... party tactics, added they were to the immense influence bis family connection, made him a man not to be matched even among Whig coteries. was, in fact, maker,” as Warwick was King-maker. He could not ...

... Russell was in a still greater dilemma the question of reform. Too much would lead to the desertion from Lord Russell of the Whigs, and too little that of the Radicals. If the Reform Bill was a simple extension of the franchise and nothing more, itwouldnotbe ...

... House of Commons it will be soon enough to conjecture what may be its final result.—Yours, fee, Manchester, Feb. 9, 1866. A WHIG-LIBERAL. ...

... in namber ; the or Liberal Conservatives, who sit on the the Speaks, lelow the gaagway, were in somewhat greater force; the Whigs, behind the were still! more numerows ; whilst the Radicals, below the gangway, on the Liberal side could scarcely find room ...

... is amiable and hard-working. There is not one qualification for his office which Lord De Grey possesses except that he is a Whig nobleman—that his antecedents encourage an expectation that he will come down regularly to his office, and that when he gets ...

... is amiable and hard-working. There is not one qualification for his office which Lord De Grey possesses except that he is a Whig nobleman—that his antecedents encourage an expectation that he will come down regularly to his office, and that when he gets ...

... Roman Catholics. J** Ultramontane alliance has borne fruit much c rapidly than even we anticipated. Mr. who sought to serve the Whig cause at the by bis measure, introduced late the for the alteration of the Roman Catholic oath, elected to propose the Speaker ...

... office of Secretary of the Treasury. Tiie family wero for several fenerations connected 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 ...

... being gradually converted to the principles of Free Trade, Sir Charles Wood was rising in importance in the councils of the Whigs ; and i when the Tory party fell to pieces, and the statesmen who had composed is began to quarrel bitterly among I themselves ...

... the charge that has so often been made against the Whigs of excluding young men from their councils. He also seems determined to get rid of the reproach of appointing none but members of the old Whig aristocracy, for, though the Marquis of Harting- ton ...

... Uttle angered the coolness with which their aUies have thrown them overboard. Bat probably they have had too much experience of Whig sincerity to be greatly surprised or discomfited this latest instance of a very old failing. They may have learnt to be thankful ...

... there were none at all The bill is neither as wide as a church door nor as deep as a well, but twill serve—to frighten old Whigs like Mr. and young prigs like Sir Henry Hoare from their propriety. The taint of how- ever, is upon all they say, and one manly ...