... of procuring its abrogation. Mr. Hawes and Mr. Divett were, as is well known, the pioneers of the abolition movement, and a Whig Government discerned that a very seasonable stock of political capital might be made out of vague promises of redressing a ...

... placed it before the House of Commons. Not even Mr. Gladstone's eloquence and casuistry could impart to this product of the Whig-Radical alliance a semblance of sincerity. No speech, in our opinion, so strongly condemned it as that of the versatile Chancellor ...

... dissolution. Nearly every day increases the number of motions and amendments designed to obstruct, defeat, improve, or prop up the Whig-Radical Reform Bill. And all these propositions come from the Ministerial side of the House—from the members to whom the Cabinet ...

... three or four days and nights where he saw persons business, the Revising Barrister's court there was strong feeling between Whig and Tory. All the notices were left, open on the table in the court. They were left there while the court adjourned for about ...

... bestow more than the coldest expressions of endearment. The best men of the Liberal party openly scout it; the independent Whigs and the Liberal Conservatives stoutly oppose it the Conservatives have agreed to resist it to the utmost ; and the extreme ...

... The bait is tempting, and as concession after concession has taught Dissenters that they may ask anything they please, with a Whig Government to back them up, they will soon be knocking at the gates of Christ Church. We have described the Colleges religious ...

... ' m * hlst ry moment's comparison with that *- bear Somerset's pocket borough of TorS Uk '•strongholds of rural ° hoSe ing Whig Government is so lone; the existence of which T Pr ° Reform Bill has been appears, elevated Qoiu«tw^ P h2lS^S2S»i bound, their ...

... the faith that is in him with respect to the Government Bill. Why, after vaunting the superiority of this bungling example of Whig-Radical statesmanship as compared with Conservative propositions, he ' inadvertently let slip the fact that was ignorant of ...

... one. Hear, hear.) He referred to the passing of tho corn laws in 815, to the game laws which were supported by Tories and Whigs, and dwelt some length upon measures which had i been resisted by Her Majesty's Opposition. The Govern- ment Reform Bill although ...

... ; Jews, and a small section of so-called philosophical Radicals like Mr. J. Stuart Mill. The large majority of the House, Whigs and Tories, like the far larger majority in the country, have no sympathy with these agitators. Yet from apathy, from ignorance ...

... crisis to break a Liberal it would means be so easy a matter te recontW f olle were that now iv existence once dissolved. The Whigs ' thought better of ihe case, and Lord Russell's scheme was w . discussed, settled. earl'^ laiistone ' 8 conduct connection ...

... might, and i would justly, repudiate anything that they did. In conclusion he made forcible appeal to the independent moderate Whigs to be wise in time, and not to bury themselves prematurely that tomb in Westminster Abbey, in which the hon. member for Birmingham ...