... andMr. Gladstobe parts with them the more willingly inasmuch as the tax is admittedly a bad one. Exactly 25 years ago, when a Whig Govern- ment first attempted to deal with the abuses of Protection, the proposal to reduce the duty on foeeign timber was one ...

... . LonD DEnnY has been unsuccessful in his desire to obtain new blood for his third administration from the reactionary Whigs who have virtually raised him to power. Mr. Lowe's endeavours to carry over a little coterie to the Tory camp ended in that ...

... he At one of her small land agreeable dinners in Park-street (all ad the company except herself being Whigs), the desperete prospects of the Whig party were discussed, 1Yes, Said Sidneybmaitl, who was present, 1 ve are in amost deplorable ceudrition ...

... observed with deep concern how the local interests of Shetland have been long overlooked, owing to the incapacity of Whig governments and Whig representatives; that her Majesty's Cabinet consider it absolutely necessary that a postal subsidy should be granted ...

... ought not to be one of 2e class. It is one affecting equally the national inheritance of all, whether Tories or Conservatives, Whigs or Radicals. ll EDMOND BIIALES, President of the Reform League. (The ig proclamation was received with loud cheers.) e Whilet ...

... minis- terialists would follow him in his desertion to Toryism. A coalition Cabinet, composed of Conservatives and renegade Whigs was confidently spoken of in the clubs. Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone were marked out for political extinction ; Reform was ...

... question, but would e regard a defeat as destroying a vital principle of the Bill, w as equally unsuccessful. The reactionary Whigs and crotchety Liberals found that they could place the c Cabinet in a minority; and the Conservatives weret naturally delighted ...

... were selected to lilt Imeportant appointments, It. lhdreth. who had been a Whig. A bolitionist editor for many years, and author of an excellent American history, written in the Whig interest, was selected as consul 'to Trieste. 'ie was doubtless the'ablest ...

... ticket, this Is the r Whig. But if you strive to vote twice, I shall have you I arrested. You will, will you? shouted the son of the sovereign people * then I says that if I'm denied the right of t voting for the Whigs, after goin' the whole ticket ...

... Mr. Disraeli, and adopted by Earl Grosvenor, threatened a most disastrous split in the ministerial ranks. The reactionary Whigs asserted that upwards of forty Liberals would vote against the second reading of the Bill ; and while there was no doubt that ...

... reasonably deprecate any addition to its sufferings. Mr. Cobden's next charge is the abandonment by Lord Palmerston of the old Whig watchword of Retrench- ment. We are; as the member for Rochdale never tires of telling us, spending more money than wve ...

... es sone of the wisest men in fngiand, and with reference to the doughty priest's famous deolaration, Thank God I am not a Whig, 'he taunted him with ingratitude towartd a party wicieh bad made one brother a bishop, and another the Speaker of the House ...