... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 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 ...

... He was not prepared to say that if the bill had been fairly and fully considered—if the Government had consulted the old Whigs, or the members on that (the Opposition) side of the House, some compromise might have been made which would! have been acceptable ...

... moderate Liberals who do not desire to be buried alive in that memorable tomb in Westminster Abbey, in which the last of the Whigs is to rest, and his countrymen be thankful that he can repose. To them I say, with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Be wise ...