... wealthy Peer, and he ventured into political life with a feeling of real enjoyment. His hereditary connexion was with the Whigs, and with them he entered office as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1830, and bore a chief part in the events of that stormy ...

... under the cry of Reform. Where are now these plain spoken truths, which rallied around him Conservatives and traditional Whigs in the hour of his distress? They have all vanished under the wand of the dreaded necromancer, Mr. Dickinson ! Since that time ...

... party in politics and the commercial clogs with the Whigs. The reverse is nearer the truth. The government during the reigns of the tint two Georges was almost entirely in the hands of the great Whig landed aristocracy. The Tory party, which had been loot ...

... creed more than we are aware of : rejecting all that is merely accidental, we look at the essential characteristics of the Whig and the Tory, we may consider each of them as the representative a great principle, essential to the welfare of nations. One ...

... proved that it was cheaper under the Tories than under the Whigs. (A voice : That won't go down.) He was not going, like Mr. Peter Wood, to claim the credit for the Tories, for neither Tories nor Whigs had anything to do with the price of bread, but it was ...

... from the tirst Naomi Rill. They succeeded to the inheritance of the old Whigs, who in their tittle did good yo,inat,' , It/ 'liter• are i n di v id ua l whi g • l e ft nn, but the Whigs a. , a party are .lead Nil young snorting ill public life. net candidate ...

... 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 ...

... In November 1834 Sir Robert Peel summed the reins of government, and Lord Brougham resigned office with his colleagues. The Whig Ministry of Lord Melbourne, however, returned to power in the following April, but Lord Brougham was not reappointed to the ...

... 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 ...

... Republic. To-day the ruling power was with the whole people. Yesterday it had been with a bundle of reigning families, called Whigs and Tories—one set always in and the other out, and both always combined to keep the people out. (Applause.) Yesterday England ...

... pioneers of the great cause, Cobden, Bright, Villiers, Thompson and others, gradually converted public opinion, and brought the Whig party to their side—that Sir R. Peel at first staunchly opposed the new doctrine, but at length deserted the bulk of his party ...

... As to politics, he (Mr. Baker) was not a very great politician. He was a Conservative, as many of them knew. He had been a Whig, but he turned over to the Conservative side because he had a sort of oldfashioned notion that, though there was great good ...