... confirmed the prosperity of this country that he has the confidence of the great bulk of the middle classes and our most eminent Whig leaders, and yet who by other wise measures for the comfort, the enlightenment, and the moral progress of the working classes ...

... gratitude to the present Government for giving them a measure of Reform more liberal than it ever entered into the mind of a Whig Administration to conceive. We know, of course, how it is that the Scotch Bill happens to be so much more liberal and satisfactory ...

... weapons with which we fought, they have done so to the principles for which we fought; and henceforward there will be neither Whig nor Tory the sense in which, up till almost the other day, they have been used. On the question of the elective franchise—the ...

... It was a measure of enfranchisement of the greatest possible advantage, and one which could not have been expected from the Whigs, simply because no Government expected to carry such a measure in the House of Commons. (Hear, hear.) He welcomed the bill ...

... tree ? Now personal rating, debating, The Ministers wish, we are told, To yield to all asking, still basking In place, with Whigs out in the cold. For Dizzy, first fiddle, to diddle His friends has got on by degrees ; And Gladstone, seditious and vicious ...

... measure going further in the direction of the enfranchisement would be opposed by the Whig section of the Liberal party, and the Radicals are not strong enough to beat the Whigs and Conservatives united. The Government bill as regards Lincoln is a much more ...