... 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 ...

... inability of the Whig* or Conservatives to carry a measure of reform without the aid each other, this meeting is of opinion that, although the Reform Bill introduced the Government does not give satisfaction all parties, it is the duty both Whigs and Conservatives ...

... denre either to sacrifice the possibility, nay. even the cer- I t of a settlement, for the splendid gratification j seeing the Whigs in office, nor will they consent to embarrass the discussion of the problem now approaching solution giving hearing to the ...

... setting to work to discharge its proper mission of rectifying the mischief which has grown up under the baneful influence of Whig indifference and incapacity. It is not too much to say that if the conspiracy organised last week against the Reform Bill had ...

... mob insolence. Ido hope that Mr. Disraeli and his friends will stick to their point in this matter, and that all respectable Whigs will back them. It is quite possible that things may get a good deal worse than they are, and Radical mobs be more violent ...

... have more and not less confidence in his own powers of leadership ; that be ought to look more to the people and leas to the whigs ; and that he ought to seek the support of the oountry, and to resist with a firm foot the undisciplined encroachments of uncertain ...

... tho King was obstinate. He .1 give a (xirtf blanche. And taking into consideration the offence that would be given to man the Whig peers by the proposed exercise of prerogative, there was no saying how many new creations might not be necessary. While matters ...

... on both points hold a different opinion. There may possibly have been some intriguing for office in the background. Veteran Whigs may have thought that the time was once more come for themselves and their friends; but no one can suppose that Mr. Gladstone ...

... it will be seen, twenty-four of the original Adullamites, seventeen who call them• selves radical, and- five very moderate whigs, not in the old cave. The only metropolitan members on the • list are the members for Marylebone, Mr. H. Lewis and Mr. T. ...

... liberals, who is to lead them ? Is it seriously meant that he is to be placed under a worn-oat whig peer, who to coach him, and show him the secrets of whig art? Let us hope that at least this state of political decrepitude is over, and that the Reform ...

... eatistainaon that the het year LM tia.:l , than u-nally hop o ~,dneesent be bid the piritidirs attacks to whith he was Me. Whig unable to etwn.l the roan. I of Cobden Maur at 311anchour, whisk laeteie Monday, ia oamesteasas• of haying we got* Pads a with ...

... mob insolence. Ido hope that Mr. Disraeli and his friends will stick to their point in this matter, and that all respectable Whigs will back them. It is quite possible that things may get a good deal worse than they are, and Radical mobs be more violent ...