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... they would themselves be probably un- equal, butin a Conservative trying-to persuade his constituents that he is very like a Whig, the enterprise is too audacious, and one at once suspects insincerity. Is it possible that Mr. Smollett is ambitious of emulating ...

... ith both Whig and Tory birds are one and the same le. species v with variations. That this proposi- in tion requires to be defended and still furthersup ported is no mere imagination of ours. On the of contrary, as already said, both Whig and Tory le ...

... intellect- (great laughter)-and he thought a Whig was truly described by a man who said dogmatically, A Whig is a tyrant in office and a tyrant out ' -(laughter). He did not, however, think that the Whigs had any desire to do damage to the Church of ...

... attempts were made for its abolition, which, like similar attempts to deal with Church-rates, were defeated by Whig and Tory opposition. In 1860 the Whigs undertook to settle the matter by a political shuffle, such as is often recommended in the English case ...

... both-namely, a general policy of free. do dom, civil and religious. . The Whigs, for the ol o0 last fiftyyears, have been as much beholden to li - Dissenters as Dissenters have been to the Whigs na 30 Brougham and Jeffrey, Horner and Sydney Smith, tl Earl Grey ...

... been when the people looked to the Whigs as their true and staunch friends ; but it is no longer possible to conjure with either Whig names or WVhig watch- words. Every old distinctive principle with which the Whigs were wont to rally the country round ...

... this county-(apphlause)-a ?? not nominated in a bye-street in .Markinch, and sup- ported by the influence of the old rusty Whig party, but a Radical who aims at independence, who would glory in the expression of the inde- pendence of the free electors ...

... Whiggeiy, de for a large part of those who. are now classed- tic as Tories are substantially Whigs. This ' of very fact shows the disintegration of the gr- Whig party and its incipient dissolution. wi .A'ndt sob, Whlle 'Whiggery is dying, Ipeople: th -begin ...

... 8as'happ' to say he never waa a Whig, and: he ;prayed Gd he never might be-(lasighter)-for he was of opinion that a Whigg was a creature completely. 'oit of the pale of all 'intellect--(great'iaughter)- and he thougbt a Whig was truly described by a :,man ...

... be excluded. An election is at handl. -Why may not this be asked now and obtainqd'by the body~ f the people ? IUading. old. Whigs in' Eugia~d and 'Scotland have favourably entertained such an amendment of the Xepresettation; and I also know that alate, ...

... .onsomy and reduction of the Income-tax. list 0hen that terrible test of an M.P.'s con- ?? comes a little closer, will our Whig MIl'.'s feel quite so comefortable in having no good deed to boast of exempt ties, that they kept on an income-tax for five ...