... is verv difficult to distinguish Tories from Whigs. We have been in this state for the last three or four years, and it seems likely to become for the present the normal condition of our politics. The Whigs have intimated their desire to rest “and be thankful ...

... 27. Whig objections, 9; sustained, 8. Conservative gain, 19. MITFORD HUNDRED.—Conservative objections, 34; sustained, 29. Whig objections, 16; sustained, 10. Conservative gain, 19. SHROPHAM HUNDRED.—Conservative objections, 30; sustained, 23. Whig objections ...

... admirable in the nse of calumny as the Whig party, and that everything that calumny can desire, or that lying can supply, will be adopted by that party. I really cannot help congratulating Lord Palmerston and the Whig party on the honourable and learned ...

... admirable in the use of calumny as the Whig party, and that everything that calumny can desire, or that lying can supply, will be adopted by that party. I really cannot help congratulating Lord Palmerston and the Whig party on the honourable and learned ...

... of both—namely, a general policy of freedom, civil and religious. The Whigs, for the last fifty years have been RR much beholden to Dissenters as Ifissentere have been to the Whigs. Brougham and Jeffrey, Horner and Sydney Smith, Earl Grey and Lord John ...

... pledges the Whigs forward with their scheming preparations for general election. course it is the interest of that political section which at all hazards desires to support Mr. Gladstone and his small school, play into the hands of tho Whigs the Liberals ...

... were Whigs, Radicals, or Peelites ; and there were but three absentees on the Conservative side. The composition of the House of Commons at this date, taking credit for Buckinghamshire would aear to be — Conservatives proper ..3r5 • Whigs, Radicals ...

... selves a long lease of office. And in this they have completely succeeded. The Reform Act of , 1831 was a Whig bill and nothing more. Since ! then the Whigs have evinced a determination that it shall not go further. Earl Russell, their great leader, declared ...

... pretended that the Conservatives broke down. The only remedy was to restore the Whigs to power. A retrospect of five years enables us to test the heaven - descended power of the Whigs, and we must say it is one which stands in need of all that the doctrine of ...

... Surtees has replaced was a good whig. But his death evidently left the whig party in doubt as to the return of a man of the right colour as his successor. No time was lost. The dead whig was not buried when the living whig-ling was sent forth to crave the ...

... scribed and discriminated. While admitting, of course, Macaulay's great Whig predelictions, Mr Kebbel remarks that nature had intended him for a Conservative, but accident had made him a Whig, premising that his (Macaulay's) political principles were almost ...

... political history of the last 30 years is the history mainly of Whig tergiversation, the gradual abandonment by Whig politicians of all their original constitutional positions. In 1835 even the Whigs surrendered the Irish Church, which war saved by the vigorous ...