... more respectable of the Whigs, who had a sense of honour and care for character, made an honest stand. They would not consent to measure that would benefit their party and ruin the country. This refusal of the Grosvenor-Whigs was a declaration of i ...

... us if in the matter of shipbuilding he is guided by parasites by whom he is As tenderly led by the nose asses are. . The Whigs have not generally been famed for administrative energy, readiness to adopt improvements. But the Government has not strength ...

... haveseldominanifestedtho Whig jealousy towards new men. is enough to mention the names of Canning,' Peel, and Disraeli to show that such is the fact. Though, since the time of Mr, Pitt, lory peers hare beeu generally more numerous than Whig, they have not shown ...

... the ships of commerce on the high seas., and in such ports as the nature of their trade might cause them to frequent. Under a Whig-Radical Government, directly supported the Manchester and economical party, seventy millions have been expended, and at this ...

... any explicit statement or determined stand made against a pernicious system that has emanated from the voluntary cession, by Whig-Cobourg Ministers, of the olden eminence of England in the Councils of Europe. Under Conservative guidance, England was, of ...

... of procuring its abrogation. Mr. Hawes and Mr. Divett were, as is well known, the pioneers of the abolition movement, and a Whig Government discerned that a very seasonable stock of political capital might be made out of vague promises of redressing a ...

... House that bribery at elections was originated by the Whigs. Without departing from exact historical truth, he might have added, that the Liberals and Radicals have inherited the vice from the Whigs, and have developed it into enormous proportions. Both ...

... Gabriel Honor* Mirabeau, Bentham, and of Sir Samuel Romilly, to another friend, the most distinguished and honoured of the Whigs, in 1826, when the question of Parliamentary Reform was agitated— Beware, lest in any Constitutional change you pave the ...

... placed it before the House of Commons. Not even Mr. Gladstone's eloquence and casuistry could impart to this product of the Whig-Radical alliance a semblance of sincerity. No speech, in our opinion, so strongly condemned it as that of the versatile Chancellor ...

... Commons will more faithfully represent the sentiments ofthe statesman described by Mr. Bright as his sturdiest opponent, than the Whig-Radical coalition with whom the learned man of the law will act, in the event of his being again sent to St. Stephens. It seems ...

... is project-that will stand a chance of being carried and secure the all-important end of retaining & office its authors. The Whig Premier and Radical President of the Board of Trade severally propounded that view, and have disco**' aged the notion that ...

... Cabinet, we think it morn than prob.'Jjle that dexterous motion for parliamentary reform would lead the reinstatement of the Whigs next February, though wa don't ccc what the reformers are likely to get by such motion except return Perhaps~a reconstruction ...