... 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 ...

... breasts of Mr Candlish's more immediate friends would have been wanting still ; and, in a word, but for them, the dominion the Whigs would have been perpetuated in Sunderland for, perhaps, a generation come. A* Mr Storey reminded th« great gathering in the ...

... Nor must it be forgotten that a short period out of office is an alterative and a toulic. I the bracing; lair of Opposition Whigs grow strong and achieve an audacity which they lose when long debauched by 'he sweets of place. With nothing to do but to refect ...

... with aucOßaa And now what art iholeaaona tho victory U not the election of Mr. Cakdlish both rebuke to the Whig* and warning to the Government! Whig*, if they are capable learning anything at all, will not again despiae the people—not again ignore the power ...

... mJli wAiwr ohro: of the Whig committeemen who cheered vigouroniiy on preceding dap. The Haros and party haring arrived and taken their places in their own compartment the hustings hie wor•hip proceeded to announce the number* at the close of tho poll ...

... \ oIL Nor must it be forgotten that a j Gist* 0 * 1 o{ (iffiri . is alternative and a tonic rt perid° Ul • of opposition Whigs grow strong, ii I,r **„ audacity which they lose when long : acbif! * gW eet* of place. With nothing to '■* l,ch Art ul*>» ...

... this year Mr. W. Dighy Seymour, the then Liiierai member for Sunderland, was appointed Recorder Newcastle-upon-Tyne, by the Whig who seeking re-election, was defeated Mr Fenwick, the I ndependent Liberal candidate, the numl * being— * Henry Fenwick W. ...

... Reformer's love of and i,,,,,] Ailesbury's feelings thereby hurt. The Duke Devonshire, Lord Fitzwilliara, and other hereditary Whigs enjoj similar proju-ietary influences other places, which have been turned to good account favour of successive Liberal officials ...

... the room, who are described in terms of graceful circumlocution; as, for example, a forensic star of the first magnitude, a Whig leader possessed of great popularity and of scientific acquiremdents of a high order. No one could mistake that marked phy ...

... consisted in the personnel of his colleagues—that is to say, in the difficulty which he found in inducing eligible persons in the Whig ranks to share the responsibility of the line of policy which he was inclined to adopt. The first move, that of transferring ...

... very little (Macaw° in the political views of the respective candidates. The question involved was simply the conduct of the Whigs at the general election, on which occasion the advanced liberals allege they betrayed their candidate, and broke up the liberal ...

... of Viscount Halifax. Lord John Russell became an Earl at once, Sir Charles Wood a Viscount, Mr. Vernon Smith only Baron. The Whig shading of rank, so to express merit, is always delicately artistic. Translate Earl ‘superlative/ Viscount ‘comparative,’ Baron ...