... THE MIDDLE CLASSES AND THE CONSTITUTIONALISTS. The party manoeuvre by which the Whigs won their political supremacy, and gained the support of the middle classes, has ultimately brought about tbeir disorganization, and has caused a deep and growing distrust ...

... subdued minority, Will work from rise to set of sue, And rest not till tho work is done, The work of the majority ! Hear, Tories, Whig 3, Adullamites, Pleaders for a minority ! We mean to fight a thousand fights, Till we establish all tho rights, The rights ...

... whole country that his sole idea of public duty has been that of dishing the Whigs. He maintained Church-rates, not because he regarded them as politic, but because the Whigs proposed their abolition. He stood up for the Irish Church, not for the good ...

... -thankful Lord Russell, and many Whigs, a former time had asserted that the country was not in want of Reform. True—and they may still say that Reform was not needed—but the question was forced upon them all, —Whig, Radical, and Conservative—by a dominant ...

... Those brazen faces, how can they Stand in the scathing light of day; And tell their lying, treacherous stories floundering Whigs frightened Tories ? B. n '. well the phrase was launched thee The organised hypocrisy. O happy art of shuffling votes ! O ...

... POLITICAL THIMBLE RIGGING. Play with the Tories, the Whigs, and the Radicals ! Play, and cheat all of them, Ben ! Fumble them, jumble them, tumble them, humble them ! Twist them again and again Talk of your principle.' while you hood-wink them all; March ...

... the question shall the people be contested or the moderate Whigs soothed with a compromise, we know where the latter will soon find themselves. Commenting on the timidity of the moderate Whigs, and awed by the fears of the old faction of the unmitigated ...

... men would offer them at periods of election. He was oblivious alsoof the motion of Lord Grosvenor, a Whig, and that of Lord Dunkellin, another Whig, to which was owing, principally, the defeat of a Bill that was essentially accounted dishonest, from ...

... The Philosophical- Radicals were opposed to the Whigs no less than to- the Torie», and the repugnance of Sir William Molesworth to Lord John- Russell was never eradicted. The philosophers voted with the Whigs on occasions of Ministerial distress, but abused ...

... great measures affecting your interest? The Whigs and Radicals as party—l say as a party there were some great and glorious exceptions among both the Whigs and the Radicals, but we were trongly opposed by the Whigs and the Radicals, who proess to be the working ...

... greatly doubt whether anything really so liberal will ever be offered them again. — Standard Whig and Conservative Governments.—lt seems to be a fixed rule that Whig Governments are born to blunder and Conservative' Governments to redress their shortcomings ...

... anything but pleasing combination. Disloyal or declamatory revolutionists, fiery or whimsical radicals, effete or snarling whigs, and others for whom it would be difficult to find a suitable name, are persons illsuited to the more subdued and sensible ...