... another flagrant example of Whig jobbery. Redistribution was so contrived .as to disfranchise Conservative boroughs in a greater degree than Whig boroughs, and to transfer seats to places likely to elect supporters of a Whig-Radical Administration. Mr ...

... Reform Bill of 1785 was defeated by the Whigs because it struck at the root of the nomination system in boroughs, which the Whigs the first to introduce, and which they have long profited. Afterwards the Whigs appropriated, and of course abused, the Tory ...

... cannot help their apostasy, however much we may deplore it; but its effects are terrible. They and their alli-_s the ultra-Whigs, and ultra-Radicals, have left us choice. Better household suffrage at once, subject to rating and the residence clause, than ...

... patronage in the way of trade they would be -sure to keep it and use it for party purposes. This ought not to be done either by Whig or Tory. (Hear, hear.) The commissioners he believed fairly and truly represented the people, and were more come-atable than ...

... together, and seventy of them decided tlwt they would not disgrace themselves, and overthrow Reform, for the purpose of affording Whig-Radical officials a party triumph. After such a desertion the ambitious ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer saw clearly that the ...

... Disraeli, Sir John Pakington, General Peel, and every member of the Administration, with Lord Palmerston, Lord Russell, the Whigs and Mr. Roebuck, with sundry of the Radicals, have spoken at different times against any measure of Reform as being uncalled-for ...

... country, will have a beneficial effect, helping the working-classes to estimate at its right value the determined attempt of Whigs and Liberals to ovef throw a large and generous measure of Reform» Mr. Locke, another of the Liberals who refuses to be fettered ...

... absolutely detestable : and we could * endure that sad extremity of woe which has been sp°*S of the last few days a possibility—a Whig Mini 3 ' under the veteran Lord Halifax '—rather than Reform Bill founded on this system of odious inequali should disgrace ...

... Keen though he ia debate, Mr. could not conceal the real object of the Opposition to Conservative Reform, which is, that the Whig-Liberal-Radical party may regain place and power, with Mr. Gladstone as their Prime Minister. Pray, what right, asked he ...

... throwing it out gratify a mere personal jealousy, or to promote objects of personal ambition. I believe the calmer heads among the Whig party see the folly of the course that is now pursued in certain quarters ; and know that ia private they are eager in repudiating ...