... converted -whig is sick, have not among 4 themn a peer-with brains enough~tocarry obhis orders,. I who have. raised Mr. Disraeli to .power because he broke i theheart of their own one .man of genius naturally1 exult. The Upper House without whigs would ae ...

... lt. They state:-- The great services of the l(aguo in aiding the passage of the Reformn Bill are now admitted by tories, whigs, and radicals. That it falls short of our demands- that it is even defective as a piece of legislative machinery -is not our ...

... Gladstone, nor Mr. Disraeli, nor the whigs, nor the radicals that carried the bill in its improved form, for nearly all the bad clauses were dropt without a division. I will inform you, in the words of an eminent whig lawyer, but not of the present Edinburgh ...

... of that disposi- tion, all the responsibility of the situation when Parliament assembles is theirs.-I am, &c., Jan. 25. A WHIG. ...

... carried, the result would have been to set up for a moment in- discriminate household suffrage, but as neither Tories nor Whigs would have allowed that to re- main, both would have next united in favour of Mr. Gladstone's restrictions, and hence the restric- ...

... triumph of whig or tory, but the H passing of the Reform Act of 1867, which the II working men were willing to accept as not only a {C concession itself, but as the forerunner of future C concessions. At the commencement of the sew- sion the whigs could not ...

... begged to tell the whigs and radicals that no Le Reform Bill could be passed by parliament whichlwas not 'e conservative in its influence, unless it were revolutionary. a But why did Mr. Spofforth circulate that letter? Because s- the whigs and radicals were ...

... been accustomed to do. Trust thens, both of Iyou. (Hear, hear.) Well, in defiance of all the organised opposition of the whigs and radicals dur-iug the whole of the -past session, Lord Derby carried his bill triumnphantly; and is was by the assastane ...

... boroughs 222 We cannot anticipate th6 electoral statistics of i 1809, but they will doubtless be very instructive. I How many whigs calling themselves liberals, or conservatives calling thenmselves constitutionalists, may be accepted by the newly-enfranchised ...

... reduced * roughs has been absurdly small; in 1859 Mr. Disraeli proposed 6,000; last year Mr. Gladstone substituted 8,000 P-efor whig boroughs; conservative ones were to be swamped Iii groups); the other day Mr. Disraeli put the figure at 1 .oo. Of course, ...

... not a homogeneous one to begin with ;'being a composed of two rather incongruous sections, the, whigst and the radCOals, the whigs being both the isere nume- rous, and, in, parliament at least, the 'more pow- erfal of the two. With that more' numerous 'and ...

... Bill. No doubt there are many aristocratic Whigs who privately agree with them in this opinion. But here again interposes the difficulty of party l allegiance. Reform is now become the very shib- boleth of Whigs. If it came to a vote-say on a t motion of ...