... was styled a sudden caprice, provoked, t without reference to the interests of the r .1 country, by a desire to outbid the Whigs.s These sentiments were endorsed even by M. , Thiers, who contended that although, as events P ,. turned out, free trade had ...

... the bill, because they are fundamentally hostile to the Tory, who hates any extension of the suffrage, and to the renegade Whig, who is animated by personal feel- isigs and prejudices adopted for the occasion. Apart from these is the great bulk of opinion ...

... interpose hindrance in place of, help. Such is the spectacle which is now forced on observation by the reactionary portion of the Whig party and it organs By assum- ing the name of Liberals they have secured for themselves wealth, honours, influence in society ...

... GROSVENOR. The TeZegraph observes with sincere and unfeigned regret the repre- sentative of one of the noblest and wealthiest Whig families in England coming forward to sully his spotless name and unstained character by association with interested disaffection ...

... instead of awaiting the debate in their own House; and in the second, that the Ministry cannot rely on the unbroken aid of the Whig families who carried the bill of i832, and who still lead so considerable a section of the House. It is all very well to taunt ...

... 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 ...

... What in the world is it to be? A large bill cannot be carried, and a little one will be laughed at. First, there are the great Whig houses to be considered. The oligarchical traditions of the party are almost more than Venetian in their strictness, and it ...

... and willing country would appreciate his long servic We hoped the counrywo , 9 ericswhich liabsen well rendered. All, whether Whig or Tory Radical oc Conservative, received from him the oryx hel ar assistance. He was not the member of Ogeatret help and' ...

... the great moaving sed determinmig epring which make some members aeformaers and others anti-reformers. When, in 1859, the Whigs saw thau they had a chance of beating their opponents, and securing their own readmission to office, they voted againat the ...

... difficult to be-' ,lieve tjhdt, ip til eldest so of that accomlplishe(l noble. man the Duke of Devonshire, the leader of the Whigs had found a promising supporter. Beginning with a subordinate office in the government, the heir of the Cavendishes hat succeeded ...

... Mr. Bouverie, and Lord Elcho would constitute a poor backbone for any such framework. An alliance between the more moderate Whigs and the malcontents, on the basis of No Reform, would be a chimerical adven- ture. From any such combination the more advanced ...

... GLADSTONE says he had no fear of such a result, and we may readily credit his assertion, but we may guess what the timid Whigs and the rabid Tories of the House would have said to it, and we may imagine how the House of Lords would have treated it. The ...