... the Whig failure in 1838, to be an evil larger, more difficult to deal with, and more in need to be dealt with, than it was before. The last of the- series of reflections suggested by the returns from which we started is connected with that Whig failure ...

... Excle- quer. The long and fierce struggle which the King had carried on with the oligarchs was all but over. Chatham Whigs and Rockingham Whigs Pelhams, Russells, and Granvilles had striven in vain to prolong the old system of government. By fair means or ...

... the bill is rejected another Government must come in, and that Government must be mainly composed of wretched old official Whigs- ineffectual for any good. There is something to be said in favour of this last argument for carrying the bill in any shape-more ...

... see. But in politics it is impossible to barricade oneself against cynicism. Can the leopard change his spots, or the great Whig families cease to regard office as their appanage l We cannot at once believe this, and unfortunately the present charming ...

... Disfranchise a number of small Whig boroughs, and transfer their seats to places now unrepresented, the voters in which form the strength of the Liberal party in the counties, and the thing is done to a considerable extent. The Whig borough loses its members ...

... the chosen representative of Whig principles, and one to whom the traditions of the elders must have descended in their full integrity. No man in the whole world probably is so well qualified in these respects to write a Whig view of Mr. Fox's career -which ...

... with a thin pretext of carrying out their own principles. Hardly less flattering to his feelings must be his relation to the Whig nobility. Reform was their property, and he has got it away from them. They were always proud of uniting the caution of an ...

... heat, and Whigs in their anxiety to conciliate Radical support, had not previously laid down doctrines and used arguments which made it impossible for them without inconsistency, and without a degree of moral courage which never was a Whig virtue, to ...

... They believe that the Tory is the natural enemy and exact oppo- site of the Whig, but they do not entirely comprehend the depth and width of the gulf which separates the Whig from the philosophical Radical and the democrat, and even then an English democrat ...

... be no bill. No doubt there are many aristocratic Whigs who privately agree with them in this opinion. But scarcely a Conservativoe dares to Make so broad an assertion. Is it then probable that many Whigs will be found to abandon their old party, and that ...

... Mr. Disraeli's scale, Herce the general question will be merely the old one between the Whig and Tory parties, with some additional circumstances favourable to Whig interests. And the result would therefore be the return of a larger 1i hig majority than ...

... had been still further stimulated in lursuit of political changes by the dethronement of Charles X. By all these events the Whigs profited in proportion. Theyhad, as was suppoted, once more a king upon the throne not averse to the policy of Reform; the ...