... to allow any one of less degree to carry the Key of the Wardrobe. Fate has been rather unkind to the order of late; and the Whigs just now are short of duchesses. The princely homes of Devonshire, Bedford, Norfolk, Leinster, Portland, and St Albans are ...

... your projects pursue, And this noble Idea keep ever in view ; Let but Numbers and Noise the ascendency gam. And then both Whigs and Tories, on Salisbury Plain, „ , Will lie Down, down—all of you down ! —Blackwood's Magazine for January. ...

... anxiety in the nation, and it can inspire little confidence except the minds of those who have been brought up in Whig houses and the Whig faith. such it is quite a matter of course that, long as Lord Russell is at the head of affairs, and seconded Sir ...

... ever Wythe most eminent statesman now living of tbs Whig party, I think vs likely to see the entire extlncof the Whigs as governing party in tbs of this country. (Hear, hear.) Bnt whether the Whigs, whether this Government equal to the time or not, the ...

... for it Rochdale. “It appeals to the unblushing demagogue went on say, as if Lord Russell acknowledged to the world that the Whig party, so far as statesmen were concerned, was Dearly worn out. If it to, it must be their own policy. It has been a complaint ...

... the yenr a.». 2270 to that amount ? present to onrselves is somethiog solid and -fractifvine onr pockets, - the word* of the Whig financier. The sublime piece of delicacy to our remote posterity is visionary, for half the people in this island do not expect ...

... the question 'as much any man in England.' We have bis own assertion that Minister after Minister, patriot after patriot, Whig after Radical, have consulted him, and he tells them all frankly what are his expectations. He wants to abrogate the £lO clause ...

... danger of being set at nought by the Whig aristocracy. The King himself had waged a long fight for his own emancipation. In 1783 the people had come to his assistance, and the result was that victory over the Whigs which seated Mr Pitt in power for the ...

... decided position ? There can scarcely exist a doubt upon the question. The party has been weeded of its stray members, and the Whigs are not sure that in accepting new alliances they have not broken off old associations to an extent that may imperil their ...

... Narvaez, backed by the whole weight of the Crown, would be the men to do it. The * Liberal Union party are compared to the Whigs and Moderate Liberals of England ; but their ascendency has been chiefly gained by the possession of O'Donnell as a chief, ...

... he has now had the courage to raise young politician, purely of the middle class, to an office which gives him a seat with Whig Dukes and Earls, and renowned leaders of politics and finance at the table of the Cabinet. Even the fact that the Chancellorship ...

... that the old Whigs were nearly worn out,” and suggested that even if “all the Whigs were comfortably deposited in Westminster Abbey, a Cabinet would still be possible. Westminster Abbey? Why Westminster Abbey? this country bury old Whigs in the House ...