... went down upon its knees to the great Whig houses,'' and humbly thanked them for satrixjg oou next change of scene, however, disclosed the proof that jubilation and thankfulness were alike premature. The Whigs have not been let into the trap, the great ...

... that he was the only one whom his party would follow. Nothing has since transpired to make the country believe that another Whig can succeed where he has failed, and the logical consequence is that when Earl Russell resigns the Conservatives should be ...

... of Conmmons. Lord Elcho has succeeded in detaching his brother Colonel of Volunteers, Earl Grosvenos, from the Ministerial Whigs, and no small consternation was caused upon the Treasury benches by the announcement on Tuesday, that the heir to the marquisate ...

... Liberal- Conservative Lord STANLEY and the Whig Lord GROSVENOR are willing enough to shed the light of their countenances upon them. Directly the people ask leave to govern themselves, Con- servative and Whig unite to defend the threat- ened privilege ...

... He has first to feel his way how far be can go in making a Whig Government uneasy, and undermining them in the affection and confidence of the people, without offending the power- ful Whig Lord by whose favour he sits for Calne. When he has alienated ...

... apathy. Sir J. Pakington's Great Constitutional Party is organizing, and it means mischief: Tories, Conservatives, and Whigs, with all the hybrid varieties between, including the latest novelty, the nondescript, unclassified, nebulous Scqtch. Terrier ...

... arrayed against them; or they may deal with Reform in the petty, peddling fashion which has such charms for a section of the old Whig school, in which case, we greatly mistake the temper of Parliament and the current of public opinion if they succeed any better ...

... the Conservatives might leave the work of demolition to their opponents, for a house so divided against itself as the Great Whig Institution must inevitably fall to pieces. But it is satisfactory to see that the movement against the bill is begun by the ...

... biographer and ad- mirer of Charles James Fox, and the natural leader of the great Whig party, naturally shrinks from a course which may drive an influential section of the Whigs into coalition with the party of Lord Derby. They have, in truth, however, more ...

... order; no one would listen to him. In 1797 he gave up the attempt,' and from that time till 1830 the question, forsaken by the Whigs, was left to the Radicals, headed by Sir F. Burdett; nor were the public much more anxious on the subject. In 1821 only nineteen ...

... not in response to any public demand or to satisfy any pressing need, but only because political suicide is the last thing a Whig can be brought to contemplate. But the generous abstention which the Ministry implored from the Opposition—forgetting their ...

... intention of risking all upon the Franchise Bill. The rest of the Cabinet are naturally alarmed at his obstinacy, for they are Whigs, and their places are in jeopardy. If they do not make a second Jonah of him, and sacrifice him to the tempest he has raised ...