... 1864 they had raached the respectable figure of 17,04)0,0001., or more than three times the fact which by any other than , a Whig Minister pandering for popular support would be taken as a convincing proof of sound progression which only needed - to be ...

... government of 'which he had been a supporter had departed from the rule of Whig governments in past times, and instead of taking entirely the advice of certain portions of the Whig powers they had taken advice from that end of the House of Commons and that ...

... eve of Culloden, and like many another, the house changed hands when its master became a banished outlaw. Then some canny Whig lawyer tried to buy the pictures, and relics, and the old home associations when he bought the walls. But it will not do good ...

... The descent of Avernus is easy, but to retrace one's steps and breathe the fresh air once more, that is the difficulty. Our Whig friends have pledged themselves ; pledged their Government, pledged the QUEEN, in a succession of Speeches from the Throne ...

... have consented to purchase a bare existence at the cost of all that makes life dear. What is a political career to a great Whig nobleman if he is to be deprived of his own private boroughs? A Roman satirist has denounced the folly of those who are willing ...

... eepossible, abominable ! Sooner shall more convinced we must be of the unfitness of the J ° c, negro be blanched into the likeness Whigs to deal with a subject of such vast importance. the mu - • e 'inanity than his English friends It has been asserted that in ...

... not often be the case. And further, the grouping will generally, if not always, put an end to that dictation on the part of Whig magnates, like the Duke of SOMERSET, which has so often done the party good service. But it is not equally clear that a group ...

... had attended the operation of the Reform Act of 1832 in Scotland. Well, if anybody ought to be satisfied at this it was the Whig party. The not of 1832 gave the Liberal party in Scotland a large majority of representatives, and he believed that it was ...

... sincerely professed, wilt satisfy them now. Mr. GLA.DSTONB doubts, and with some reason,, the security of his command over the Whig party.. Ile is not one of them ;he does not like there, and they do not trust him. He must have a pasty which shall not accept ...

... mention made of the Whig borough of Shaftesbury. Why has honest Mr. Gladstone—who so detests, if we are to believe him, pocket boroughs—omitted to group this place with others. I suppose such men as Mr. Bright call this an honest Whig scheme.—Your obedient ...

... at least, while the Whig gain. will most probably be increased to six by the returns from Dublin city and , the county Cork under its action. Portarlington, alwa3s heretofore returning a Conservative, but new designated as a Whig borough, because it happens ...

... that the petty shuffles by which the details of that portion of the measure are intended to add to the preponderance of the Whig-Radical interest in the House of Commons may fairly be left to the detection which they cannot hope to escape when the measure ...