... section ;-for which service they would certainly exact payment that might in- volve the extinction of the Whigs as a domi- nant party. The Whigs have always held their position by appearing to be popular, and it has been forseen that they could not lastingly ...

... the Whigs in political policy. Let the Whigs mark one conse- quence of the separation. There is hardly a borough in the kingdom in which the radicals are not;mas- ters of the situation at an election. The radicals will refuse their support to Whigs who ...

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... _ - -- __v_ _ - ] WHIGS AND PLIMSOLITES.-THE DERBY REFORM MEETING. I - r - u -n11 -n At CO- - -t ..T . . IsEkAtiV1a Mihi l lN (i. Hei id TO THE EDITOR OF THE DEIRBY MERCURY. Sir-Conservatism is a good old institution, which is sub- rt ject to much abuse ...

... pass tht the leader of a Govern- ment, ostensibly relying on the combined support of Whigs and Radicals, reilly held his position by~ a tacit understanding between Whigs and Tories, to which many of his nominal supporters very reluctantly sub- saitted. ...

... stood Lord Derby is desirous of forming with the Lansdowne section of the Whigs. In 1827 Mr. Can- ning, then the Conservative Premier, appealed to the moderate men of the Whig party for support. The appeal was answered by Lord Lansddwne, father of the ...

... designations of Whig and Tory came into use. The Tories were those who, siding with any estab- lished order of things, for the sake of what it yielded, stood out successively for Popery in religion and tyranny in rule, while the Whigs were the champions ...

... just as merrily without it. There was no sacrifice of principle on either side. The Whig made no show of deference to the Tory views of government, nor the Tory to the Whig.- Pulteney knew well enough that in availing himself of his Tory allies he was in ...

... Government, of which he had been the supporter, had departed from the rule of Whig Governments m past times, and, instead of taking entirely the advice of certain portiors of the Whig powers, had taken advice from that section of the house among whom I generally ...

... their families. Nor is this the case alone in the smaller boroughs. Will anyone pretend that the tenants of a Whig landlord usually vote Whig, and the tenants of a Tory landlord Tory, from mere con. viction, and that they would not often like to vote on ...

... as the political world was then for the most part either Whig or Tory. Reform, however, turned Tories into Conservatives, and created a great Liberal party, nominally in harmony with the Whigs, but nevertheless independent of them. Hence the Carlton arose ...

... tedious Whig gestation. It is said that the more liberal section of the cabinet havesucceededin making their influence operate, to the production of -a more satisfactory measure, than the old Whigs were disposed to concede. Something more than the Whig instalment ...