... bound to support the Whigs return for having got the franchise through the manoeuvres and exertions of a Whig Government. Everything else to go on as before, but there should be addition to -lectoral power which keeps good honest Whigs in ofEc- The demonstration ...

... language. So long the Tories allow the Whigs to do nothing, they are least respectable and honest. If they the Whigs did, and justify the policy they adopt, there is nothing too bad to be said of them. What high Whig authorities would greatly prefer is that ...

... of defenceless travellers, but who make themselves scarce at the first swing of the cudgel. England, as represented by the Whigs, exercises just now about as much influence on Continental politics as Spain or Holland. And yet, if England be without influence ...

... of the English people towards the Whig-Radicals, it satisfactory to learn the fact from an advanced Radical himself. If also the decapitation of the unhappy monarch be supposed to symbolize the extinction of the Whig, again the illustration is accepted ...

... by enlarging the rural districts—the Tories, generally, would be the gainers, and the Whigs the losers. Therefore the single members were retained. This was the Whig motive pure and undefiled. We speak from positive knowledge. In justice it must be remarked ...

... retire. This gentleman was elected at first as a Whig, by both parties. In 1839 he addressed letter his constituents stating that recent public events had compelled him to oppose the policy of the Whigs, and that as there was no other choico than to be ...

... another flagrant example of Whig jobbery. Redistribution was so contrived .as to disfranchise Conservative boroughs in a greater degree than Whig boroughs, and to transfer seats to places likely to elect supporters of a Whig-Radical Administration. Mr ...

... I had been in Parliament during the last four years, I should have supported the Tory reformers in preference to the Whigs. The Whigs have paltered so long with the question of reform, that every sincere man must have been glad to see it wrested from ...

... disarming it. He was born whig; he belonged to the ranks of the popular party; and he filled his post with distinguished grace. He did his best to be a good, honest, open-hearted Whig, according to the fashion of his time- a whig who, with aristocratic taste ...

... that if Whig Radical minister deemed him worthy to fill one of the litgli offices of the law, it would be the reward as well as tho object an honest ambition. And looking at the modicum of ability, and surplusage of improbity, that the Whigs require to ...

... It has been the fashion j. the Whig-Radicals of late to discountenance o,t;0 ,t;^ Ca divisions, and to represent party distincas indistinct if not altogether obliterated. °ftp Cttn m discovering the cause ,ls - Wfien Whigs were in the zenith of r, and when ...

... Party is committed to Reform by any pledge. The Conservatives succeeded to- office, at the call of the Queen,simply because the Whig-Radical Executive had forfeited the confidence of Parliament and the country byl Reform blunderings ; and in the Lower Ministry ...