... MORIBUND WHIOGISM. The Saturday Review summarily dewribes tbe Whigs always dying. “A moribund life their normal state of existence; and perhaps they have not to tb£ conclusion that slow and apathetic circulation, lowered vital aeticn, is conducive to ...

... Beehive does not like either the Tories or the Whigs. Its eloquence is heart-stirring. The people must ignore all parties henceforth, save the Party of the people. Out with the Tories! Away with the Whigs ! Down with the Adullamites ! Gladstone and the ...

... —let me, least, as 4 An Old Whig/ express convictio —that it was subject infinite regret for true adherents of Whig principles (which I take synonymous with principles of Moderation in political action) —that ull the Whig wisdom bestowed on paper, and ...

... Woburn Abbey last week ? That meeting of the Whig nobles was kept as much as possible from public notice. Was the meeting, or at least the object of it, kept equally from the knowledge of Sir. Gladstone ? The Whig oligarchy has always been notorious for its ...

... between Whigs and Tories as it existed thirty years ago. He considers that both alike are entitled to call themselves Constitutional parties, the Tory taking upon himself the protection of the “timocratic” element in the Constitution, the Whig assuming ...

... would be a cheap contest, if for no nobler reason : but when the Tories begin to bribe the Whigs will not sacrifice their chance for moral considerations, and if Whigs arc first to spend money their opponents will do likewise. At Yarmouth the whole evidence ...

... taken aa the basis of your future political action, I wish to point out to you, and alio to yonr noble and right honourable Whig allies, some of tho results that most follow from their being unequally yoked” with yon in that alliance. In the history of ...

... Kusstxi.and Mr. Gladstonk have put themselves the head of a movement which labours to destroy the old institutions England ; Whigs and Moderate Liberals cling firmly to those institutions. The establishment of Mr. Glaijstoxf.'s ascendancy means indefinite ...

... applause, seconded the resolution. He said that in 1832 the Whigs disfranchised the working classes, because they knew them to be eminently Conservative. During long series of years the Whigs had only used Reform as a barrier to keep the Conservatives ...

... ANTI-NATIONALISM. TO JOHN BRIGHT, ESQ., M.P. Sir, —The old adage, Sa?e me from my friend* !” will naturally occur to your Whig allies as they read the speech of “The O’Bonoghue “ to the Reform League on Monday ereniog. By a singular* coincidence, the ...

... adaptation for the wants of to-day could not have been more strikingly proved than in the two speeches Tuesday —the carping, acrid Whig utterance of the elder statesman —and the dignified forbearance, the large sympathy, the ready insight, the firm reserve of ...

... Conservatives and deserted by the Liberals; and knows that whatever may be the upshot of the approaching oonfliot, whether the Whigs or the Tories are in office, the Government of the day wifi not dare to ask the House of Commons to assent a Reform Bill which ...