... head, supported the Aboli! tion Bill, while five Whigs voted against it. Ports- mouth occupies a peculiarly anomalous position— itg Conservative M.P. (Sir J. Elphinstone) voting for abolition, and its Whig M.P. (Sir P. Baling) staving away. The Irish did ...

... their feel- ings, for it seemed it was agitation and not reasoning that was now required from the people. (Hear, hear.) The Whig and Conservative Governments had admitted the necessity of reform. A resolution, declaring among other things, that the efforts ...

... (Laughter.) You Whigs have had power since 1832. You plelged your- selves to economy and retrenchment, but I bjive never seen you cany it out. The expenditure in 1835 amounted to little more than £40,000,000 a tear, but what js jt now ? You Whigs have made ...

... the expenditure of the coun- j try have been so great. Lord Palmerston's Govern - I ment was pledged to reform, but had the Whigs fol- i filled the promise ? Lord John Russell had for the last i four years been playing with the people. He had | brought ...