... formal and suppositi- r tious lines of Whig circumvallation on such a question, I was a sad encroachment on the domain of a party 1 which wished to be supposed the incarnation of the popular cause. But while the Whigs were labourimig I to nakie their cause ...

... BE2NTD OF TME WHIGS (From the saydas a &vist) -ir Disraeli, at the close of a (tiwuphant 'Session, does not affect to disguise his joy at having out-whigged his natural enemies, the Whigs. The reign of Vhiggism began with the Reform Bill of 1832, and ...

... 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 ...

... keep them in abeyance, in compliance with the wishes and interests of the Whig chiefs when inT power, or attempting to obtain power. We prefer M infibitely an out-and-out Whig, or an out-and.out - Tory, to politicians of this hybrid.nature. A chemical ...

... di viewo thus describes the present moribund condition of the rc Whigs :- It is certain that the political events of the pre- Je sent session will at langth seal the fate of the Whigs. It A was impossible that measures of similar character and inns II ...

... by the perpetual stultification of the Whigs, should at last, from very weariness of' the subject, give a sort of tacit acquiescence in the oft-repeated statement, and, in despair of a bad bargain, accept the Whigs at their own standard of merit. They hare ...

... No. It is this, and this alone- the Whig borough franchise of 1832 has disappeared But by whom was this discarded? Why by the Whigs themselves. Bat, more than this, in 1859 Lord Derby's G{Governnment gave the Whig party an opportunity of re- penting their ...

... seeing over the heads of their Whig leaders. It only required a little wider stretch of vision to see that Conservative principles do not consist in restrict- ing political power to the hands of an oligarchy, like the great Whig families, or in hedging round ...

... declared himself one'of - the eest 'andmostl' consistent 'patrons' of the 'AntiLCoriq L*avr,', ?? -WVith. all' thii.talk f.£ Whig -and Tor, , er. 'w~iosEeems quite out of date, there a'many :J : people- -who -care a good deal more- for 'fre trade and p ...

... electoral roll a certain limited number of n now electors bound to support the Whigs in return for Bi having got the franchise through the manceuvres and exer- p tions of a Whig Government. a The Spectafor says that the Peers would have improved n the Reform ...

... until a political dead-lock arrived, and the Whigs were unable to carry any measures ; and he refused to suffer, and to be made a martyr, and renew his sacrifices year after year, in order to keep the Whigs in office, and enable them to appoint Bishops ...

... 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 ...