... of his motion for rejecting the Franchise Bill unless the whole Government scheme of reform is laid before Parliament, the Whigs betrayed great dread of defeat. Efforts were made to induce Mr. Gladstone to eat his words and save his party, and Earl Russell ...

... second reading the Reform Bill. Mr. G. Potter occupied the chair, and denounced the vile conspiracy between the aristocratic Whigs and tbe Tories to defeat the bill. Resolutions declaring the bill to be on whole worthy of support, and protesting agaic&t ...

... were to be admitted were as worthy io give their vote to who should make the laws as the highest man in the country. The great Whig lords and the Tory country gentieraen said they bad a stake the country and they were afraid. He utterly denied that they had ...

... the throne, was undoubted and unequivocal. Every party stands committed to these declarations of the necessity of Reform; —Whigs, Radicals, Tories; there is no exception. And yet, with everybody pledged chin-deep, all round there are plenty of members ...

... accepting a manly opposition. He liked the Tory opposition eo far it went. It was honest and manly, but he did not like the Whig opposition. Lot these noble lords and members of the aristocracy say that they hated all reform, and that they would not give ...