... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... of Commons, have .®®*son there was for introducing it—(cheers). 18 ral late in the day to say that—when *h i? , 088 —when Whigs and Tories both have u orm w b fi ® times has been liwUt ® th- Majesty's own mouth that Reform was IVK? ci Countr > —(cheers) ...

... consider the new Reform Bill, was held in this city on Friday night, when a very large gather- ing of all classes of the citizens, Whig, Radical, and Tory, assembled on the occasion, Mr. T. Southall, the Mayor presided, and amongst those present were the Members ...

... Commons into the that its existence will be prolonged , passing of the measure now before it. House rejects the bill, the Whigs may try appeal to the constituencies rather than tarily resign their places ; and if the bill a general election will be i ...

... 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 ...

... tightened, to the power of our kings. At the Bevolution our Government became virtually a Bepublic, administered by the great Whig families: but this Republic was hedged in by the social influence of the Crown on one side, and by the political influence ...

... 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 ...

... What CaVendiah or Grosvenor thinks may not be of much consequence probably to any human soul in Birmingham; but these great Whig families are of awful import in the House—mystic, wonderful—and their utterances regarded as oracular. Later the evening, on ...