... weighty, and so much in the line of precedent, that there was no denying it, and it carried the day against the chief of the Whigs, the chief of the Peel section, and the chief of the Radical Reformers. All the progressives of the country, whether constitutional ...

... revo• lution, and to shake the aristocracy, the Church, and Thriin.., with a terrible convulsion to their ultimate ruin. The Whigs themselves were afraid of the monster they had created ; the principle of concee'ion to mob law sod the popular will had been ...

... votes of the majority,—and on this ground, as a student of history and a friend of reason, he condemned the bill of the Whig Ministry and all Ra dical plans fur the indiscriminate enfranchisement of the people. He diuposc'l of the argument from the ...

... think the tr.easiire of the Conservative Government in 1859 would compare favourably with the hasty measures proposed by the Whigs. Now iv wish that the few words I am about to utter could reach the ears of that distinguished man. I would say to him that ...

... Liberal party. Therefore, if the ills cf Ireland are due to had legislation, they are chargeable upon the legislation of the Whig party. In my opinion the worst step Mr. Bright has taken is what he has said in a certain letter he wrote to a friend at Exeter ...

... Wednesday, under the auspices of Earl Russell. The Spectator takes a gloomy view of the prospects of the Liberal party. The old Whigs are descri , e•l to he all in a twitter, and as rushing to the Glob , t, announce the fact. In support of this statement ...

... or to be transferred to GLADSTONE Is the reign of the effete Whigs come to an end, and is a new dynasty to be erected? Is GLADSTONE to be asked to resign his leadership to a gentler Whig? This is the question now debated among the Liberals ; the chiefs ...

... Liberals who came from an old and well-known political stock which ran into rather wild courses last summer. He was of an old Whig official family, but took it into his head that what occurred in connection with the Worm League and the holding of the Park ...

... office. Mr. Seeley's statements were contradicted ; his results fleeted, and his enquiries disconcerted at every turn by the Whig Admiralty ; but the present board, in a frank rind manly manner, accepted the statements of a political opponent as correct ...

... POLITICAL PARTIES. The Saturday Review suggests the painless extinction of the great Whig party as a grand subject for him who strung the elaborate harp of elegy in his In Memoriam, and who wept over the tender grace of a day that is dead. It is with ...

... excuse for his ill-tempered avowal that he neither promises support nor threatens opposition. After all, the last of the Whigs has spoken, and we may turn from an exhibition of petty personal spite to the real leader of the Liberals, Mr. GLAUSIONK he ...

... boroughs, with triangular seats for counties and aU manner of queer and complex conditions, bid two years later by Peelite-Whig-Radical coalition, and then withdrawn at the first note of the trumpet Bounding to war. On the other hand they have seen a ...