... load of direct taxation and Mr. Bright and his Manchester followers are fully aware how dear office is to the leaders of the Whig party, and so goad them on in their suicidal course. Nothing shows the correctness of this definition of their policy more ...

... Often as it has fallen to the lot of conservative statesmen to be called in at the eleventh hour to replenish the deficit of a Whig Exchequer, : there is a natural recoil in the present instance from any desire to relieve Mr. Gladstone of the terrible re ...