... which, although nominally there was voting scot and lot, he had absolute and entire control. It happened also that a wealthy Whig peer was desirous of increasing his political influence, and he requested me, then a young man and without the slightest connection ...

... parties have evidently lost heart and life, and the will of the nation has taught them what to do. The Review considers the Whigs are at an end, but that the Liberal party in future (Radical) will be more vigorous and powerful than ever. A letter appears ...

... intention for them to find out what were his political views, even if he had any very strongly defined ones, hettier ne was a Whig or a Tory, whether he thought of the Kelorna BUI as a good or bad bill, nobody would find out that night. He, however, looked ...

... notions which have nothing better than novelty to recommend them will not be received now although they may be recommended by Whig chiefs who can no longer control the great Reform question. On the whole the debate in the Lords leads to the conclusion that ...

... contended that this was a delusion. In times gone by the counties of England were represented largely by men belonging to the Whig or Liberal party, and he believed that they were destined to be so represented again. It had been sometimes said that language ...

... Providence to keep them straight on the road ? The chairman of the Manchester Conference gave a fancy sketch of the Tories and Whigs, according to which the latter were composed of a large majority of the aristocracy, the shopkeepers, and Nonconformists ; ...

... alteration as possible. It would seem from the crop of amendments of which notice has been given, however, that a number of ultra-Whig and Conservative gentlemen are most desirous to effect the mutilation which Lord Derby so much dreads. There are all sorts ...

... danger of divided councils. In consequence of the opposition to the candidature of Sir S. Romilly by the more Conservative Whigs, 1812, the Liberal party received blow from which they did not recover for many years. There is, however, a vast difference ...

... society he is at one *- with the great Liberal party whom they profess to represent, They should not choose the protege of effete Whig politicians, the pupil in a narrow and conventional school, the timid advocate of a slowly-dying cause. They should choose ...

... up to the period of her marriage had indulged in strong feelings of political partisanship, her sympathies being with the Whigs, but under Prince Albert's influence this feeling was gradually extinguished. The Prince on his marriage determined to stand ...

... performed important services for England. It is very necessary that they should be chosen from both sides —the same number of Whigs as of Tories ; and above all do I wish that they should be well-educated men and of high character, who, as I have already ...

... current, that the chief argument of the noble earl in inducing his party to support the bill was, See how we have dished the Whigs. With respect to the bill he did not share in the apprehensions expressed by so many speakers, and, believing that the extension ...