... Interest in the quesi their power to shelve Lord Grosvenor, he it said one thing and really undeserving of co that jealousy and Whig families induced ti the Government to set no doubt that the uios to meet with was occasi ranks rather than by To the course ...

... men in connexion with question has no foundation. Lord John Russell may, I think, looked upon as a fair representative of the Whig party, and I may take it for granted that they, too, were not justly open to this charge. How, then, standi the ease with those ...

... maintenance of the exclusion of the Roman Catholics from all situations and offices of responsibility. lam sorry to say that both Whigs and Tories of that day united in carrying to the greatest extreme the Acts which imposed disabilities upon Roman Catholics ...

... member* of that party? and are not the Government, in failing to consult the feelings and wishes of the great majority of the Whig party, leaving the old traditions of their party? (Cheers.) I am proud on this occasion be able to say on >%he part of some—it ...

... with the Whig party. (Hear.) Now, if the noble lord will allow me in a perfectly friendly manner to give him little advice, I will do it in one sentence. The course that he is taking is a course that tends to drive away important persons of the Whig party ...

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

... his lordship was entitled to. His amendment represented the defection from Liberal opinions of considerable portion of the Whig aristocracy, but he (Mr. Neate) thought the time of their power would be short if all the aristocracy of England were banded ...

... with that the Whigs do while the hon. member for Longford would desire mete not infiuence the masses. (Hear, hear,” and laughter.) treat f this matter local qu -stion the boo. member for - —the hierarchy, the aristocracy, and the Whig party more com ...

... very great change in the position and prospects of the Government. I will not say of that Government, as was said of another Whig Government I think in 183T* that when the brains were knocked out, it was impossible for the carcase to continue to exist. ...

... was really undeeerring cf coosideration. It might be possible that jealousy au«l dis rust on the part of some of the great Whig families induced them covertly to oppose the efforts of the Government to settle the question, but there could no doubt that ...

... freeholds were situated. But the Cabinet, a whole, did not take that line. There was a steady resisUece on the part of many Whig gentlemen, and the division on that subject was the only one by which Government was seriously inconvenienced. Indeed, Sir ...

... hear.) Here ia account of the unhappy transaction 1 have just referred to from the Annual Register : The resignation of the Whig Government was not attributed to any single or definite cause. though the recent defeat of the Government on the motion of ...