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... Twenty-five Whig peers, including Lord SHAFTESBURY, voted in the majority condemnatory of Mr. GLAnscroNE's Budget. It is very difficult to believe that this strong vote in the Lords was really disapproved by Lord .PALNIERSTON. The filet that Lord SHAFTESBURY ...
... Protestant here. It is thus that ho keeps together the Coalition Ministry, as the only barrier against the disruption of the Whig party, and their absorption into the two other parties in the State. This adroit and unscrupulous game, however, cannot be ...
... influenced the policy and legislation of the country solely through their alliance with the equally unscrupulous leaders of the Whigs. And all the efforts of Messrs. BRIGIIT and GLADSTONE OR the one hand and of Lords PALMERSTON and RUSSELL on the other aro ...
... free her finances from their Oriental inefficiency, and bring the healthy and liberal views of the British Legislature and the Whig Cabinet into full and complete union, sweeping away the old rust of restriction and protection which clogged the action and ...
... favour of that party is unmistakeable. Therefore the moment any rupture takes place between the Whig and Radical sections of the Coalition, the old Whigs--already stanch Conservatives at heart would to a man unite themselves with the present Opposition ...
... vitality and success. The Whigs have bartered their patriotism and abnegated their wisdom to conciliate the Manchester party ; and the latter party are daily growing more unpopular. It is simply a Coalition squabble,—in which the Whigs, for the sake of retaining ...
... the times were changed. It was Mr. Pitt's object to break up the great Whig oligarchy which he had scotched but not killed in 1784. But he was not merely a good hater of the Whigs. Ile was the first English Minister who appreciated the importance of the ...
... tinsel of eloquei.ce which glittered so finely at first is wearing off and becoming dim. And certainly the acquiescence of the Whig Government in the protectionist measure of their pet Indian financier may bring them into serious disrepute with the manufacturing ...
... discussed by one likely to produce an impression on the minds of hon. gentlemen opposite. I always like to quote a Whig against a Whig. This great privilege you boast of has been discussed by the late Lord Macaulay. He says,— The privileges of the House ...
... made to extend like an elastic mantle of charity so as to comprise the Janus-faced PREMIER and the most moderato of the old Whigs. But the Parliamentary section who specially arrogate to themselves this high-sounding title are the Liberals who sit in awful ...
... Manchester party, who sneer with Mr• BRIGHT at the Volunteers, or eulogize with him the military despot of France ? Is it the Whigs, who hastily dismantled our fleet and disbanded our crews in 1856, and who still delay to act upon the report of the Committee ...
... reason to be satisfied. The present Government was constructed confessedly on the principle that it was only possible for the Whigs to retain office on the terms of a strict alliance with the Radicals ; and that alliance has placed them in direct antagonism ...