... landlords of the power of controlling the legislature of the country. Lord John Manners, the poet of the middle ages, besought the whig landlords piteous accents not to abandon their order by adopting bill which would limit the landed interest to its fair share ...

... surely had not been insincere for he betrayed great emotion when he was obliged to withdraw his bill. The noble Earl and the Whig party were therefore not open to this charge. In 1861 an earnest and robust Reformer upbraided tho noble lord, who triumphantly ...

... literally that. Toryism to him very incarnation of evil, nor was he always content p the rate the world travelled evon when the Whigs reins. But more even than general political q ue were his feelings engaged on behalf of the poor, a , working population. member ...

... over a Whig driven from them the ordinary . * ba * Ministry, and the Conservatives to join the seceders forming a great p . y- At the opening of the Session jori atbc£d Cabinet were in office, boasting of ° y. - At clo3e of a - 8 * power, Whig- ' 'S ...

... fifty 3 been found 'i Well, in answer to that question, venture to say they often been found the Conservative janka, on the Whig 6ide of the Honse. Looking through- tbe ranks of the Liberal uerfcy in the / House of I cannot 3ee single lawyer of eminence ...

... calamity, and doing that with all the energy at their command, whether popular or not. With the narrowness of view peculiar to the Whig-Radical vision, they have thought it judicious to study minor interests in preference to national interests and, actuated by ...

... societies were of immense national importance. They were open to all classes—the young and old, rich and poor, Conservatives, Whigs, and Radicals. Political motives now hardly entered into consideration—still in some cases they had exercised a powerful influence ...

... lay the cat-o'-nine-tails on a broad back the tune of Merrily Danced the Quaker!— Court Journal. WHIG PATRIOTS. For many years, when out of place, Whig Patriots bawl'd about reform ; Ami stoutly swore that, change their case, They'd drive the Placemen ...

... movement, he was but yielding submission to the ruliugs of others. Mr. Bright supplied an instance of the completeness of the Whig Premier's surrender of his judgment at the dictation of less scrupulous politicians. The Quaker member for Birmingham told ...

... moderate Liberal principles to support which you were elected? Then, without any compromise of principle, on either side, those Whigs who preferred the interests of their country to their party, might gradually lend their talents and administrative ability ...

... constitution in the honorable Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of Derby. Like the prorogued parliament, he began life as a Whig of Whigs, with splendid abilities and strong will, giving the highest promise of taking stand among the foremost of patriot statesmen ...

... of the Exchequer, could stay the prosperity of the country, were he so minded. Ana it is simply unfair to heap praises upon Whig cabinet for the good result that has attended the reduction of the tea-duty, inasmuch as that reduction was twice proposed ...