... to more recent times, the Whigs have done pisitively nothing since 1846, which stamps them as distinct from the Conservatives. The free-trade battle was not a fight at all between the Whigs and the Conservatives. Numerous Whigs disapproved of the repeal ...

... the Earl of Shaftesbury in the chair, for the purpose of raising funds to erect a monument to John Bunyan. The Heads of the Whig Party.—The career of the late Duke of Bedford curiously illustrates the political importance which a man may attain in England ...

... certainly never joined any Whig Club, they equally abstained from Conservative identification members of the Carlton. Upon such nominal supporters party can count ; hence had they, retiring from Parliament, been even replaced Whigs, we should not have reckoned ...

... of our own town to a sense of the practical disfranchisement which they suffer in allowing the representation to monopolized Whig-Radicals ; and a correspondent, Try, sounds the note of preparation for war here when another opportunity offers. There is ...

... was a Liberal, so the character of the representation remains unaltered, ln this small county, the principal landowners are Whig-Radicals, who applied the screw unmercifully. ...

... dailies. The Flintshire election, at which Lord Grosvenov is the Whig, and Major Hughes, of Kinmel Park, the Consei-vativecandidate,isaffordinganoteworthyexampleo'the manner in which the Whigs trim the sails of their political creed in order to fall in with ...

... public career in the Lower House voted on all occasions with the Whig party, and, although uufrequent speaker in the House of Peers, invariably supported the views and measures of the Whig Governments. On the death of his father, in October, 183«J, he succeeded ...

... their pockets. The two Beaumontfl were usual, found working for the Whigs, in order earn the much-coveted and long-desired title. Mr. Somerset Beaumont is determined to conciliate both Whigs and Radicals : while he votes for every measure brought forward ...

... it is no longer a simple question of finance. It is now a political question : the existence of the Whig Radical Cabinet hangs by it; because the Whigs are threatened with the loss of Radical support unless they brow-beat the House of Lords. That House ...

... the country, whenever that opinion has a fair opportunity of being expressed, untram melled by mere Whig or Tory influence. liope the mere Whigs will appreciate this compliment. They voted for the Budget, almost to a man, and this is the way which ...

... Majesty's Ministers once at least during his year of office, without reference to his own estimate of their merits, whether Whigs, Radicals, or Conservatives happen, for the time being, to be in power. As a matter of course, under these circumstances, both ...

... position. Only eighteen months previously he had issued a proclamation abolishing them and the system altogether; and the Whigs in the House of Commons were loud in advocating it. From China, we learn that the expedition up the Yang tse River was looked ...