upon himself for aiding in the establishment of the South American republics in opposition to the tyranny of Spain ...