... 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 ...

... Opposition. But for the control of the illustrious Minister, it would have been impossible for the different sections of the Whig-Radical Coalition to have held together after the rejection of Lord Russell's universally condemned Reform Bill. The conviction ...

... the small but noisy band of Radicals in full cry, and will have to conciliate them while striving to retain the good will the Whig-Liberals, and to disarm the hostility of a powerful and united Conservative Opposition. After an election that has nominally ...

... recognise the establishment of the Empire in 1852, he being the actual occupant of the Foreign Office on the 2nd December. The Whigs only came into power five weeks after that event; but, his lordship adds, that doubtless they would have taken the same cordial ...

... present occupy of Downing-street have made a worse hash than have of the half-hearted attempt to put dowfli Maori rebellion. The Whigs are fond of little * and invariably mismanage them. ha y e 1 1 °? g been - aware that in *c United states a violent aversion ...