... 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 ...

... 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 ...