... 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 ...

... Peel was styled a sudden caprice, provoked, t without reference to the interests of the country, by a desire to outbid the Whigs. n These sentiments were endorsed even by M. l Thiers, who contended that although, as events turned out, free trade had not ...

... yet the forms and principles of constitutional government are scrupulously adhered to both by victors and vanquished, that Whig, Tory, and Radical alike must join in admiration of a struggle which has shown so conclusively the power of a thorough con ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 Sn-and-so, having been the intimate friend andsome time the ...

... IRELAND. The Times holds that the view of Irish affairs taken by Lord Grey is essentially the old-fashioned viewv, the orthodox Whig view in the days of Lord Melbourne and Lord Normanby, of Lord Carlisle and the late Lord Bessborough. Lord Grey looks at the ...

... asuntY In no less than six royal speeches ' Tarliarnenry Reformn been promised to ae peoples and by Conlservative as well as whig ministers Mr. Gladstone was justified saying the responsibility of Earl Russell's Oeinent, in bringing a measure of Parlia- ...

... in the liberality or in the determi- ,stion of the present Government. We knew that it has far too much of the sterile old Whig element in its composition to allow it to be genuinely liberal in any of its measures. We knew that Mr. Gladstone, and probably ...

... extracts from the election addresses of members. a on this side of the house-I am not sure about the other- and especially of Whig ministers jest previous to the alelo ttion in Jnse, 1859. The article contains extracts from the- .speeches of Lord Palmerston ...

... -scale a coup de tfte (a sudden caprice), provokealwithout reference to the interests of the country by: a desire to outbid the whigs. Although, as events turned out. he had not' ruined England, it would~iiin France. which had no aristocratic class, but an ...