... THE STARTLED WHIGS. THE tenacity of Whig prejudice is very curious. There is far more sympathy between the true Conservative and the true Liberal, than between the Whig and the latter. One would think that modern progress would widen the Whig’s area of vision ...

... THE WHIGS AND REFORM. The Saturday Review considers there can be doubt that any Reform bill coming from the Liberal party would have been of very different character from the preaent bill. What Lord Derby laid, when speaking of the ‘Oppo* aition Peers/ ...

... THE POLICY OP THE WHIGS. The Tima oot that •• when they find themselves difficulties the Whigs propose some tremendons enterwhicb. if they fnil themselves, they can drag their « nem’ies into. It then comes this If the Toms take 1, the measure and contrive ...

... AND THE WHIGS. The Saturday Review, after reciting the collapse of the Cave one the remarkable events of the session, goes show that the Beform bill has dished” the Whigs for time, if not for ever. The unnecessary loquacity of the steady-goiog Whig Peers ...

... Gladstone was in danger.” Mr. Gilbert Heathcote, now Lord Aveland, is a young Whig peer, who represented Rutland : Sit William Heathcote, a Conservative baronet who took a first class in classics, and was Fellow of All Souls, sat for North Hants four ...

... were entering io ye would good prayer forihe present times to say, ** From Jews, Turks heretics, infidels, Whig lawyers, good Lord, deliver (loud applause). The Rev. Achilles Daunt proposed the second resolo- I :—“ That the diseslablisbment and diseodowmeot ...

... bound to support the Whigs in return for having got the franchise through tbe manoeuvres aod exertions Whig Government. Everything else was go on before, bat there should be addition to the electoral power which keeps good honest Whigs in office.” ...

... fate of the Whigs. It was impossible that measures similar character and import could be brought forward without materially affecting decaying party, whose interests were entirely bound np with the maintenance the present system. Some Whigs who were unduly ...

... the Whig Cabinet which succeeded that of Lord Derby in 1859. Lord John Russell, indeed, made a show of bringing in Reform Bill, order to redeem the promises under which he and his colleagues returned to office. But the Bill was burked by the Whigs themselves ...

... damns* tory feature of all previous proposals of the Whig Governmeol and the Liberal party. Whoever shall have resided in borough for oue year, and paid the poor rates, shall have a vote. The Whigs, in their projected additions to the constituencies, ...

... from Whig teaching. Wo are told by the Tima that Indian Viceroys have hitherto been selected for their Indian experience, for their diplomatic genius, or for their military talents.” The real fact is, that for nearly 40 years, daring which the Whigs have ...

... some extent, we may still say enduring) distinction between the two great Parties is, that the Whigs sought to rule the country by means of an oligarchy—Whig Cabinets were open only to members of the high aristocracy, especially to the noble houses who ...