... been chiefly in favour of the government, in one or two remarkable instances it has received a check, and * Appeal to the Old Whigs, in others its conduct has been swayed by tho desire to avoid attacks which were sure to reach the country as soon as made ...

... vigorous existence. The Cabinet of All the Talents was the Cabinet of all the contradictions. Heterogeneous in its composition, a Whig-Radical Coalition got up on a false capital in a fashionable room, like a spurious mercantile speculation or advertising bubble ...

... actually persuaded supporters of the Government that their assertions are true, and sent them off in a dream of everlasting Whig Administrations, an Opposition divided against itself, and owning allegiance to half-a-dozen leaders, or fighting each man ...

... behalf. No one who ever reads Liberal newspaper is allowed to forget it for single week. There never is any evidence fo the Whigs ; and their journals, therefore, rin eternally the changes on their one argument — abuse of the Conservative leader. Like the ...

... heavy taxation, and war estimates in time of peace, it has done good service ere now to a tottering administration ; and the Whigs evidently reckon on their old bugbear to keep their opponents at bay till the close of the session. Now, we not l>elieve the ...

... last hundred years at least there has not been a single Whig ministry whicii has excelled in finance. In- deed, we shall more nearly express the truth if we say that, in this respect, every Whig ministry has proved a failure. The present administration ...

... For the last hundred years at least there has not been single Whig ministry which has excelled in finance. Inleed, shall more nearly express the truth if we say that, in this respect, every Whig ministry has proved failure. The present administration appears ...

... the great Conservative party, whose opinions you so ably represent, to the notice of Lord R. Cecil's motion against tho New Whig Burial Bill, whereby it is proposed to give all sects a concurrent jurisdiction and authority in churchyards with the ministers ...

... Lord Derby's Government desired to have performed j but after Lord Palm_rston's approval of the con- tract, tlie most zealous Whig and conscientious whipper-in must surely pause before throwing dirt again. When the question comes to be reconsidered on an ...

... , and the sacrifice tliek: agents as atonement for their own blunders is not an event without a precedent in the anna's of Whig Governments, 'the publication of the papers will show whether such really the case. Some attention liai Leon excited by the ...

... aud the sacrifice of their agents as an atonement for their ewn blunders is not an event without a precedent hi tho annals of Whig Goveruments. The publica- tion of the papers will show whether such be really the case. Some attention has been excited by ...

... case, regard as very welltimed the pamphlet in which Sir M. Peto enters his emphatic protest against the defensive policy the Whig Ministry and the recommendation of the Defence Commissioners. We not approve the tone in which lie speaks of the latter, and ...