... indecent, if not absolutely unconstitutional, to perpetuate the system which has converted tbe Metropolis of the Empire into a Whig close borough, and to make, as far as possible, Mr. Wood's return secure. they bad confined themselves to fair fighting, we ...

... into which Sir Robert seems so suddenly to have fallen; but when he does awake, perhaps he will become aware that even the Whig-Radical press is not so entirely in that pleasant mood which he fancies. Here is a specimen of what one branch of that portion ...

... considerable interest. The Whig-Radicals have not been opposed in the City since 1852, and the Conservatives have neglected to purge the register of bad votes. Still, although defeated, the Conservatives made a capital fight, and the Whig Lord John Russell is ...

... their cards to Tablet Office (as has been pointed out), were respectively none other than the editor and sub-editor of that Whig-Roman journal; both of whom I am informed, were on the Committee and alone opposed Father Lavelle's proposition that Mr. Hennessey ...

... pale, but their nostrums were eschewed alike by Whig and Tory, and the principles of good and free govern- ment which those nostrums mistakenly represented were acknowledged as much by Conservatives as by Whigs, and as much by both us by Chartists and Republicans ...

... and the idea of Conservative intrusion scarcely entered the brain of the most imaginative. But an event never contemplated by Whig statesmen, and beyond the control of politicians any hue, necessitated an appeal to the sulfrage of Loudon electors. We refer ...

... which otherwise it might not attain. Selkirk election has given another warning of the dangerous edged tools with wliich the Whigs and Liberals work in carving their way to official employment. As at Tynemouth, London, and elsewhere, mob violence freely ...

... man’s name, and Lord John Russell has always maintained that had the effect of destroj-ing the symmetry of the Whig measure, and frustrating Whig expectations in the counties. n 1830 he obtained a select committee the House of Commons for the consideration ...

... most influential constituency in the empire had designedly intended to reverse its vote of confidence in him as leader of the Whig and ' Reform party and to declare its disapproval of his foreign policy. The blow would have told with equal severity upon ...

... Affairs, is referred to hopefully, and as redeeming the recent changes from the imputation of a mere shuffle among the old Whig houses. Among the great measures of the Session the Irre- movable Poor Bill has passed its last danger opposition in tbe .House ...

... certainly men's minds. Reform is given up by the Whigs. has not always gone into the same lobby. The Th e b a ttle of civil and religious liberty, which used to exceptions may not have been very many, but do the Whigs some service, was fought long ago, then they ...

... the banquetting rooms at Guildhall resounded so loudly with cheers honour of any former Lord Mayor. At his hospitable table Whig and Tory a' agreed Lord Derby vaunting the reaction in his favour, and predicting an early party victory, and Mr. Cobden ...