... earnest Free- trader. The Whigs were not Free-traders 9 and therefore he could not join the Whigs. For years this gentleman led the forlorn hope against Protection amidst the jeers of the squires, and with no sanport from the Whigs.- At length, however, the ...

... those whom he addressed. There was another special reason why reform muist be talked of, and that was because both a Tory and Whig Ministry had put into the Queen's mouth a speech upon the subject, and had thus deliberately brought the matter forward before ...

... Commons, as Earl Easton, who succeeds to the dukeilom, was member for Thetford. The Duke of Grafton is always a Whig, one of those hereditary Whigs who trans- mit their principles with their estates. Lord Henry Fitzroy, a son of the late Duke, will take Earl ...

... that Toryism in Edin- burgh can afford to do without the support of a divided and decaying section of the Parliament- House Whigs, thus expresses itself in reference to the approaching banquet to Lord Palmer- ston:- Whatever splendour the List of Stewards ...

... unprincipled cha- racter of the Whig Government. Seat after seat escapes the Whigs, and the Tory members must now be in an absolute majority. In these cir- cumstances a vigorous demand for Reform from below would galvanise the Whig benches into action. Men who ...

... *[r Dymockc belonged to the Liberal party; but all electors must now know that he belongs to that mongrel party of Tory and Whig that now exists among us. I hope the committee that brought forward Mr Lewis will hold together, and be able to tell Mr Jamieson ...

... British sentiments. The Whig organ that proclaimed on Friday evening, with astonudiug effrontery, that the sympathy of the English people is with the slave-owning Confederacy -must be dismayed to find the greatest of our Whig statesmen declaring on ...

... for life. I think if I were Sir William I should take the judgeship, and for this reason. If the Whig Governmentt were to fail, he would go; but if the Whigs were to come in again would they have Sir Wil- liamn Atherton again for Attorney-General? I doubt ...

... may be described as something like that between Tweedledumn and Tweedledee. On the extension of the suffrage, Mr Cowper, the Whig candidate, would not go so far as was proposed by Lord Derby's Reform Bill-he would extend it to individuals not to classes ...

... Dnn-Jases and Hopes-enjoyed the whole Government patronage f6r Scotland. After the Reform Act all this was changed, and the Whigs obtained the patronage which was formerly exercised by the Tories. Now, suppose that Lord. Melville, the head of the Duxidases ...

... by stepping upon -our shoulders, and who, when theirfend is served, wield what they have got to keep us undermost, to let Whigs and - 'eelites find their. true level. ,We feather the siaft which pierces our own *bosoms.B These are considerations which ...

... Treanury M.P.; as ai Junior Lord he must have signed and countersigned a variety of documents * as one of the ?? whips of the Whig party, no doubt he made him. self useful to his friends at more than one political crisis; and personally he was much esteemed ...