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... THE BUSY WHIGS. I remember saying many years ago that we were like bees working in glass hives, our proceedings in Parliament and everywhere were so open; but I have heard that bees in glass hives take the precaution to cover them up first with wax ...
... Grosvenor's amendment, it might be found in the notice, unparalleled in parliamentary experience, given on Tuesday night by an ex-Whig official. The Times cannot but express its extreme regret at this end —for it is hopeless to expect that the partial measure ...
... may gazetie him. The Tories neglect all this sadly. They have no piomising colts, or if they have they won't back them. The Whigs arc their masters in all the rogueries of office,'and in nothing is this more conspicuous than in the way which they manage ...
... Mr. Gladstone will able to parry so heavy a blow. Another amendment a similar purpose, announced by Sir Wm. Hutt, a leading Whig, lias indeed been withdrawn, and the joy expressed the ministerial parly shows the extent of their fears. -Sir William llutt ...
... humiliating enough to Earl Russell's Administration, though it is only what the country has been prepared to expect. The old Whig statesman—the patriarch of Reform- —the Lord John of the olden time— would now gladly Rest and be thankful, but his younger ...
... have been all hands to government within 48 days after the plague bad broken out, and no matter whether the government was Whig or Tory, it must have given up to the opinion of the people, Farmers were the most disconnected, divided people on earth, and ...
... anything else for the present.—Times. Sir Robert Clifton's Doings at the Nottingham Election.—Sir Robert Clifton was one of the Whig candidates for Nottingham, and was elected. His return is petitioned against; and amongst the witnesses to support the petition ...
... without a controlling hand to guide them.' 'They arc evidently so much at a loss what line to take, and how to take it.' The Whigs are falling off from them; the Peelites are used up; Mr. Cardwell and the Attorney-General are all that remain of that clever ...