... the harness proving too heavy before its close. What then ? Scores of candidates offer them- selves to the electors, not as Whigs, not as adherents 1 of Earl Russell or Mr Gladstone, or as holding the o opinions of either the one or the other, but as sup- ...

... nobleman whose savoir faire and dignified courtesy become the position of Leader of the House of Peers, and Lord Clarendon is a Whig of many traditions, and faithful to them all. But great as the merits and the claims of all these great men are, the Ministerial ...

... probably leave some of his readers more in the dark on the matter of constitu- tional principles than they expected, from the Whig leader who drew up the law by which our national representation is at present ruled. On this subject he says:- There were evidently ...

... time connected with this locality, has handed as an address to his brother electors, in es which the comparative claiums of Whigs and Conserva- W tives to credit for fiscal reforms, are discussed with a le clearness and ability which Mr Locke King and Mr ...

... Coem. moos more minutely, we shall find tham approxiesately tlin are- Dsrbyite Conservatives . 285 Conservsties unached. 5 Whig. and Pein iabe . 2n9 lIadicals and GIladto.nie.,. 105 Toe Pope's Brass Ban r e 3 I believe the above figures are As ...

... amiss for a juvenile politician to be in less hurry to run a muck even at old Tory statesmen, to say nothing of all the great Whig greybeards-before he has digested his political spoon-meat. ...

... Radical Or- he gans assume virtues to men of their own way of thinking, 1 ir- wbich they utterly deny to their opponents. To be a Whig or a Radical is to be above all the wretched influences which are supposed to possess the soul of a Conservative. Accord- h ...

... business with the accompaniments of a good'dinner and better wine. For something like a quarter of a century the influence of Whig doctrines 3 and reform Bills frightened Town Council~ors and Har- bour Commissioners, and all such public bodies, at the fvery ...

... Chancellor of the Exchequer, Bhould be a member of the Rouse of Commons, it is needless to complain of a state of things which Whig I traditionsmake it nearly impossibleto remedy, except to t the extent that party exigencies in the House of Coin- mons may ...

... nace, not enlyli Sp'ringfild, but in the State. He toknc leech interest in politics, ands asttachced himself strongly to the 'Whig is party ; anu his rough hut ,irect, eloquenice wast of grust service y to his party. Ilie 1814-h11,ivig Ila the iiiterval ...

... down old Tory obstruction on the other. I may, he says, sum ] up the condition of parties in one brief expression. While Whigs and Tories are quarrelling, Republican- 1 ism is advancing. This is au unsound state of things, and what I want to see in the ...

... ally themselves w with the only party which recognises the theory of progress - even in ecclesiastical administration. The Whigs have, t, i the support of the most active class-those who really de- r sire to change this, that, or the other institution ...