... 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 ...

... any longer to deny that the prime object is, not th» settlement of the Reform question, but the prolonged existence of the Whig Ministry. Observe how anxious both the Premier and the Chancellor of the Exchequer were to have it clearly understood that ...

... Franchise Bill. If the second reading is carried, the real struggle will only have commenced, for many members who prefer a Whig to a Conservative administration will continue their efforts for a complete Reform Bill, and between that and defeat the Cabinet ...

... 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 ...

... Ministry were rather terrified lest .Mr. Bright should damage the cause by going too for, as it is called. Without the Whigs, said one to me, the Liberal party cannot be held together; and if Bright frightens them away, what shall ,we do?' is this ...

... 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 ...

... party allegiance had been vindicated. The certainty of defeat on some future stage of the bill may weigh more heavily with Whig Ministers than any mere considerations of honour, but that they are bound in honour to resign is indisputable, quite apart ...

... 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 ...

... houses: Whig and Tory uniting in the common effort keep out the people. Happily for the great houses, another of their representatives, Lord Habtingtos, aqaember of the house of Cavendish, rose to prove that the defection of the aristocratic Whigs, their ...

... offence upon which whoso shall fall isnay be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall it shall grind them to powder. He urges the Whig auistocracy. also frons motives of prudence, to agree to the Reforisa proposal of the Govern. ment : The aristocracy of this ...

... well as genius and eloquence?' It was he who when the heir of a great and noble Whig house rose to move a hostile amendment put up the head of a still greater and nobler Whig House to answer and confute him. It was the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer who ...

... consulting the Whig and there could not be much danger in brought in a member of the house of supported by the Cavendishes, the Howards, a Sutter . lands, and the Somersets. The course taken fcy the aobla lord bringing in this amendment woul ' the Whig party from ...