... opposed by the Whig Government of the day, shewing the readiness of the Tories to promote improvements, and the decided aversion of the Whigs to any change in the representative system. In course of time the selfish conduct of the Whigs created a majority ...

... authority, who can scarcely be objected to. While describing the character of the Whigs in the time of William 111., Lord Macaulay, the great Whig historian, remarks: 4 The Whigs loved William indeed, but they loved him not as a King, but party-leader ; and ...

... the firm stand made by the Consevatives in the ifouse of Peers, that you were saved from the execution of the Whig sentence. Those same Whigs have attempted to disfranchise you more than once since that time, and the minions of that party are still en ...

... opposition to this moderate measure, predicting that the success of such a coalition might dissociate the great body of the Whig nobility from the popular cause, and warning them that in a contest with the popular party on one side and the nobility on ...

... position forensically, has revealed new and unexpected defections from their ranks. The number actually pledged to support the Whigs are of themselves insufficient to avert defeat, and Earl Russell knows not on whom else he may safely rely. His agents in the ...

... made to puff this principle of bit by bit reform into favour just now, for the sole and transparent purpose of keeping the Whigs in office throughout the protracted process of carrying such a scheme into effect. Lord Russell is reported to have said at ...

... made to puff this principle of bit by bit reform into favour just now, for the sole and transparent purpose of keeping the Whigs in office throughout the protracted process of carrying such scheme into effect. Lord Russell is reported to have said the ...

... which they cannot endure the thought of. The old constitutional Whigs are dying out, and it is a lamentable thought to reflect upon, that the man who was once the most constitutional Whig of his day, has dwindled and degenerated into a mere party huxter ...

... ing a glorious majority of 1,532 against the little Whig abortion. Men of Coventry ! Who attempted, on two occasions, to disfranchise the Coventry Freemen ? —Answer : Lord John Russell and the Whigs. Why do Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone propose the present ...

... and put the puppets iu motion all over the country; and since the Manchester party have acquired the complete control of the Whig Government, the mandate for agitation generally issues from the great haunt of the cottonocracy. Since the duclosure of the ...

... —showing a glorious majority of 1,532 against the little Whig abortion. Men of Coventry ! Who attempted, on two occasions, to disfranchise the Coventry Freemen?— Answer: Lord John Russell and the Whig*. Why Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone propose the present ...

... resorted to eaeeeesfnllj to pack the meeting, hen wee .mmednuelj rcetored. The band ,j, ' , i„ d „„ result was Mr. and the Whigs—in support of men whose leading fiJley. malting.*”.JS Od to Od per quartoi let a supplementary meeting be held quietly and ...