... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... course taken the Ministry, as indicated by the meeting on Tuesday. It was true that a few rabid old Tories, a few aristocratic Whigs, and renegade Liberals—(cheers)— had conspired against tbe Government,but should they succeed placing any impediment the way ...

... had not been insincere, for he betrayed great emotion when he was obliged to withdraw his last bill. The noble earl and the Whig party were therefore not open to this charge. la 1861 an earnest and robust reformer upraided the noble lord, who triumphantly ...

... seconded by the representative of the most powerful noble family in Lancashire; that both these families belong to the old Whig aristocracy, though one, from what we may call a personal accident, has for one generation, and, as are well aware, only for ...

... unimpaesioned and statesmanlike address. He exposed the hollowness of the patriotic pretensions so loudly asserted by the Whigs, and reserving his objections to the Bill itself, argued forcibly on the terms of the resolution. Having tardily admitted the ...

... supported the Cavendishes, the Howards, tbe Sutherlands, and the Somersets. The course taken by Lord Grosvenor would separate the Whigs from the Liberals, but a contest between the nobles and the popular party, it might be relied on from experience that the former ...

... just bill. He said was very moderate, because it was less than the Tories had offered, and less than had been offered by the Whigs—(hear, hear). Many men present were whelly without any share in the representation. himself had been without a vote for long ...

... would justly, repudiate anything that they did. In conclusion, he made a forcible appeal to the independent and moderate Whigs to be wise time, and not to bury themselves prematurely in tbat tomb in Westminster Abbey in whioh the hon member for Birmingham ...