... transpire just on the eve of an election, in which Whig rule is hang- ing in a most uncomfortable balance of suspension. A certainty of the fact would doubtless strike off j some twenty or thirty Whig members, and the } loss of that number would prove ...

... so many ram and strange things, has produced a Ministry exactly of the old Whig pattern—dominated by the same old Whig principles-kept together by the same aristo- cratic Whig influences. There is actually less of the pure Radical element in the present ...

... acquiesce in the monopoly of administration by a few great Whig families; that Reform and Libe- ralism are not mere pass-worcte invented to faci- litate the admission of scions of three or four Whig ducal houses into the high offices of State. Of course ...

... be unprecedented. C.-Facts: 1. The Parliament of 1837 was elected under Whig auspices. 2. The Parliament of 186J now existing was also elected under Whig auspices. 3. Yet the Whig Government of 1810-41 continued to bold office, although beaten no less ...

... fruit that was forbidden her? There were Whigs and Tories, asnow, 150yearskgo,and advantage wasalwaystaken when a woman was reigning. It was so in Queen Anne's days. Who took advantage of that poor woman but the Whigs? Tho Radical papers had within the last ...

... ridiculous of despatch the most factious df whigs, the mpst egotistical, 'and therefore the most impracticable 'of ministego. He addeces e'idence in support of all these 'assertions; ,andwhatever may be the opinions of whig partisans, -liberal aspifants for places ...

... compliance with his own view of the necessities of his position, he proposed to offer high office to several members of the Whig party and even to certain members of Lord Kussell's Govern- ment. He should, therefore, have to ask from his own sup- porters ...

... middle age, that he became M.P. for Lis native town. Mr. Baines, senior, was a Whig, for the Whigs abolished the Test and Corporation Acts, the Whigs made Leeds a borough, the Whigs made rtlr. Baines an M.P., and the present M.P. for Leeds still retains that ...

... No. It is this, and this alone- the Whig borough franchise of 1832 has disappeared But by whom was this discarded? Why by the Whigs themselves. Bat, more than this, in 1859 Lord Derby's G{Governnment gave the Whig party an opportunity of re- penting their ...

... much doubting the veracity of the comparison made by his opponent between the old Whig and the new, and bluntly asking the question for the peeple's solution, if the Whig party have been lukewarm in the cause of reform. Again, Liberal members in the House ...

... He professes to be a moderate Conservative. The other candidates were Mr. Skipton, moderate Whig, and Mr. Greer ultra Liberal, a Radical from the start. The Whig nowhere on the poll, and thenceforward it was a gallant race between Messrs. M'Cormick and ...

... Administration need not have so much to do with the peerage. It was also objected that the Government contained too many Whigs. The Whigs had a hereditary taste for office, If they had not a hereditary right to it. Those who look at the Treasury Benches next ...