... then be the duty of Parliament to accept the bill. No Government, whether Whig or Tory, ever before proposed a bill based on household suffrage, and no Government, whether Whig or Tory, may bring forward in our day another measure, if this be lost, so ...

... no possible Ministry could overcome. The whole clerical and Tory interests would be dead against it, and two-thirds of the Whig gentry and aristocracy would side with them. As for Irish Protestantism, we much suspect that even Presbyterian Orangemen would ...

... without Glad- stone's help? 9 ?? answer from Gladstone. Greet the blackguard? Support Derby and the Tories against the thievish Whigs ! March 30- 7 AM. Left B 22, same number as the convalescent ward at M.B.W. (some other prison) ; down below, got my own ...

... clause of the bill which relates to the borough franchise, except prevent a combination of Adal- lamites, of the narrower Whigs, and the more bigoted. Tories, from restricting even that rating franchise which the Government offers. Reformers would prefer ...

... on. In the old days of the Grenvilles, the Rockinghams, and the Portlands, party action meant the action of a few powerful Whig or Tory families, who arranged their proceedings behind the scenes, and then led their- followers into the field, to victory ...

... middle-class men. Their politics are not all of one colour, and that colour the Government's. Lumpington is a Constitutional Whig; Hittall is a benighted old Tory. As for Mr. Bottles, he is a Radical of the purest water; quite one of the Manchester school ...

... Liberals, who is to lead them? Is it seriously meant that he is to be placed under a worn-out Whig peer, who is to coach him, and show him the secrets of Whig art? Let us hope that at least this stage of political decrepitude is over, and that the Reform ...

... party. It is beyond all doubt that he is now the only man who is thoroughly qualified for the position, and to think of some Whig mediocrity, some peer, obscure in all but social rank, holding that place while Mr. Gladstone sat. on a back bench is a mere ...

... years. That point determined, they might leave the Whigs to settle the rest. Settle it they must, or their party would be settled ; and with only a one year's residence the annihilation of the Whigs was certain. Mr. F. S. Powell, M.P ., in the course ...

... occasionally with much vehemence. He contended that the Conservatives were now only restoring to the working classes what the Whigs and Radicals took from them in i832. Itwas true that Mr. Gladstone had declared that he had given up the leadership of the ...

... Church and State party, and 'not fully sharing in its old-fashioned die-in-the-ditch patriotism. Others are, so to speak, Whigs and Low Churchmen, inheriting, with the slow hereditary obstinacy of their race, the opinions of the party opposed to the House ...

... liberality to those in poverty and distress had been -unparalleled. High and low, rich and poor, Churchmen and Dissenters, Whig, Tory,- and Radical, all combined together and united in one common expression of regard and love for one who had laboured ...