... calibre of bis gigantic adversary in action. In the Cabinet, in Parliament, and in the presence of their Sove- reign, the Whigs of that time comported them- selves as statesmen. They set no nets to catch parties, they laid no traps for particular interests ...

... though public servants have no politics, you cannot help feeling gratified at the change, as your family have always been Whigs or Tories, as the case may be ; your grandfather, the member for So-and-so, having been the intimate friend and some time the ...

... remembered that the story has been for many years in print, almost exactly as I have told it. in Mr. Roebuck History of tbe Whig Ministry, ' and it is quite evident thttt no one but Lord Brougham could have been j!i i Roebuck's informant. lam sure that ...

... brutal, and bloody Whigs. (Laughter.) Bat 1 whether this were true or not he could not say, but he was quite ready to support the Government in controlling that small section of the Irish- nation who were disloyal and to support even a Whig Government in ...

... The event i that failed to realise an aspiration may fulfil a prophecy ; and, while the new Whig idea is con- signed to the limbo of abortive creations, the Whigs themselves may be relegated to the poli- tical tomb which the member for Birmingham has assigned ...

... be expected to renounce the political faith they have consistently professed ; and, apart from higher considerations, the Whigs have reason to complain of the absence of respect they have experienced under the administration of Lord Russell. Still, Mr ...

... the election addreises of gentlemen on this side of the house, or principally belo_gin;_ to the whig party. In one of tbe.e columns of extracts from whig election ?? delivered in June IS.'J, I find first one from Lord I 'aimerston, io which he says — ...

... further disintegra- tion. Sir George Grey, it is no secret, is about to quit official life, aad indeed the whole race of old Whigs appear to yield to, or to claim the privi- leges of, superannuation. That Earl Rcssell, under such circumstances, should feel ...

... by the Radi- cals to a bill which they now recognise as having beeu framed with express regard to their requirements. The Whigs, too, would certaiuly have swelled the ranks cf the Ministerial forces against their own traditional opponents, and the ma- ...

... ported by public opinion. It is for Mr. Gladstone to endeavour to avert a catastrophe which is fore- seen and anticipated. The Whigs are politically dead, and he must trust in himself. Hia strength consists not in a Parliamentary majority, which, without a ...

... to get a majority supporters at the elections is natural ; our ?? Government has done so at every general elect;.; whether Whigs or Tories have been in power in opposition. But there is nothing to show ?? seven millions of men were driven or tempt. d unlawful ...

... is for the liber. l party calmly to reconsider its position and duties as to the future. It h-.s seen that a sueces-ion of whig ministers havo been driven by the necessities of their position to give a smal minority of extreme ooiuionisti an impoitasce ...