... particular party. As it happens, however, Sir A. Cockbcrn, Sir W. Erle, and Sir W. P. Wood are Liberals, though not perhaps pure Whigs ; and if politics were placed in abeyance, as they were by Lord Palmerston in regard to his judicial appointments, many other ...

... prophesying Brahmins in the great Whig houses somewhere, and I dare ; say they are foretelling all sorts of evils that may come I from the passing of tbis bill. (Laughter.) I have heard a member, and a member since then of the Whig Cabinet, declare that he believed ...

... ; everything, he says, depends upou him, and the old Whigs are not yet I all deposited in Westminster Abbey. Now, thi B is neither fair nor friendly. Mr. Bright knows quite well that the old Whigs have not compelled the compromise through which, and through ...

... s are at hand, and that a national or constitutional par.v is to be formed, embracing moderate Conservatives and'moderate Whigs, to resist the encroachments of democratic levellers. For our part we believe in the one theory as much as in the other. We ...

... staff of a Whig Administration. At the same time, it should be recollected that he did not change benches in the House alone, nor, properly speaking, of his own motion. He came out of the Conservative camp, as lord Derby came out of the Whig camp, to maintain ...

... an excen- tric Whig. The name is perhaps as convenient as another. He would not have called himself that, j but, as party names are nicknames, he accepts the j nickname. He would have called himself au old ) Whig, without the orthodox Whig belief in the ...

... poured out upon his devoted head must have produced its natural effect. The Peelites, too, who are, as it were, the salt of a Whig Cabinet, will support one another, and their great master taught them to consider the interests of the country without respect ...

... features, they had j better not submit it to the rough ventilation of j public opinion. In the cilni, tepid atmosphere jof a Whig Cabinet it might preserve all its j ideal beauty, and b* a joy for ever to I its happy parents ; but the Hoase of Com- mens ...

... — — ■ — ■♦ (Concluded from the Morning Post of Jan. 9. ) A Letter to the Electors of the United Kingdom from an Excentbic Whig. Qnid tarn dertro p -Je coacepis, at te conatus non poemteat, votique peracti . Bbother Electors,— Probably neither party is ...

... to cast iv his lot with his colleagues ; but, whatever his faults may be, the country would regret the sacrifice. While the Whigs are passing out of the public cal- culation it is felt that Mr. Gladstone might save the Liberal party from disintegration ...

... rebellion were executed at Tyburn. In 1722 the riots were so serious that Parliament was compelled to inU-rfere. A celebrated Whig Mug House in Salisbury-court was pulled down by the mob, the ringleaders of the mob were arrested aud hanged, aud this proved ...

... policy that professed to seek the true interests of Catholic Ireland, independent of uil party ties or party bias, either to Whigs or Tories-so long I acted heartily with it. If lam now very 1 egret fully obliged to bring my connection with it to a close ...