... separately or by the bills together, and we have therefore the reputation, the continuance in oflice, the very existence of whig statesmen, as connected with'the radical and the reforming party—we have all this staked upon the passage through parliament ...

... dwellers in the cave. First then, let us note that his Lordship is not, as some suppose, a seceder from the Whig ranks, for ho never was a Whig. calls himself a Liberal Conservative. We should call him a hybrid. He is one of those independent members who ...

... government of which ho had been supporter had departed from tho rule of whig governments in past times, and, instead of taking entirely the advice of certain portions of the whig party, had taken advice from that end of House of Commons that section of ...

... ago, then, since he became enUrely free from the trammels of placegave up, apparently, all hopes of serving again with the Whigs—and quietly settled down on the back benches an independent member; and if we cast our eyes over these two years we shall find ...

... the Conservatives; and, they shouted, visions of Government defeat and possible political combinations which would drive the Whigs from Downing-street and open the way for the shouters to place and power, rose before their minds. What wonder, then, if m ...