... formal and suppositi- r tious lines of Whig circumvallation on such a question, I was a sad encroachment on the domain of a party 1 which wished to be supposed the incarnation of the popular cause. But while the Whigs were labourimig I to nakie their cause ...

... di viewo thus describes the present moribund condition of the rc Whigs :- It is certain that the political events of the pre- Je sent session will at langth seal the fate of the Whigs. It A was impossible that measures of similar character and inns II ...

... seeing over the heads of their Whig leaders. It only required a little wider stretch of vision to see that Conservative principles do not consist in restrict- ing political power to the hands of an oligarchy, like the great Whig families, or in hedging round ...

... electoral roll a certain limited number of n now electors bound to support the Whigs in return for Bi having got the franchise through the manceuvres and exer- p tions of a Whig Government. a The Spectafor says that the Peers would have improved n the Reform ...

... Potter, How are the mighty fallen ! when ( such men as these take the place hitherto filled by the r great Whig nobles. The exhaustion of old Whig ideas T' makes it inevitable that the Opposition, if they are to t preserve any unity, or any organised form ...

... it goes beyond the lines i of party arrangements, and appeals to the whole nation I in behalf of the institutions which the Whigs have C tampered with only to destroy. C The Scottish Conservatives have chosen to do ho- nu nour to Mr Disraeli, as the leader ...

... resistance to numbers for the future to satisfy I at the Conservatives. It was the physical force Whig bill, ess- framed in Conservative phraseology; the Whig sword ini for a Conservative scabbard, It had not the elements ofI 'or- permanence, even were it ...

... Government ever thought of making. They have brought about an d onslaught on the Irish Church, which every Govern- A ment, Whig and Tory alike, has hitherto upheld as a necessity. They have some cause for supposing that n by a little more terrorism they ...

... of a small corruptible section th 'b whih remains unpolled at half-past three in the afternoon, wI ial no mortal'virtue of Whig or Tory can stand the temptation. sic nd The remaining Resolutions are absolutely unexceptionable. to on The object of all ...

... charges of his having sacrificed their principles and tlost their confidence. It would have been no doubt very pleasant to the r Whig Goveruni cut to have carried a Reform Bill which a would have confirmed and perpetuated their party e supremacy. But that can ...

... it a fabulous cognizance in their political shield, and nothing more, r But having broken up the Whig monopoly of Liberal a professions, and left the Whig party the helpless r dependant on the convenience and occasional ne- c cessities of their Radical ...

... popularity t saI which has been hitherto the object of Whig Reform bu siBills. The development of the principles of the con- d sic, stitution is us consistent with Conservative as it is With dol wery Whig principles. Indeed, if we take the course per- so: ...