... 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 ...

... not the least affective. He then 'passed to an admirably reasoned zlefence of the Government measure, and quoted the great Whig, Lord Somers, as an authority in favour of a much more popular' /and enfran- 2hising measure than that before the House. I ...

... regards the middle classes, there is, we believe, very little difference of opinion as to the merits of the measure. After both Whigs and Tories have admitted the necessity of suffrage extension, there can be few politicians who can honestly assert that the ...

... would.support the bill; whilst.another was at great pains to assure its readersthat it was only the sniall men, amongst the whigs,.not the great 'families, not the clear grit, which offered asyop-., position'to the governmevt measure. 'We tbink We, rnay ...

... accurately indicated in our last. We regret to say that we were equally correct in foreshadowing the policy of the half-hearted Whigs and disappointed place-holders who had evinced their hostility to progress, A coalition between the enemies of the working-classes ...

... The way of all true Liberals is now stnright and plain They will not, if they can help it, let fly the bird in hand, for any Whig lord or jibing malcontent who will tell them how much better it is to beat about the bush. The mseaner class of politicians ...

... said that the Peelites were to the pre- sent Liberal outsiders as Hyperion to a Satyr. An alliance between the more moderate Whigs and the malcontents, on thebasisof ITo Reform, would, on the other hand, be a chimerical ad- venture. From any such combination ...

... fought upon the amendment of Lord GnosvuNon. The fact that that resolntion is brought forwald by the repre- sentative of a great Whig house is exceedingly significant. The leadership of the Liberal party, which now is and henceforth will be the governing party ...

... tics-plate worker, said the peolile had now learnit who were the real promoters of Reform. They were neither the Tories nor the Whigs, but the men at the I head of the present Government ; and the Chancellor of the Exchequer was acting wisely in taking first; ...

... advanced .iberal. It ray be tormed a test election to determine the relative strength of the Whigs and the Ra(licals in | the bororigh. The Radicals allege that the Whigs broke up the Liberal compact at the general election, abased l their catrdidate, and hy ...

... Administrations, and render their valuable services with equal cheerfulness to the Conservative and the Liberal, the high Whig or the pushing Radical. But above all we deem it important that the SOVIoREIGor should not be of any party, should hold the ...

... the services of a Prime Minister altogether. The Times is at a loss to find a leader in the Lords or in the Commons; amongst whigs, tories, or radicals. On the whole this political weathercock, which is every- I thing by turns and nothing long, thinks ...