... THE STARTLED WHIGS. THE tenacity of Whig prejudice is very curious. There is far more sympathy between the true Conservative and the true Liberal, than between the Whig and the latter. One would think that modern progress would widen the Whig’s area of vision ...

... enable the Whigs to win. If mere faction is to prevail, another Radical seat would only be a vote against Lord Derby like the Whig scat, —and why should the Conservatives care who gives the vote ? The difference now-a-days between an Edinburgh Whig lawyer ...

... be their friends (cheers). He begged to tell the Whigs and Radicals that no Reform Bill could be passed Parliament which was not Conservative its influence, unless was revolutionary. How did the Whigs act in 1832 ! Why, they sent men to take tbe census ...

... were to be extended. On one side lay the property of a great Whig Duke : on the other, within a similar distance, was the estate of an old Tory family. The borough was enlarged on the Whig side : the Tory estate was left out in the the cold. What effect ...

... question. It is allowed on all hands that the present Bill is an improvement upon Mr. Gladstone’s Bill of last year. Neither the Whigs nor the Radicals would think of going back to that Bill; they know that Mr. Disraeli’s is much better. Now then, as Mr. Baines ...

... give him any definite idea. But he will be left in no doubt as to the fact that a great Party fight is about to come off. The Whigs are at their old work again. To-night they are to make a vast effort to turn out the Government and get hack into power. This ...

... Conservatism of the English people. That Conservative apirit resulted in complete resurrection of the Tory party.” In 1841 the Whig Ministry, whose majoritiaa had been gradually decreasing, were beaten on a vote of want of confidence, and appealed to the ...

... Reform, and the Whigs, under the leadership Mr. Gladstone, are moving heaven and earth to defeat that measure on the very ground *t it* being 100 Überal. The Conservatives bass their bill on tbs principle Household Suffrage; the Whigs oppose it for that ...

... to the disadvantage of the Conservatives, in the manner in which this celebrated prize - controversy was determined by the Whigs and by their opponents. If, after a five years’ struggle, justice is now to be substantially vindicated in this important case ...

... constitutional principles, and are unanimous in supporting the programme which begins and ends with the restoration of the Whigs to Downing-street. Is this the end and aim of all political feeling among the working classes, or are we to assume, with Mr ...

... simple, and unconditional. Whig statesmen in vain propose to substitute revenue for restrictive duties on all imports. Conservative Government comes in on the cry of Protection—and sweeps Protection clean overboard. Whig statesmen vain propose a mild ...

... gentleman of evidently imperfect memory. Now, what is the moral of this paltry affair ? Clearly this : that the residuum of the Whig party, of whom Mr. BRAND is a fair representative, cannot understand the vast importance of the political situation. They look ...