... far enough. Nobody can tell what may come of a popular excitement so intense as that we now see. One of the most staid of our Whig con- temporaries has said of it, in an unguarded moment, that it is a turning point in our time. But who wants the time to ...

... would have carried more authority than he now does. I am not prepared to go so far as went Sir William Hayter, who, to the Whig party, was the type of what a whipper- in should be, when in conversation with a political supporter, who had uttered soihe ...

... parents unhappily have only to decline wages for their children in order to decline the education too but it is pleasant to see a Whig Duke with courage enough to express boldly a belief as yet so unpopular. It is true he was speaking to working men, and, if ...

... are afraid that the motion at present abroad of the narrow differences between Liberals and Conservatives is dangerous to Whig- gism, and thus they are bent upon introducing some ultra-Liberal measures. Hence the cry is to be, I Gladstone and Reform ...

... Exchequer has proved himself to be should become so close an imitator of the tactics of his great master. The old fashioned Whigs say very little, but are not the less thoughtful. Mr. Marsh, the Liberal member for Salisbury, who with his colleague General ...

... the House ot Commons with scarcely any intermission since June, 1830, and has always been a thick and thin supporter of the Whig party. Mr. Fox, J.P., agent to Lord Palmerston on his Sligo estates, received a threatening letter a few days since through ...

... do but to say what a happy people we are, and how delightful it is to be uRder the government of Lord Palmers to l and his Whig col- leagues, then I can assure you that I will not trouble you with saying anything. I shall leave you to find it out, and ...

... The welcome which all parties have tendered to this simple-minded, disinterested man proves that in this—the land of the free—Whig, Tory, and Radical can lay aside all personal differences when a man of great deeds, and who is known to be trully honest, ...

... efore from the same cause. ^ia in the sPectator on the history of the tl family, thus alludes to the enormous wealth great whig family Francis, the seventh and of jjp ^.e °f Bedford, followed much the same course e with his father—like him preferring ...

... particular feelings and opinions which he may entertain on politics or religion. The old lawyer who, when asked whether he was a Whig or a Tory, replied that he was a special pleader, is often referred to in a sense by no means complimen- tary to the sincerity ...

... course would be sheer madness. Nevertheless the Tories believed it, for, say they, Lord Palmerston's popularity is all that the Whigs have to go to the country with, and fearing that some accident might deprive them of that before the spring or autumn, ministers ...

... could not take his seat as Duke of Brandon, but the Queen named him ambassador extra- ordinary to the Court of France. The Whig's were thereby exasperated, and Lord Mohun, the very Hector of that party, adding public to private hatred (the families of ...