... paraded ' on the Tory side the House, was what is now termed Liberal Conservative; in other and simpler phraseology, a moderate Whig. Sympathising with Canning in his earnest advocacy of Catholic Emancipation, and in his encouragement of freedom abroad, Lord ...

... recognise the establishment of the Empire in 1852, he being the actual occupant of the Foreign Office on the 2nd December. The Whigs only came into power five weeks after that event; but, his lordship adds, that doubtless they would have taken the same cordial ...

... Opposition. But for the control of the illustrious Minister, it would have been impossible for the different sections of the Whig-Radical Coalition to have held together after the rejection of Lord Russell's universally condemned Reform Bill. The conviction ...

... the small but noisy band of Radicals in full cry, and will have to conciliate them while striving to retain the good will the Whig-Liberals, and to disarm the hostility of a powerful and united Conservative Opposition. After an election that has nominally ...

... he do with it ? What he would like to do with it would, of course, be to turn the Government offices into a snug nest for Whig bantlings. There is a nice little brood of them coming on, and the paternal bird must contemplate with anxious eye the bare ...

... traceried church and historic school, their great lacefactory and prosperous industry, are in tin-, gift of the Whigs, and of the Whigs, too, when they select the beaten candidate of the general election to fight the battle of the borough as Lord Pa ...

... pretensions of that heterogeneous party consisting of persons with all sorts of opinions from the mltra-Radicals old-fashioned Whigs. (Hear, hear.) the same time it should be remembered that a very extensive measjire Reform was spoken of, and it was expected ...

... rupture of friendly relations with Spain would be too high a price to pay for a sudden conversion to the cause of Russell and Whig- Radicalism. Spain may have no just cause of complaint against Chili, Admiral Pareja may have behaved very wrongly in his ...

... To breathe freely under such atmospheric conditions, a man must be born a Whig. But Mr. Churchward had the misfortune to be a Conservative, and so, when he agreed with these Whig Lords to do so much work for so much money, for such a period, he really ...

... House of Commons was given to Lord Palmerston. The Daily News says that Mr. Bright's speech was as unlike his old manner a Whig in place unlike a Liberal in expectancy. His unlimited confidence in the Russell Cabinet will disconcert the unfaithful and ...

... of the country under the predominance of Whig clique, which was subsequently effected in 1688, Lord Russell intended by his Bill, and nothing but the Bill, to vest exclusive power in the hands of the modern Whigs through the intervention of the middle classes ...

... That gentleman, he said, had been very severe upon the Tories, but it was only a few months ago he was just as severe on the Whigs, and he flattered them now it was to use them for his own purposes. Mr. Bright expressed great indignation at the ignorance ...