... horrible spectre, rousing the slumbering International Commission by a fierce attack. A contemporary says it singular that Whig Ministries have been the only ones these forty years past that have required the suspension of the Constitution. The Council ...

... alliance he lias struck up with Mr. Bright, Earl Russell alienated all or many of the most vigorous men of the constitutional Whigs, and some even, as showed the other day, of those who were regarded as Advanced Liberals. Those men have not coalesced with ...

... Peel, was a man of good sense and great experience while Sir William Hutt, though nothing brilliant, was asjund constitutional Whig, holding moderate opinions. Here then is a considerable amount of loss in debating power, administrative experience and ability ...

... by every lover of the British constitution. Lord Macaulay was. undoubtedly, the most popular ami accomplished of all modern Whigs, and his opinion ought to have some weight with her Majesty's Ministers before they venture to extend the franchise, uncon ...

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... Brightism which seems to have enlisted Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone in its support, and which will unite the old constitutional Whigs and the moderate Conservatives. He anticipates for this new: party not yet formed, but represented by Sir Robert Peel, Lord ...

... belonged had thrown out the measure introduced by Lord Derby With the honest intention to settle the question; and though the Whigs had come into power the promise introduce a Reform measure, they had not done so. Two years ago Lord Russell’s excuse was Rest ...

... trifled with it. was afraid of it politically, and Ireland may have to pay very seri. ously in formidable insurrection for Whig Radical rinesse and party fears. Would the Duke Wellington’s Administration or Sir Robert Peel’s (think you) have allowed it ...

... keep the defences of the country in a thoroughly efficient condition. But it is time that the deceitful and deceiving myth of Whig “Retrenchment’ —which is claimed one of the watchwords of the Liberal party —were exploded. In Mr. Gladstones case it h;is ...

... with in the Liberal organs of the press than sneers at Mr. Disraeli, the leader of her Majesty’s Opj>osition for the paltriest Whig scribblers must affect to jeer at the character and undervalue the abilities of man whose greatest fault, in their envious ...

... that of the mayor and town councillor; it was post of honour which ought to given the senior member* of the House, whether Whigs or Tories (hear. hear). He would not have it male jxditical question, he would rather the position should be offered to the ...