... trusted, reform is abhorred; if Liberal financiers be cordially disliked, liberal finance is a byword. and a reproach; if Whigs be unpopular, Whiggery is an abomination. On the other hand, it is far easier to damage Conservative statesmen than to shake ...

... perhaps, more by legislation than by the want of it ; and as a general rule, England has reason to congratulate herself if a Whig Ministry allow a session to close without perpetrating any enormously expensive blunder or committing some ruinous and irr ...

... house would pause before committing itself to this ruinous expenditure (cheers). It had been stated that efficiency under a Whig government meant increased expenditure. He should like to know if the converse held true, namely, that increased expenditure ...