... To breathe freely under such atmospheric conditions, a man must be born a Whig. But Mr. Churchward had the misfortune to be a Conservative, and so, when he agreed with these Whig Lords to do so much work for so much money, for such a period, he really ...

... of the country under the predominance of Whig clique, which was subsequently effected in 1688, Lord Russell intended by his Bill, and nothing but the Bill, to vest exclusive power in the hands of the modern Whigs through the intervention of the middle classes ...

... Still there were many of the old Whigs that were refractory. Lord John Russell, to whom the introduction of the measure in the House of Commons, was entrusted in order to overcome the reluctance of the Constitutional Whigs, assured them that the measure ...

... hate the very name—Church-rate :— For why Because the Church I hate 1 Whig Churchman •' These words make me with anger swell .— For why? love the Church so well 1 Churchman, but Whig- - Wonders, sure will never cease :— Lo ! friends and foes combine ...

... by enlarging the rural districts—the Tories, generally, would be the gainers, and the Whigs the losers. Therefore the single members were retained. This was the Whig motive pure and undefiled. We speak from positive knowledge. In justice it must be remarked ...

... retire. This gentleman was elected at first as a Whig, by both parties. In 1839 he addressed letter his constituents stating that recent public events had compelled him to oppose the policy of the Whigs, and that as there was no other choico than to be ...

... of Lord Palmerston from office so far back as the year 1850. Austria, Bavaria and Saxony, awakened by the machinations of Whig England for the aggrandisement of Prussia, by opposing the Prussian annexation of the Danish Duchies have given evidence of ...

... condition. The country, too, is becoming every day more and more Conservative in its feeling. The long tenure of office by the Whig Radicals has involved the nation in so many misfortunes, that the people are anxious for a change. The sketch of the state ...

... THB WHI&3 OF AULD LANO SZNR. (Tte Premier and the Should supporters be forjot, And never brought to mind Should Whigs remembered not Whigs of auld RTVft. For old syne, friends. For auld lang syne; We'll ye baith Peerage yet. For auld laug syue. We three ...

... he do with it ? What he would like to do with it would, of course, be to turn the Government offices into a snug nest for Whig bantlings. There is a nice little brood of them coming on, and the paternal bird must contemplate with anxious eye the bare ...

... the adoption of Free Trade, when the abolition of the malt duty was spoken of Whig statesmen as an event that must of necessity happen, and yet the descendants of these Whig statesmen now get up in their places in Parliament and defend the retention of ...

... paraded ' on the Tory side the House, was what is now termed Liberal Conservative; in other and simpler phraseology, a moderate Whig. Sympathising with Canning in his earnest advocacy of Catholic Emancipation, and in his encouragement of freedom abroad, Lord ...