... day if she should be advised to abandon the principles which have made this country so great. He was not in this talking of Whigs or Tories: indeed ho was such a Tory of the old school that he looked down upon modern Conservatives. He was therefore no party ...

... representatires who were not opposed to Mayne k, the result of which was that almost every candidate who came forward, whether Whig:They, or liadieal, declarhl that at heart hr had always been opposed to the Grant, and was ready to pledge himself against ...

... progress, and throw their arms away when victory is in their grasp, they must be prepared for the ridicule and contempt of Whigs and Tories alike in every part of the kingdom. There is still time to repair the evil. Let our friends see that it is not wasted ...

... of the Crimean war, and it was a good job the Conservatives got into office. (A voice: Who built the wooden ships r) The Whigs built the wooden ships before the iron ships were invented. (Laughter.) The New Zealand loan and the loan to Ireland were the ...

... a very extensive measure of Reform. (Hear, hear.) Having accomplished that they thought they had, it was said, dished the Whigs. (Laughter.) They thought they had fairly taken the wind out of the nails of the Liberals, and that for the future it would ...

... the day for elect. ing two members for Stroud was at hand, he would have every voter in the Sled Chapel congregation, whether Whig or Tory, vote his conscience might dictate, steadily refusing to be persuaded in any other way, the franchise being a religious ...

... members in the House of Commons It would be that his first impression was that they as Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. (Cheers.) The Whig had discovered their church to be false, and was teach- and Liberal party, who would probably soon be in ing pernicious and ...

... be attempted to do so, but there was very much doubt whether it would succeed. One of two things would happen : either the Whigs—as they had done before when their cry had served their turn to get into office —would quietly shelve the cry, and the matter ...

... Tory turn. But then, as in many other cases, adversity makes strange bed-fellows. While Lord Macaulay has well said that Whigs and Tories have each their proper part to play in the matter of keeping the State together and in working order, I commend ...

... because the old Whigs achieved a great and a glorious work a generation ago, that there remains a like work to be done now. Perfection is unattainable in the present world. And it appears to me to be by no means uncomplimentary to the old Whigs, whom Mr. Marling ...

... Thus, Lord Macaulay has truly said: If, rejecting all that merely accidental, we look at the essential characteristics of the Whig and Tory, we may consider each of them as the representative of a great principle, essential to the welfare of nations. One ...

... obedience to the Crown; he said instinct, anti he thought it was well for them that such an instinct was among all of them—Whigs and Tories, Conservatives and Radicals. It was their happy lot to live under a monarch who was distinguished for her constitutional ...