... and passed, and the Whigs would have been compelled afterwards to introduce another bill, going still further, in order to regain their prestige as Liberals and Reformers. We must here remark, that a Reform measure passed by the Whigs, with a Conservative ...

... Formerly, was described as a Conservative, and now is the i*rop and the of Whig Administration. . Mr. Gladstone is to be their mouthpiece in the House. But he is no more Whig than Peel or Palmerston were, or than Mr. Disraeli or Mr. Newdegate are. It ...

... of Lancaster, certain highly respectable Whig ladies, whose Bible is the Peerage, have not slept comfortably in their beds; while the heart-burnings that have ensued among faithful retainers of the great Whig party are too affecting to chronicle. Some ...

... the countries in behalf of which the interposition of Whig interference has been most conspicuous, and what will be the answer? Has Greece prospered under the rule inaugurated by the promptings of Whig inspiration? The second constitution of the dynasty ...

... snggeeted— not ' that in order to neutralise the extreme of Mr. Fostee and Mr. Stansfeld, Mr, Beioiit, now that has become a Whig, ought also to have a place the Government ...

... are prophesying Brahmins in the great Whig house somewhere, and I dare say they are foretelling all sorts of evils that may come from the palming of this BilL I have heard a member—and a member since then of a Whig Cabinet —declare that he believed that ...

... an excen- tric Whig. The name is perhaps as convenient as another. He would not have called himself that, j but, as party names are nicknames, he accepts the j nickname. He would have called himself au old ) Whig, without the orthodox Whig belief in the ...

... These concessions we should have obtained if the Catholic Whig Liberals could have restrained their impatience for a little and have abstained from bringing in the Whigs. But our Catholic Whig Liberals would not endure it. They scoffed at, and derided ...

... are prophesying Brahmins in the great Whig house somewhere, and I dare say they are foretelling all sorts of evils that may come from the passing of this Bill. I have heard a member—and a member since then of a Whig Cabinet—declare that he believed that ...

... different times found favour with men of very various political and moral views ; by Mr. Pitt and Lord Castlereagh ; by eminent whig statesmen ; by men who regard moral and political agencies chiefly as a means of political rule, and by thinkers who, like ...

... that if this Government fall, presided over by the most eminent statesman now living of the Whig party, we are likely to see the entire extinction of the Whigs as a governing party in the affairs of this country. But whether the Government are equal to ...

... the Whig, and the Conservative to these principles of Constitutionalism form the greater portion of this volume. It would exceed the dimensions and space at our disposal to consider at length these answers. It must suffice to say that the Whig party ...