... ;;-but those changes will but make them more competent, and to change effete Whigs into active Whigs is not, Disraeli will shortly discover, equivalent to “ dishing.” Whigs. Lord Hartington, with a Radical programme, is at least as formidable a person ...

... majority into a practical minority.” To “ dish the Whigs” was the object which the party had in view from the beginning, and the self-congratulations which we hear amount to no more than this, that the Whigs have been “ dished,” and that in “dishing” them ...

... just quoted fur- nishes the key to the secret history of the Reform Bill, “Dishing the Whigs was the idea uppermost in the Conservative mind all through the The Whigs have offered so much; let us offer so much more, and outbid them—trip up their heels ...

... have no opinions or feelings ia harmony with those of the Liberal that they bave been accust ty, ex {rom t cradle te look on Whig magnates and not Tory magnates. To all these men a change unwelcome, and it would be un- Ministry would be weleome to men of ...

... was a most disrupt and hete- rogeneous one. The W~higs voted with' the extreme Radicals, not to assist them in their views, but in order to circumvent and defeat them. The Radicals did not vote with the Whigs from any Unity of principle, but that they might ...

... with which the Whigs and Radicals have dabbled and played for a score years, to the obstruc- tion of every other important amendment in our ad- ministrative affairs. The acknowledgment does not come from one side alone. Boastful Whigs, cha- grined Radicals ...

... single Democrat, Some of them may return Whigs of the old school, but the great majority will return Constitutionalists. Thus the effect of the Reform Bill will be politically to extinguish the Tory and the Whig (or Liberal) parties-to reduce the combatants ...

... his bill, desired to strengthen their own intermediate posi- tion by forming an alliance with certain of the aristo- cratic Whigs hitherto attached to the late Government. Incredible as it may seem, they are said to have cherished hopes of alienating no ...

... loudly cheered, made a capital speech in proposing H Her Majesty's Ministers, congratulating theni upon hsaving dished the Whigs, and sAhowing the Liberals, having always used the Reform question for party purposes, it was positively necessary to settle ...

... disciplined. The various parties will submit to the changes demanded by cir- cumstances; the coalition of Whigs and Radicals will perhaps break up; the Whigs become more Conservative and the Tories more Liberal; old demarcations will bh wiped away, and new ...

... decisively showed not merely an extension of Conservative influence and feeling, but also the gratifying fact that independent Whigs, like Lord DENMAN, are breaking away from their hereditary traditions, and joining the ranks of the Constitutionalists; there ...

... believed the Reform Bill, in ite improved form, was carried by the public feeling raised by Mr. Bright, and not by either the Whigs or the Tories. The case of Martin v. the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie was heard on Tuesday, in the Court of Arches, the charges the ...