... history of the next few years must have amp!y justi- fied, even in the eyes of the Whigs, the line of con- duct. which Mr. Cobden thought it his duty to the . Cobden accepted the public to follow. Had presidency of the Board of Trade, Lord Palmerston’s ...

... the main divisions of the great political parties of the State. Lord Palmerston represents what Mr. Bright calls the old ol Whigs, Lord Stanley the intelligent and thoughful section of the Opposition, the Tories of the futurei and Mr. Bright represents ...

... parliamentary rtfarm, but he ought membered that the hlslmy of the Whig party for the last thirty years had been that of pledges loostly and instantaneously broken. In point of fact a Whig office was ao ugly dog well munled. He complained tuatuo promise ...

... forward, form the real strength of the Government of Lord Palmerston, j And neither of these men a Whig of Lord Palmerston’s s'amp. A Ministry of Whigs of his stamp could not carry on the Government for six weeks. fact, even with Gladstone, Gibson and ...

... “nd* ° rte mstitol wist! to preserve than a policy 01 trank and lonest concession. Mr. warns both the Conservatives and the Whigs against nskrnga elution by postponing the consideration of the . f the people to a voice in the government of Wintry. He tells ...

... they are the natural fruit of the long course of systematic misgovernment. to which the Irish have been subjected, by both Whig and Tory Administrations, but especially and pre-eminently Tory statesmen. The state of Ireland is infinitely better now than ...

... useless to disguise from ourselves that Mr. Gladstone does not r present every section of the greal Liberal paity, that the old Whigs who would follow Lord Bussell if he were to proclaim the five points of the Charter the watchwords of his policy are simply ...

... Treaty of Commerce, and that in a way quite discredits his judgment. But it is useless these specnlatioos. Lord Russell is Whig atrrtseottaf the hardest, coldest, most exclusive school; MS That is said of him in to-day’s Times is trne. wut, &hw can, and ...

... fifteen members of the cabinet in tbe Honse of Lords. Believe me, shuffling of the old offiuial cards —no re-arrangement of mete Whigs, Wbiglings, or Peelites, can or aught to satisfy the country at this juncture. The result of tbe last election has demonstrated ...

... politician to atody the graces of literary expression, his hand was sharply felt in the Tory mischief then going on. The “New Whig Guide,” pleasant battery directed against tbe Liberal opposition, was mainly, wa believe, written Lord Palmerston, Sir Robert ...

... with them as to the manner in which they should dispose of their votes. 1 think what he calls the old Whigs somebody once called the “old, old Whigs.” (Laughter.) They are getting very much out of favour with the great body ot the Liberal party, and I ...

... Hill is to the Radicals of Manchester and Salford, and has been for nearly forty years, what Holland House, used to be to the Whigs of Westminster and St James’s. Its pictures, its statues, its books, are all historical. They are all. or nearly all, associated ...