... have had power since 1832. You pledged yourselves to economy and retrenchment, but I have never seen you carry it out. You Whigs have made a great many fresh laws, but look at the cost of working those laws. You have filled the country with commissioners ...

... state of parties in this country. I look, above all, with deep regret and concern on the position of the remnants of that great Whig party that was honoured by the names of Grey and Brougham and Mackintosh, and to which I deemed it an honour to belong. I see ...

... public career in the Lower House, voted on all occasions with the Whig party, and, although an unfrequent speaker in the House of Peer-, invariably supported the views and measures of the Whig governments. On the death of his father, in October, 1839, be ...

... made by my father. Mr. Clay : Have you noticed that when the Whigs were in office they promoted more Whigs than Tories ? and that when the Tories were in office they promoted more Tories than Whigs I—l certainly think so, and have not noticed any difference ...

... annually, the victory of Mr. PITT over the Duke of NORFOLK'S candidate, by a majority of I. Then, in 1816, Colonel WEBB, the Whig candidate, won his seat at a cost of 27,0001., of which 94361. were spent in Gloucester, and 24521. in London in opening public ...

... under the roof which had often echoed his eloquence, with the Whig lord, who was one of the conspiracy which vexed him with dogged hostility until lie sunk prematurely under the trial the Whigs hunted CANNING to death because he had inaugurated a large-minded ...

... ballot ; and from this period to 1841 he took an active part, under Sir Robert Peel, in battering the lame government of the Whigs, When Peel entered upon office Mr. Herbert was appointed Secretary to the Admiralty, and so remained until in 1545, when he ...

... Piers Geale, and widow of Sir Marcus Somerville. The deceased nobleman had for many years been a zealous supporter of the Whig party, and had done good service to his political friends during his long career in the House of Commons, more especially during ...

... contemporary far it casts a bitter reflection on his pet Whig curje.ratia, dead and buried now, which eat and drank blue.ctat toys squandered the charity gifts in securing Whig votes, took care of Whigs in leasing the charity lands. Even it it were true of ...

... entertain as free Englishmen, their own general opinions. Let them tie banded in the two great historical parties in the State, Whig or Tory. It would be a very unfortunate thing fur this country if in any great body of respectable men there should ever cease ...

... himself, if one comes to look at the make of the article, as he might express it ! Not at all: in the first place, you are a Whig Radical, and Stubbs has always voted blue, and always will (though his political principles do not go much beyond that formula); ...