... and partly to their memories of Sir Robert Peel, have idea that Tories, for some reason or other, govern more strongly than Whigs. The Tories always enter office with a liazy prestige of that sort, and this time the Recess has helped greatly to clear it ...

... scarcely a pin to ch ose between Whigs and Tories when in office ; but this last little episode should serve to show such persons that there are inherent aud unalterable differences. The most rigid and exclusive Whig admits in all its force the nciple ...

... Reform, and leit to all the blind chances of the future? We trust not. We care for no party, no section, no clique. Whether Whig or Tory is in office is profoundly indifferent to us. The welfare of the peo- ple is our supreme law. It is because we desire ...

... standing still, much less retrogression ; even delay is dangerous at this momentous crisis. In some small boroughs a few imbecile Whigs may make common cause with the Tories and endeavour to repress public opinion, upon the pretence of resisting the inroads of ...

... to a crisis they go to some court of law, a committee of the Privy Council, or somewhere else, and a number of judges with whigs on—(langhter)—decide what is, or is not, orthodox iv the Church of England. I am glad to see zeal in the Church of England ...