... passing of this Reform BUI? (Cheers.) The Conservatives had always been ready to propose reform; they had certainly opposed Whig measures, which were not based upon sound constitutional principles, but they had invariably supported those measures which ...

... authority which gave him the soubriquet of finality John and now that authority and his new friends (for his old ones, the Whigs pur sang, stand aloof) have suddenly become more liberal and less nice than they have ever been for thirteen years. However ...

... of a Cabinet Minister without portfolio may induce criticism the House of Commons. But uch a, position was filled in the Whig Ministry by the Marquis of Lansdcwnb his declining years, and early days of the Aberdeen Administration, Lord J. Russell filled ...

... add—the money also of very different association from that which first brought him to this borough He has done the work of the Whig Radicals most heartily and to them must look for his 'try, ...

... even of success was left 'loused. But all failed because Mr. Gladstone's object too transparently veiled; while some of his Whig *>lleagues and followers were as desirous of giving him as snub as they appear to have been of keeping the question of Reform ...

... secured deserters from the Liberal ranks. With the attraction of a settled and apparently Liberal prin- ciple he has won both Whigs and TorIes to his standard, and if no unforeseen accident should mar his triumph Lord DERBY and he will give their names to ...

... alluded to the Reform Bill as a measure of the greatest possible advantage—a measure that could not have been expected from the Whigs, and one which he would support with all his heart. He believed that the redistribution clauses, however, were totally inadequate ...

... first number. Brooks's, we need not tell our readers, Is an old established Whig club, where *, Ur, Gladstone is ascrcely ae Yet more popular-such Is the stubborn nature of old Whigs-than at the Carlton, o of which he has never ceased to be a member, The ...

... householder, had been thrown over. (Applause.) The Conservative party had summoned up courage at last oppose the principles of Whig oligarchy which opposed the exercise the elective franchise those persons most entitled to enforce aud enjoy it. They have ...

... few months aeo because he knew well that if he moved for the purpose of bringing in a Reform Bill, Lord Palmerston and his Whig friends would have been immediately turned out of office, or he himself put down. Therefore it was that Mr. Bright had not ...

... measure going further in the direction of enfranchisement would be opposed by the Whig section of the Liberal party, and the Radicals are not strong enough beat the Whigs and Conservatives united. The Railway Dilemma. —Railway debenture holders must not ...

... the Reform Bill, and the emphatic declaration of many Liberals that they are getting more out of the Conservatives than the Whigs could ever have granted, meetings continue be held here and there at which dissatisfaction is expressed with the measure. These ...