... THE WHIG REFORM BILL.—THE MARCH OF DEMOCRACY. The Russell-Palmerston-Bright Reform Bill appears to receive small favour at the hands of cither friend or foe. The following able article on tho subject of the equilibrium of political power appeared in ...

... is to be his future position That of Whig Chief when Lord Palmerston quits the box, is one of the prognostications afloat. should say, in that case, the leader would worthy of the party. But we augur that the Whigs will prefer a man possessing more ballast ...

... Peel’s Committee, has ended in such an exposure as is positively sickening for any man of moderate political purity to read. Whigs and Tories are alike, and it is difficult to say whether those who bribed at the elections for Berwick, a few only of whose ...

... the honours the Liberals showered upon him in his brighter and better days. We shall not allow any poliey-moogering worn-out Whigs in our own locality to send witnesses to Lord G bbt’s special committee, to blacken the six-pound householders of Newcastle ...

... speaking thus plain. He is a Whig all over, and he does not conceal the fact. The same sturdy independence which led him to refuse knighthood when it was offered by her Majesty treats with scorn the pliant spirit which makes other Whigs swallow the pill, which ...

... upon a Reform Bill under the leadership of an Earl Grkt appears passing strange to generation that have been reared even in Whig traditions, have been witnesses of the great political act, which shed lustre over the declining, as his companionship in that ...

... overpowered by ducal influence, he was cast out of his own county, what induced the electors of Sunderland, Radicals as well Whigs, to accept their candidate, and carry him triumphantly to the poll against the reactionary nominee o the slupowning interest ...

... give them substantial benefit through admission into what is called the pale of the constitution ; but they do see a crafty Whig proceeding resuscitated to serve a political purpose, and they look upon it with silent contempt, and care little whether it ...

... M'Cormick, the eminent railway contractor, moderate Conservative; the other candidates-were Mr, Skipton, moderate Whig, and Mr. Greer, a RadfeqlV the Whig was nowhere on the poll, and was a between Messrs. M'Cormick and Greer, the Conservative winning majority ...

... draughts of in the Commons. The £6 householders should speak out if they desire the franchise, for both Tories and recreant Whigs such as Earl Grey will in due time give a significant interpretation to their silence. After Easter there will be a perfect ...

... conference respect to a matter which in its present aspect, sets at defiance the Public Treaties 1815. the meantime our sapient Whig Ministry quietly look on, and scarcely raise voice against a policy which is as nefarious it wanton and unprovoked. The Select ...

... been received great boon l>y the working classes. This, would have been unpalatable both with the Conservatives and the old Whigs, who profess to see even the smallest extension of the franchise the' introduction the thin: end of revoh-i tionary wedge, ...