... borough, over which, although nominally there was voting of scot snd lot, had absolute and control. It happened also that wealthy Whig peer was desirous of increasing his political influence, and he requested me, then a young man and without the slightest connection ...

... inflaenoe served still forther to make the straggle an anxious one. It was, indeed, mainly to this, and sianuar defections of the Whig party, that Mr. J. E. Dorington's candidature was anything but a forlorn hope. Had the Btanton party remained firm, there la ...

... the timss of refreshing shall oome from the anxiously expected Tory Radical Reform bilL Secondly, the Ballot, whatever timid Whig or Tory may say the contrary, is the only remedy for a state of things existing in mora important places than Alvington ; and ...

... words from Lord in support of the clause, Lord Carnarvon gave it his most hearty approbation. The plan proposed was neither a Whig nor a Tbry scheme, for it seemed to meet with general approval from both sides of the House. He trusted their Lordships would ...

... Review—the chief organ of the Conservative party—ia not aoathing in ita denunciations of the Derby-Disraeli Reform polioy than it* Whig contemporary the Edinburgh. As the Stammer remarks, it is not instability of purpose or obsenrlty of vision with whioli Lord ...

... Gladstone oannot hope to take offioe with credit until new Parliament, with new views, has made him mora independent of the Whig Peers than oould be now; and it is a loss to the Ministry in tbe daily eondoet of affaire that there should not be a leader ...