... lower the franchise they would not have increase of voters? but an increase of power to the. own (H , The great point around whig* their gathered was the reduction of the borough At of tbe last Reform Bill the were admitted to a large share of power. Since ...

... the latter, while professedly a Radical, sometimes voted with the Conservatives. The doiniuant party inNottingham are the Whigs, and they endeavojred to oust Sir Robert by bringing forward Mr. Morley as a colleague for Mr. Paget. Most of the intelligence ...

... measure, and was brought forward by an honest Government. (Cheers.) It was possible that there might be timidity among the Whig supporters; but the great body of the Liberal party would, he believed, stand true to tbe cause. The real object of the Tories ...

... with the whole question. a very gross blunder indeed to suppose that the Conservatives, or the Conservatives and moderate Whigs combined, are tho only people who are in different to the Franchise Bill in its present shape. The working classes themselves ...

... possess the franchise. He disapproved of any great reduction of the county franchise because it would give to landlords, whether Whig, Tory, or Radical, an undue amount of power; and illustration he mentioned circumstance that had come to his knowledge of fourteen ...

... was proposed, and the member who proposed it, lent an air of si*picion to the whole proceeding. He was an ex-minister of a Whig cabinet and his companion- ship with Messrs. Low: and HOR1SMAIT was not calculated to please his ardent and sincere consti- ...

... measure, and was brought forward by an honest Government. (Cheers.) It was possible that there might be timidity among the Whig supporters; but the great body of the Liberal party would, he believed, stand true to the cause. The real object of the Tories ...

... therefore we reaort to indirect means. Now, Mr. himself may know of some reason why Lord *' yen or, and those of the old Whig party who and act with him. wish get rid of the Governm but no one would infer such intention from 9 terms of the amendment ...

... legislation by rrforsela, upon the atomic principle, hate the idea of all Parliamentary reform. We are not bound to speak for Whigs discontented with their leaders, but he would not dare to say in the House of Commons that his description could with any truth ...

... arrange the seats in a semi-circular form, which would enable the House to be partitioned into five divisions, and so allow Whigs, Liberals, Radicals, Independents, and Conservatives to sit apart, and the members of those parties respectively to confer ...

... parliament might and would justly repudiste pea h that they did. In conclusion, he muade a forcible AP 4 the independent moderate Whigs to be w~ise in tiioO; not to bury themuselves prematurely in that; tombin 9 ,, minster Abbey in which the hon. member for Brrwee ...

... Parliament might and would justly repudiate any. thing that they did. conclusion made forcible appeal to the independent moderate Whigs to be wise time, and not to bury themselves prematurely in that tomb in Westminster Abbey which the hon. member for Birmingham ...