... grand charge against the Government. THE POWER OK ORATORY. Mr. Bright’s speech was said be ill-timed, mischievous, dangerous, Whigs, and Tories, and hybrids, all joined in this chorus, after the speech was delivered. Well, on this we have thus much, and more ...

... having evidently no desire to carry on the debate, waned about six o'clock, when Jfr. Bouverie rose, and, representing the Whig party proper, made such an onslaught on bit-by-bit reform, and so taunted and jeered Ministers for declaring that they would ...

... visit the present instance with the severe reprobation it merits, we give leave and license for the next; and whether it be a Whig or a Tory Cabinet that commits the fault, the precedent of mutually complimenting away the public interests will be firmly ...

... respect of Whig and Tory, of Radical and Conservative, whose great part in history almost entitled him to the leadership in England. Lord PALMERSTON was gone, and his loss was never felt before as it was felt yesterday. Its realisation filled the Whigs with ...

... the revolutionary me isurtw of Mr. and Mr. King were moved in Parliament, they left the burden of opposition entirely to the Whigs—Mr. Disiaeli, apparently being more concerned to eieg on Liberals to quarrel among themselves, than to vindicate the principles ...

... constitutionally, of all these measures although it occupies a very subordinate place the Royal Speech, and the counsels of the Whigs. The measure itself is kept studiously in the background and will only be introduced after Easter; but it seems plain that ...

... Commons who, without the advantages of whig oonnexioe, have lately been offered office, belong to that section which has strong and decided opinions —men of a new type, very different both from the ordinary whig official and from the unattached liberals ...

... observe that the really serious danger to the Church: was to be detected not so much in the desertion of the: bishops by the Whigs as in the desertion of their wigs by the bishops. Within thirty years a 'Wig-wearing prelate became a rarity. A similar though ...

... incompetency involved us in the dirty squabble about the rock of St. Juan, still a bone of contention—for such benefits the Whigs accorded a peerage ! I have - been thus explicitiliat my warning may be more clearly understood, and that the government may ...

... circumstances under which it was first imposed. In 1697 the finances of the country were in very embarrassed condition. The Whigs, under the Marquess Halifax, had enjoyed for some years a monopoly of power, and through their maladministration it became ...

... office of Secretary of the Treasury. The family were for several generations connected by property with Jamaica, and, though Whigs, shared warmly in the Protectionist views which led to the long though unavailing struggle waged, by the West India interest ...

... Ministry formed by Mr. Canning in 1827 Lord Lans- downe took the Home-office as the representative of those more moderate Whigs who were prepared to lend whatever support consistency permitted to a new Premier just deserted by his own nominal friends ...