... offices. If Messrs. Cobden and Bright were to fall foul of the Cabinet, the family party would soon be put in a minority, and the Whig placemen, who have governed the country so long that they look upon Downing Street as a sort of Freehold, would no longer be ...

... themselves entirely irrespective of the tremen- dous issues in the continuation of the cold-blooded and apathetic policy which the Whigs have exhibited towards the heroic people who, at the other end of the world, are jaboring to throw off the hated despotism ...

... on almost all political questions. It is impossible to tell by the speech which he makes whether a Member of Parliament be Whig or Tory. Each party, taught by experience and convinced by discussion, has learnt to abate much of its extreme pretensions ...

... Treasury M.P.: as a ' 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 himself useful to his friends at more than one political crisis; and personally he was much esteem d ...

... rather hear honest Tory sing the glories of England’s old institutions and her present prosperity, than listen to some shallow Whig promising comprehensive measure of Reform, which it is absurd to expect from the present Administration, unless there is greater ...