... from genuine reformers, but whenever they are induced to express their unbiassed feelings it is in favour of demands which no Whig will ever voluntarily grant The House of Commons will not readily abdicate its functions, and annihilate its prestige. The ...

... to create anxiety, and that it can inspire little confidence except among those who have been brought up in the 'Whig houses and the Whig faith. To such it is a matter of course that so long as Earl Russell is at the head of affairs, and is seconded by ...

... attempts were made to arrest the r flames, whlich, fanned by the strong breeze then r blowing, quickly enveloped the eastern whig of i the building, but from some unexplained cause Y they could not be used. It is supposed that in the I s excitement of then ...

... is beginning to create anxiety, and that it can inspire little confidence except among those who have beeu in the Whig houses and the Whig faith ; but it isa passage which suggests some painful thoughts on the position occupied by our Indian possessions ...

... prophesying Brahmins iv the great Whig house somewhere—(laughter), and dare say they are foretelling all sorts of evils that may come from the passing of this bill Laughter.) I have heaid a member since then of a Whig Cabinet declare that he believed there ...

... Murrays and the O'Kanes ate together, and there came the last of all, on the evening of the 30th of July. The united families, Whig and Tory. were still at table, when a rush as if of hurrying footsteps was heard in the street ; and Jonas, thinking the end ...

... that amount. The present to ourselves is something solid, certain, and' 't fruc. tifying in our pockets, in the words of the Whig financitr. The sublime piece of delcacy to our remote posterity is visionary, for half the people in this island do not expect ...

... la c a confession of weakness, and appears as U Earl Russell acknowledged to the world [what fact the' truth] that the Whig party, so far a* statesman ship was concerned, was pretty worn ** out. On the whole, seems to us tL'S-fc Mr. Bright has ...

... offices, and that they are little more than bare bones thrown to noisy dogs in order to keep them quiet. Nevertheless tbe Whigs by themselves are so weak, that it is not impossible that they may even yet be compelled to purchase the support of Mr. Bright ...

... the most eminent statesman now living of the Whig party, I think we are likely to see an entire extinction of the Whigs as a governing party in the affairs of this country. (Cheers.) But, sir, whether the Whigs, whether this government are equal to the time ...

... he thought they might carry such a bill; but he advised them against the timid policy of the prophesying Brahmins of the Whig party. Two things, however, rather shook his confidence : the deplorable feebleness exhibited with reference to the Jamaica ...

... from any' other source in the coming session. I dare say the Whigs are foretelling all sorts of evils that may come from the passing of this bill. I have heard member, he has been member of a Whig cabinet, declare that he believed there was nobody in the ...