... difficulty with which our Whig-Radical contemporaries have had to contend. One section attributes the defeat to Mr. having the damaging support of Mr. Bright, whose extreme notions are not palatable to respectable men of Whig principles; the more advanced ...

... existing government would be to drive back the cause they have at heart all over the world. The literary Whig would feel for Italy, as the more muscular Whig feels for reform, and the party would be once more united on the double resolve to keep out Lord Derby ...

... has well been observed in relation to the recent election of a third representative for South Lancashire, that what the Whigs gave, the Tories have taken away. Such has really- been the fact, but the circumstance ought not to excite any surprise in ...

... concerning Reform, are now apathetic about the success of Whig or Tory. Matters are now coming to dead lock, when parties, being nearly equal, the business of the country will come to a stand still. Whigs and Tories are in that position now. The gain to the ...

... whole crime of Ireland at the last assizes, if united in one calendar, would not present such a frightful picture. — Northern Whig. The Irish Church Establishment. — The late cen- sus brings out some highly significant statistics as to tho present and relative ...

... Why, that the tories have willingly and cheerfully been instrumental in passing as many, it not more, good measures than whigs or liberals ; that they have originated aud successfully carried out a number of reforms and amendments, sanitary, legal, and ...

... being rather places with her Majesty’s Opposition. Happily the side of Mr. Cheetham. The constituency for the country the Whigs are never so useful as was large, enlightened, and independent Both when they are a minority in the House of the candidates ...

... House. The refusal of the Whigs, led by Earl Russell, to allow the bill to be shaped in committee occasioned it to be withdrawn, and tbe conseque cc has been that a Reform Bill no longer finds a place in the programme of either Whig or Tory. I remember having ...

... and muscle in its home politics, a tone, in fact, of almost official optimism which we, as Whigs, regret keenly, and which the country does not expect from a Whig ministry. But though on points feeble and unsatisfactory, the cabinet is, even in personnel ...

... landlords. Moreover, there Is a pretty general opinion now-a-days that the difference between the modern Tory and the modern Whig Is very slight indeed, and that in some respects that difference is decidedly in favour of the former. There are not a few ...

... connected with the town of Sheffield, and I believe I can say with the greatest frankness that whether the man who went up was Whig, Tory, Radical, Churchman or Dissenter, it made no difference whatever. (Hear, hear.) So far as I regard Sir John Ramsden, ...

... that a manufacturing constituency, like that of South Lancashire, should have rejected him. Had Mr. Cheetham simply been a Whig, we should have seen nothing in the result to deplore. But he is an enlightened and earnest, though not violent Liberal. Mr ...