... 2 remission of taxation, this above all others shoulg be the one selected. We do not wish to imitate the clap trap of the Whigs during the Free Trade crisis. Then it suited their purpose to represent the poor man’s physical comforts as matters of paramount ...

... whilst the utmost influence that he could command in his own county was devoted to the same object. Few men among the advanced Whigs occupied a more prominent position. In those critical times, when every vote had a value that can scarcely be appreciated in ...

... made to the intelligent and provident classes as yet without the franchise. We have always maintained that the conduct of the Whigs in reference to reform bore the aspect of feigned anxiety, and now we have Lord Joun own most damaging admission, that neither ...

... undertaken faithfully to represent in Parliament. The gentleman's conduct as described by himself, is a remarkable exponent of Whig doings in general. He tells his confiding constituents that considered the Chancellor of the Exchequer's estimates unsatisfactory ...

... &c., There he dii his work, for chief after chief, Till the 7 Tory party it came to grief; And the Treasury Bench when the Whigs they won, ho was Foreign See. but Joln Palmerston Sing hey, &e. Ss then years thirty and one he's seen, s »mark they've leit ...

... a severe contest. Pem- brokeshire showed its Conservative character in a similar manner by electing Mr. in preference to a Whig. In South Wiltshire, 1,200 signatures have been attached to a petition calling upon Capt. Batuvurst to come forward in the ...

... learnt that Mr. Roundell Palmer, the Solicitor General of Lord Palmerston's Administration, is to be the nominee of the Whig Lord Zetland for the borough of Richmond. His acceptance of office and of this seat clearly amounts an abandon meat of ...

... Ministry are indebted to the eminently honourable conduct of the Earl of Derby ; and were we not too well acquainted with the Whig morale might indulge the hope that such an instance of high-minded statesmanship would produce a salutary effect upon the leading ...

... part of the united kingdom has of late assumed a Conservative tendency, stronger than has been witnessed for many years. The Whigs and Radicals when in office have been so reckless in their legislation, always destroying instead of repairing our con- stitution ...

... (Laughter.) You Whigs have had power since 1832. You pledged yourselves to eeonomy and retrenchment, but I have never seen you carry it out. The expenditure in 1836 amounted to little more than £40,00),000 a year, but what is it now ? You Whigs have male great ...

... lately spoken before his constituent* has declared that there substantially nothing reform ; and even that rising hope of the Whigs—and a c very forlorn hope he is—Lord Enfield, has lately declared ' himself strong Conservative Lord Derby. What is this but ...

... if there were a question betweea th> throwing over ef their pleiges to the wertting may and the saivation of the Whig minist:y, the Whig ministry wontd be saved and the would be e = iven te the winds. (Laughter li they had kept their pledges the income ...