... quiet legislators.” very laudable ambition, doubtless; but it is worthy of remark that Lord Knheld—the heir of the Byngs, and Whig of the first water—is obliged, with a single exception, to look for his model members” on the Tory side of the House. The ...

... in the presence of unusual difficulties at home and abroad, we might easily fall into a policy little to the taste of either Whig or Conservative of the existing type. At present the interests of the country seem to demand as little change as is compatible ...

... striking and gratifying feature of the whole proceedings, was the marked and studious exclusion of everything like party feeling. Whigs, Tories, and Radicals, felt that, upon this occasion, they could sink their differences, and meet upon a neutral platform, ...

... non-political gathering both commerce, the Whigs cannot with truth vaunt much nor can it undo it any more than they can undo any leading townsmen distinguished strangers of all over their political opponents. It was a Whig of the .great laws of Nature. As well ...