... been guilty of the unpardonable sin of disbelieving in pure Whiggery, and therefore it has long been the fashion among pure Whigs say all sorts of hard things against that able member of the House of Commons. The advanced Liberals, who are at present ...

... the States. He would have been much better employed home, like Lord Amberley, getting up the electors, a class the rising Whigs know but little of. To suppose that nothing short of extermination or slavery, or, at least, 1 forced contracts to labour after ...

... atroilg which a pretty sure meet the opposition the Conservatives, , at lea3t) t l( , rePae criticism a large section of the old Whigs ? think not, andif no proposal* ma extend the suffrage laterally, have the gravest forebodings of the fate of the bill. The ...

... profess sympathy with that sort of partizanship which believes that party Government is to be perpetuated in this country by the Whigs always bein in power. We do not believe in that, for the simple reason that such a state of things would be the destruction ...

... The Ministry seem to have thought that if they made it all right with the Member for Birmingham they could easily compel the Whigs, or moderate Liberals, to vote for the bill whether they liked it or not. The result not bearing out this expectation. It is ...

... question, brought in a fragmentary measure, a measure which settled nothing, one of those bit-by-bit schemes to which the Whigs, including their leader, had always been opposed. This was done in deference to a section of the Liberals, who, till within ...

... into the Liberal ranks in pauperis forma, and who even now, although a Liberal, does not answer to the description of a pure Whig. ...

... Liberals should not shrink from doing an act of fair play, because it is proposed by a Scotch Conservative and because a Scotch Whig nobleman would be the sufferer. The Sutherland seat comes to the Marquis of Stafford, the Duke's son, just as %is title comes ...

... and what they will doubtless oppose, is a Reform Bill which shall redistribute the representation in the interest of the Whigs, or which shall at least refrain from making matters better for the Tories. In view of this, we are disappointed to find Bright ...

... Reform Bill, through the amendment, for of that there is no evidence whatever. We should even question whether the Whig instinct to keep a Whig Government in place was strong enough to induce this section of the party to accept not only the Government, but ...

... present Ministerial crisis is one of no ordinary importance. What we witness just now is not merely change of Government from Whig Tory, brought about in the old-fashioned manner, on a principle not dissimilar from that by which the rotation of crops regulated ...

... disappointment, if not humiliation. The Conservatives cannot pass a satisfactory Reform Bill. They do not, any more than many Whigs, believe in the importance the object for which such a bill is most urgently, although not solely called for, the admission ...