... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... fundamentally-may be regarded as a certainty. The elimination of these two peculiarly Whig members of the Cabinet will go far to dissolve the allegiance of the Whig party to the remaining portion, and to bring out the incoherence of the existing combination ...

... pushed his way to the front, and infused a new spirit into the ranks of the Whig party. From the appointment of Brougham to the post of leader of Opposition the work of Whig regeneration proceeded at a rapid pace, and supported by Lord John Russell, Lord ...

... and it is not unlikely, we think, that Lord Derby may seek the co-operation of Lord Lansdowne as leader of that formidable Whig section which was opposed to the action of the late Government. ...

... es, may think and speak with a certain degree of freedom, but for sincere Reformers to imitate such independence, for old Whigs and philosophical Radicals who have proved their earnestness and sincerity in many a hard- fought field to dare to have an ...

... Derby's name is associated in political history. As Whig Secretary for- Ireland he was the founder of the system of National Education which the Tories denounce as unsound in idea and a failure in fact ; as Whig Secretary for the Colonies he was more directly ...

... , by some kind of coalition between Whigs and Radicals, or is the Whig party to be split in two, one part of it being lost in the Radicals and the other scarcely distinguished from the Conservatives ? When the Whig feeling was in the ascendant, the Radicals ...

... co-operation of many at least of that special section of the Whig party of which the House of Westminster may be regarded as the type. The GROSVENORS are Whigs par exceleiece,' not, indeed, Whigs of any advanced opinions, but still of pure descent, of strict ...

... are now. But they are written in a slovenly style, and betray a strong party spirit. We see in them the old Whig in all his glory: the Whig of those days when there were but two parties in the State, and but two recognized sets of principles; and when ...

... consists in leading, not in defying the nation. Besides, ratting is very nearly as inconvenient as discreditable, and your genuine Whig has convictions. He may not like the Reform Bill, but he does not like Austria either, or Orangemen, or the Tory tone on eccle- ...

... ves, and Liberal Conservatives. On the other hand, you have Whigs, Conservative Liberals, Liberals, advanced Liberals and Radicals. But I. believe there is as much difference between a Whig and a Radical as I hope there is between a Conser- vative and ...