... when the Tories were driven from power by the Whig cry of peace, retrenchment, and reform,' the civil service expenditure only amounted to 1,872,0007.; but it was now 8,000,000/. Out of the 30 years the Whigs had held office 27 years, and there could be ...

... one of your Whig-supporting contemporaries asserts to-day that, with this verdict of the [louse of Commons the country will be satisfied. I for one protest against the truth of the above assertion, and beg to be allowed to ask the Whig organ making ...

... traders by the problematical phases which the Danish war question has assumed, not less by the undignified conduct of our own Whig government than by the conference in London, whose protracted efforts to settlb a complicated question must now soon come to ...

... the regular soldiers. Sir William appeared in the witness box to read this letter, with a view to prove a quoque against the Whigs, that they also had been wiling in the hour of their distress to dabble in rebellion. The judges, however, as soon as they ...

... upon the table. The commissioners themselves were a snug nest of Whigs, and of the forty persons connected with them as inspectors and clerks every one, without exception, belonged to the Whig party. Their appointments to inspectorships had been ch aracterised ...

... the county of Limerick, where he possessed considerable preperty in right of his maternal grandfather, as an opponent of the Whig Government. O'Connell was at this time at the height of his supremacy; and Mr. Smith O'Brien set himself doggedly to the task ...

... an act of what my hon. friend (Mr. Ferrand) has called a Whig government, nor to defend the appointments which, in the natural order of things, may have been the appointment of gentlemen of Whig polities ; but knowing the commissioners whose conduct has ...

... and disease, and lose half of our battalions, not in battle, but through the incompetence and short-sighted niggardliness of Whig departments. Mr. CAuDwELL, in his attempt at vindicating the Administration, was officially pedantic, as Mr. C. FORTESCUE was ...

... it has served its purpose excellently. fleet to the Baltic. If this reputation attached to Whig Governments alone it might not much matter; for the day of Whig Governments is well nigh ended. We doubt very much whether any one who has now reached middle ...

... whole British trade must in time be abandoned. This • would be a stain on our Legislature 3 and a lasting ; disgrace to the Whig Government. As it is, • several of the small mills have had to close. Only the large houses can stand the unjust ordeal. English ...

... condemned. The principle of the bill was bad. It was another instance of that love of centralisation which is the characteristic of Whig Governments. But the mode in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer attempted to carry it through an unwilling house was worse; ...