... of procuring its abrogation. Mr. Hawes and Mr. Divett were, as is well known, the pioneers of the abolition movement, and a Whig Government discerned that a very seasonable stock of political capital might be made out of vague promises of redressing a ...

... placed it before the House of Commons. Not even Mr. Gladstone's eloquence and casuistry could impart to this product of the Whig-Radical alliance a semblance of sincerity. No speech, in our opinion, so strongly condemned it as that of the versatile Chancellor ...

... CASTLE OF EXETER. —ST. THOMAS BOARD OF GUARDIANS' —TEIGN VALLEY RAILWAY.—IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT' —POLITICAL GOSSIP. —THE BUSY WHIGS. —REPORTED RESIGNATION OF EARL RUSSELL.—FOREIGN ...

... exaggeration to say that nobody likes the bill. The Advertiser says it seems to be very certain that with the aid given by the Whig malcontents the conservatives can throw out the bill. The Post asserts that the delay which circumstances, or error of judgemut ...

... move an amendment that it is not perfect enough for him, and Lord Stanley is to second this amendment. Earl Grosvenor is a whig, and Lord Stanley as heir to Lord Derby is a member of the tory party. He is however given out from time to time being a perfect ...

... all parties in and out of the House. is a failure. Such is the general verdict. But in this condemnation by Conservatives, Whigs, well-conditioned Liberals, and ill-conditioned Radicals, very lage majority, perhaps nine-tenths, are composed of persons ...

... meat they bad eaten, and whose wine and brandy tbey had quaffed. After this, will any Whig-Radical have the heart to vote for the disfranchisement of a little Whig borough ? Let them all be preserved for the sake of rich and incompetent Jardines. Monday ...

... respectable, intelligent people who dwell therein contentedly unenfranchised, we take the dear old bishop's old attitude, when the Whigs diddled him, as his son called it, out of the rich living of Stanhope— and stand aghast! Will they stand this sort of ...

... The bait is tempting, and as concession after concession has taught Dissenters that they may ask anything they please, with a Whig Government to back them up, they will soon be knocking at the gates of Christ Church. We have described the Colleges religious ...

... bestow more than the coldest expressions of endearment. The best men of the Liberal party openly scout it; the independent Whigs and the Liberal Conservatives stoutly oppose it the Conservatives have agreed to resist it to the utmost ; and the extreme ...

... all the property that is real. A list of the greater part of his personalty was found in a Cabinet, and is sworn under the Whig average.— The Owl. Mr. Bright and the Weavers.—The following has been published in the Standard.—We think it should be properly ...

... societies were of immense national importance. They were open to all classes—the young and old, rich and poor, Conservatives, Whigs, and Radicals. Political motives now hardly entered into consideration—still in some cases they had exercised a powerful influence ...