... of obloquy was showered upon Mr. Gladstone by the Whig party for having deserted their cause, as he had previously been a most strenuous supporter of Mr. Roscoe, and as such teas considered a decided Whig. For years afterwards, whenever he appeared at any ...

... and Roscommon (Co.) The following is at present the composition of the House of Commons :—Conservatives, 303 ; Peelites, 14; Whigs, 239; Ultra-Radicals, 98 : total, 649. The Army in India. The promotions and distinctions to be conferred on the officers filling ...

... obnoxious impost. In 1841 Sir Robert Peel came into power, and found the finances of the country crippled the mismanagement of the Whigs. It was with a deficiency staring him in the face that that distinguished statesman introduced an Tncome tax of 7 ...

... some other son of the house should be always found in Parliament as member for the old borough ? And, if they were all Whigs of the Whigs, and sometimes even dallied with the ballot and expressed themselves loosely about £6 suffrage, we might not like it ...

... of Conservative statesnun is preparing itself to act upon it in conjunction with a new combination of the sons of the old Whigs and Tories in the great middle classes of England, we think is visible through the haze of the present stagnation of party ...

... a tone of triumph, he said, Let him (meaning myself) ask L*>rd Derby what he thinks of his partv now. Well, sir, the old Whigs, who are beginning to find out that the memories of 1832 must not be confounded with the hopes of 1861, and that the question ...

... proceedings terminated. The Election for Aberdeenshire.—We have no desire to parade the glaring and growing weakness of the Whigs, or to convert their delin- Juencies into political capital; but their conuct is on almost every occasion so outrageously vain ...

... their merits recognized by discerning relations during the Whig Paradise of the last thirty years Take care of Dowb, was the celebrated telegraphic despatch to the Crimea of a certain Whig Secretary for War, on his entrance into office. The excellent ...

... sailed, of Committees afraid But then there arose from supporters and foes A growl that disturbed the official repose : The Whigs from a scrape are glad to escape, So the witness against them is sent the Cape. Said then—that coolest of men— O, he's still ...

... thus: Liberal papers, 50; Conservative, 17; Independent, 20 j Neuter, 128. No distinction is here made between Liberal and Whig, or Liberal and Radical; nor between Conservative and Liberal Conservative or Tory.—Critic. Newspaper Births and Deaths, 1860 ...

... afford ! to follow that gentleman, and should vote for the bill. He also made some frank declarations ' which, from a professed Whig, and something more, like himself, must be considered very telling. Of the present Ministry he said— It must be impossible ...

... everywhere has their sympathy. The successors of Castlereagh|and Canning have certainly nothing to learn in foreign policy from Whig Minister whose best defence is that he endeavoured to copy the former of these statesmen but broke down in the attempt. The ...