... more extended representation of the working classes, either lowering the present general franchise, was proposed by the late Whig Government, to £7, or by creating for them special franchise, analogous to that possessed by the English and Irish Universities ...

... are we to have here—Revolution or Reform (Loud cheers ) Mr Jones, in speaking of the prospects of Reform, characterised the Whigs—the so-called Liberals— aa the obstructives the political adventurers, who kept Reform as an open question because it kept ...

... the house. A report has been made to the Lord-lientenant, through the Right Hon. Mr Morris, Attorney-General, M.P.— Northern Whig. ...

... compromise is gone for ever.. (Hear, hear.) one period during the great free- trade controversy, if tbe I Tones had joined the Whigs they might have carried the proposition for perpetuating 8s fixed duty on corn : but thank God they were so perverse in their ...

... This was the allegation. Parliamentary Reform was not a people's question, but a sort of stalking-horse from behind which Whigs could get a safe shot at their political foes ; and now that the industrious orders in all parts of England and Scotland have ...

... case of greater man than this scribbling wiseacre. The Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, M.P. for London, and a member of the late Whig Cabinet, took his first-class in 1852, and, unless he took his B.A. last year, hag no degree. A reference to the Oxford Calendar ...

... from church. According to a thoughtful weekly contemporary, the Examiner, the most independent and intelligent men among both Whigs and Radicals have during the autumn given up the notion of a £7 franchise, and pronounced for household suffrage. Anything ...

... generously with this Reform Question. They have it in their power to abolish at once and for ever the distinctions between Whig, Tory, and Radical, in so far at least as the question of the elective franchise is concerned ; but to this they must cast ...

... capital has an overwhelming majority. By what classes of the community are the representatives returned at present? No one, Whig or Tory, will deny that the real power of election is exercised inainiy by the owners of realised property. Labour, whether ...

... important of them, might be affirmed by all parties, but the real task of settling the question would not have commenced. Whigs and Tories, in common with the most advanced Radicals, may be prepared to admit, for example, that the number of electors for ...

... govern upon those Whig principles which, without i alienating my old adherents, may secure to me some support from the more independent members of the Opposition. Whatever measure tends to promote the stability of Government, though Whig onsin and prinsipl ...

... expected to live. A new political party, at least a party wi„ a new name, has produced by the current Reform addition to the Whigs and Tories. Conservatives, Liberal-Conservatives, and Radica.i&, we have now class of politicians who have adopted the term ...