... by the same maxims, working mostly for the same ends, emulous of the like distinction, the Tories have even outstripped the Whigs in upholding a system of intervention, and in their devotion to that miserable fetish, the balance of power. Their orators ...

... Cromwell, the redoubtable Ferrand may take it into his head to lock the doors of the House of Commons, put end to a treacherous Whig Government, and by one and th* same edict proclaim the abolition of the malt tax and the re-imposition of the corn laws. There ...

... that country was alluded to. The unusual dullness of first night was relieved by a couple of smart sayings. Mr. Lono likened a Whig in office to an ugly dog well muzzled, and Mr remarked that Government too much inclined to go in partnership with Providence ...

... throwing it out on a division. There was, he said, upon the Treasury Bench, next the First Lord of the Treasury, once a juvenile Whig, and now called an ancient Minister. his right sat one of his disciples, whom he loved [most dearly—[a laugh gentleman, who ...

... that England was called upon to do so. Bright and the members below the gangway listened to these uncompromising opinions of a Whig military ifficer with singular interest and gratification. Every one could appreciate the honesty, frankness, and intelligence ...

... could recognise a Premier's usual ease, or that felicitous assurance with which sometimes improvises an epitaph on departed Whig. Be was stiff, pompons, and artificial; though happily in his words they appear befors the public this morning, there Is all ...

... looked at from the Whig point of view, on the eve of a general election Having long since abandoned all political faith, they .seek to riile into Parliament upon the political traditions their opponents They tell people that Whigs and Tories are alike ...

... Peelite Conservatives cheered because they remembered Lord J. Russell's Edinburgh letter and the tardy conversion the Whigs ; the Whigs cheered because they gladly gave the credit to Mr. Cobden rather than to the Minister ; and tlve Protectionists cheered ...

... expectation the old leaven was still uppermost. The Whigs regarded the Refoimt-rs instruments for perpetuating their power, and too many of the new members considered themselves vassals the Whigs. The result was universal dissatisfaction the people, ...

... evening paper, literally devoted to the old Whig party, announces that there is just now a in politics —we quote our contemporary's emphasis as well as his words. After the debates Mr. Bainks's Franchise Bill, we find no difficulty in giving credit ...

... many friends of progress, and cause a loss of several seats to the Liberal party. The Whigs will have uneasy time of the hustings next July, ami when a trimming Whig opposed a hearty and sincere Reformer, it is neit doubted which side the sympathies of ...

... the party whose supj-ort their existence, a Ministry, depends. During all this time, while Ministers and their supporter#—Whigs and Radicals, with a good many moderate Conservatives thrown in—have diligently sought to undermine the Constitution, to upset ...