... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... correspondence, which Whig diplomacy by way of Foreign Office epistles was not respectably conspicuous, was refused in Parliament to Mr. Disraeli. Un beau matin as the French say, person of accredited position requested interview, and the Whig dispatch, with ...

... And the Great Whigs go down to their contain aQu congratulate themselves and the world that freedom is the law of the Empire, and bless c «, en creatine Whigs to expound this great truth to » * ju. Free Trade, Heaven bless you ! the Whigs Free Trade—and ...

... of the country under the predominance of Whig clique, which was subsequently effected in 1688, Lord Russell intended by his Bill, and nothing but the Bill, to vest exclusive power in the hands of the modern Whigs through the intervention of the middle classes ...

... 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 ...

... Still there were many of the old Whigs that were refractory. Lord John Russell, to whom the introduction of the measure in the House of Commons, was entrusted in order to overcome the reluctance of the Constitutional Whigs, assured them that the measure ...

... 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 ...

... recorded defeat, Deoadjuvante, of the Whig party in the Lower Houso of Parliament. With the Conservatives personal exaltation, as in the example of Lord Churston, embodies the triumph of honour and integrity;—with the Whigs it is the cloak of defeat and the ...

... hate the very name—Church-rate :— For why Because the Church I hate 1 Whig Churchman •' These words make me with anger swell .— For why? love the Church so well 1 Churchman, but Whig- - Wonders, sure will never cease :— Lo ! friends and foes combine ...

... when he attempted to devis measure, or show that the dang-rou N ,j- could Deen settled with greater skil v 4rjJ*cretioii. The Whig and Liberal denouncer their method of attack but little. They *th bitter comments on alleged inconeiscommitted by the Ministry ...

... emancipation has been a most useful political topic to the Whigs ; but the working-man emancipated, master of the situation, and asking yeu to dinner, is quite another sort of thing. It is with the Whigs as with good many Northerners in the United States. The ...