... sole authority of a re formed House Commons; and that the only families who have any voice in the matter are the j old Whig families who have enjoyed, for the last thirty years, almost a monopoly of the office and who have owed that monopoly, in ...

... on the subject the approaching session parliament, and some of the difficulties which beset the path of his employers, the Whig-Radical Ministry : If I may conclude from what I observe, I should say that the meeting of Parliament is awaited with more ...

... the evils which afflict our political system. But the members of the Ballot Society have great faith in the squeezability of Whig Statesmen ; and, in spite of the determined tone in which Lord Palmerston denounced their project, less than eleven months ...

... position for defence, —and we are proud that such is the fact. At the same time we would remark that, considering that the Whigs have been power, with two short intervals, ever since 1846, it is that party which must answer the really important part of ...

... consideration on the claims or requirements of the distant dependencies of the Crown ; and it was only natural that the orthodox Whig doctrine that anyi thing would do for India—the same doctrine which, at various times, had entrusted to the feebleness ...

... —The nomination of candidates for the Borough of Leicester took place yesterday, when Mr. Heygate (Conservative), Mr. Harris (Whig-Radical), and Mr. Taylor (Chartist), were respectively proposed. The show of hands was in favour. of Mr, Taylor, whereupon ...

... public questions may be clearly understood, and that his statements may hereafter be appreciated at their real worth. The Whigs came into office in the year 1830, and Mr. Bright states, truly enough, that the annual expenditure, at that period, amounted ...

... not threatened just at present with another Whig Reform Bdl. The British constitution is granted reprieve for the present and the same kind consideration is extended to Her Majesty's faithful Commons. The Whig Ministry came in upon the Reform Bill, but ...

... and revolutionists generally. The Conservative candidate, Mr. Heygate, has been returned by the large majority of over the Whig-Radical, Mr. Harris, and of 020 over the Chartist, Mr. Taylor. The contest which has just ended is important as illustrating ...

... of Cobden, Bright and Co., thus discourses on the dreary subject of further Parliamentary Reform, and the prospects of the Whig- Radical Ministry, whom it did its best, in its small way, to place in power:— After the shameless repudiation of their honour ...

... last session, of the Ministerial Bill for the so-called Reform of the Corporation of the City of London—a reform which fhe Whigs promised six and twenty years ago— but which they have not accomplished yet. That bill, introduced at the very commencement ...

... pc enabled, the influence of the Romish Church dignitaries, rescue the premier county of Ireland from the grasp of either Whig or Tory. Major O'Reilly would answer purpose admirably; but although his name has been men- T°\ as _ a Probable candidate he ...