... very conviction of the necessity for a careful and enlightened measure of reform that militates against the success of the Whigs in the present contest. With the recollection of 1859 fresh in their memories, constituencies find it impossible to believe ...

... the intelligence of the people and the enterprising spirit of our merchants. We owed to the Whigs the jobbing and bribery which existed. Jobbery is at a Whig's birth ; it attends him at his maturity, and he goes down in jobbery. No faith was to be placed ...

... come forward. This requisition has been already numerously signed. There was a rumour that Mr. Handley, the senior member, a Whig of the old school, would retire, but this has been dispelled, his committee having announced to the electors that Mr. Handley ...

... come forward. This requisition has been already numerously signed. There was a rumour that Mr. Handley, the senior member, a Whig of the old school, would retire, but this has been dispelled, his committee having announced to the electors that Mr. Handley ...

... old remark that the Whigs and the Radicals differ more from each other in point of political opinion than the Whigs and the Conservatives ; but the remark received new illustration from the reform debate of the present year. The Whig speakers who conducted ...

... As we are on the eve of a general election it may not be amiss just to review what has been the policy and actions of the Whigs during the last 70 years ; and I think, sir, I can prove it has always been that of imposture, pretence, and delusion. I will ...

... Grey, son of Lord Walsingham, as a candidate in opposition to Mr. B. Gurdon, the Whig sitting member for the division. There is at present a compromise between the Whig and Conservative leaders, Mr. G. W. P. Bentinek and Mr. B. Gurdon having been returned ...

... what was in the speech. This course, like most inconsistent and vacillating movements, did him no service with the prejudiced Whigs of his own party, who still look upon him as a dangerous innovation, while it shook the confidence of the Liberals and checked ...

... what was in the speech. This course, like most inconsistent and vacillating movements, did him no service with the prejudiced Whigs of his own party, who still look upon him as a dangerous innovation, while it shook the confidence of the Liberals and checked ...

... upright iu Britain, we woold unhesitatingly reply —John Might. Maligned and a;.••ken against in every stay for years, by both Whigs and furies, he has boldly fats , ' his political foes, torn their argnmt itti in pieces, exposed their cunning. and risen above ...

... some little irritable speculation as to the possibility of a small Reform Bill, introduced to redeem pro- mises, and give old Whigs a chance in doubtful boroughs, but there all visible interest ends. If the Queen had judged herself able to do her duty for ...

... popularity represented, and that power will be all the more missed should there be a tendency to form an Administration of pure Whigs.' The likelihood at present is that the death of the late Premier will be followed by sharper distisetioo of pieties than there ...