... increase his majority, hour by hour, until the poll closed. four o'clock the numbers were— Heygate (conservative) 1597 Harris (whig-radical) 1033 Taylor (radical) majority of Heygate over Harris, majority over Tavlor, 620. The number polled for Mr. Heygate ...

... dependent upon conservative support. Ever since Lord Grey's retirement the purely whig element has been decaying, and though political traditions still retain the aristocratic whigs as leaders, their followers are decreasing, and their system becoming more untenable ...

... that the claims of the unenfranchised classes to a share in the political representation of the country, claims recognised whig and in many a royal speech, were ignored yesterday; the steady, downward, notorious course of the government precluded any ...