... wittily and memorably remarked, Sir Robert Peel and bis colleagues found the Whigs bathing and stole their clothes. Year after year, as the assimilation became more complete, it was Whig votes that Sir Robert Peel c irried many of his chief measures against ...

... pronounced to 'Je beyond his means, and in some particularly uraorant and underbred quarters, was spoken of as preferring Whigs to his own men, and as soliciting them with some submissiveness to Wve under his flag. The truth, of course, was ,ihat her ...

... between Whig and Radical—(A load Hear from the Opposition bench)—yet when the arbitrary lines of party are difference between Radical and Whig, though Whig and Radical differ more from each other than Moderate ConserratiT differs from a Moderate Whig. (Hear ...

... lately so closely united, were for : bitter politwal ..Ann. tagonists. But the process which united Lord Russell and other Whigs to Mr Gladstone and other Peebles was not com- pleted in few cUya, the period which Eome foolieh people think sufficient in ...

... Lowe and Lori Craobenrne than between Mr Lowe and Mr Bright, and there is next reaaon, but a sentimental one, why Moderate Whigs should nfft Mas accepted o«oe Ministry headed ty Lord Derby, and of wfaioh Lord Stanley fa prominent member. The Moderate Whigt ...

... preference. the Edinburgh local contests, when Tory, Whig, and Radical contested for overtopping the poll, bine, buff, and green were the party colours. The blue has been sufficiently indicated. The Whig buff took its rise from mistaken retention our local ...

... when old party ties have to broken np and new ones formed —when resistance to common danger renders necessary the Junction Whigs with Conservatives—they are unwilling to allow the slightest suspicion to cast upon the purity of their motives, and refuse ...

... of an Irish Republic had been felt to be a boro, merely giving occasion lor windy dcclaimers to air their eloquence, and lor Whig administrators to show their incompetency. Men who really knew Ireland and the well had never any belief in its vitality. They ...

... taken off her neck,” said Dr Johnson of Mrs Thrale; and the saying may be applied to Palmerston's successors. When will the Whigs ever find such leader again? Meanwhile, the task which the Earl of Derby bos undertaken is no light one; nor is any- body yet ...

... was pronounced to be beyond his means, and in some particularly ignorant and underbred quarters, was spoken of as preferring Whigs to his own men, and as soliciting them with some submissiveness to serve under his flsg. The truth, of course, was that her ...

... constituents, not to spesk of his own rery extensive connections. That washed-out personage, Mr Villiers, vapid and servile Whig-Radical, for whom the influence of ; his brother, Lord Clarendon, ought long ago have procured a retiring pension, will be ...

... was taken off her neck,” said Dr Johnson of Mrs Thrale; and the saying may applied to Palmerston's successors. hen will the Whigs ever find such leader again '■ Meanwhile, the task which the Earl of Derby has undertaken is no light one; nor is anybody vet ...