... 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 ...

... the throne, was undoubted and unequivocal. Every party stands committed to these declarations of the necessity of Reform; —Whigs, Radicals, Tories; there is no exception. And yet, with everybody pledged chin-deep, all round there are plenty of members ...