... been stirred up to divert popular attention from reform. He believed that Mr. Gladstone would come out from the in- breeding Whig party and take a lead in the reform ques- tion. A vote of confidence in the hon. gentleman was passed at the close of his speech ...

... intentions were honourable, and also not unwelcome. But when explicit declaration became necessary, it appeared that the great Whig orator's notions were liberal and anti-matrimonial Peremptory dismissal followed; and not long after Lord Derby became the ...

... 1768-at the great election-two Tories were declared duly elected, but the House of Commons soon unseated them, and put two Whigs in their stead; and since that time there has never been more than one Tory member of parlia- ment for Preston at a time, and ...

... excited to discontent. The success which crowned the efforts of the Anti-Corn Law League is a matter of history. When the Whigs came into office, in 1846, Mr. Gibson's services met with only aslight acknowledgment; he was made Vice-President of the Board ...

... be respects the volunteer movement, namely, in advanced atage of dusolntion. —Yours, Burnley, 2ird January, 1865. TWIG (Not Whig.) PROFESSING CHURCHMEN’S CONSISTENCY the Editor 0} the fretton JleraUl. Sir,—A page in your Saturday's issue contains subject ...

... all about the same old weary story, over and over again, of retrenchmentand reform and progress—not one of which the osedup Whigs and ever realise for us; but, instead, and by depending for their expiring existence on their Radical allies, are progressing* ...

... rapport of the directors at ordinary awwmffil meetings. u . ..Thirdly* tost our deeceodeotc in the next generation lee the Whigs are doing in this) most look tnemeelree •afy. make the best of whatever evil* they may then lohent the fruiU of any misrule ...

... Davis for peace would to recognise the nationality the South. The Kichmond papers generally oppose the visit of Mr. Blair. The Whig says the Blairs deserve hanging. The Examiner warns the Government against fratoraising with individual enemies and spies, ...

... their seeing it They bed had for many years liberal leader bora and brad in Tory camp, who, having spent middle Ufa among the Whigs, seems his riper age to revert heart the fond recollections of political childhood.—(Cheers.) But the ascendency of the genial ...

... to pay the oasts the motion. Whig I* hospitality. —The London correspondent of the Belfast Newsletter says -The Whigs were never very remarkable dor hospitality, or even courtesy. I remember occasion on which well-known Whig Bishop allowed a learned society ...

... iotic purpose of enabling certain Whig politicians continue the uninterrupted enjoyment of Place, Pat, and Patronage, for them* aelvc-*, their relatives, and other numerous dependents. Hie leading members of the Whig party (disguised in Liberal clothing) ...

... of our Eastern territories; al and it was a lamentable specimen of party chance when ry he was succeeded by that most Whig of all Whigs, Sir t, Charles Wood. The county, therefore, instinctively puts as faith in all of the Stanley lace. In the father we ...