... reaction which has taken place in the metropolitan districts. Mid-Surrey had been taken under the especial patronage of the Whigs. Lord Russell, who lives in the oivision, exerted all his influence in favour of the Radical candidates. Lord Amberley and ...

... with them. He was merciless on the professed reforming tendencies of Earl Russell, who cried for reform simply to keep the Whigs in office; he hit off Mr Gladstone’s faults as a political leader in a few happy and striking passages. His strongest and most ...

... curious exposure of the vanity of those political prophets with whom the wish is father to the thought. Three months ago the Whig journals were eagerly anticipating the utter collapse of the Conservative Ministry, because the great Tory chieftain was obliged ...

... any test of liberty. It was a mean skulking way of giving a vote, and did not conduce to liberty. It was all very well for Whigs who deal in skulking and dark intrigue to advocate it; but Tories, who acted openly in the light of day, did not want the ballot ...

... high position in the commercial world. It is a subject of legitimate pride to the Conservative party that they, unlike the Whigs, have ever been ready to recognise talent and ability, though unaccompanied by the accidents of noble birth and family connection ...

... interests of Hartlepool, because the founder and pioneer of existing commercial prosperity. It used to be a favourite theory with Whig politicians that he who made a blade of grass grow where none grew before was a benefactor to his country ; but Mr Jackson ...

... readers’ optics after a similar fashion, while the staid Sunday Observer, that has for many years been a recognised channel of Whig official communication, believes that no action will be taken on Mr Serjeant Armstrong s motion, which, in all probability ...

... admitted, and it stands reason, that as soon as the Whig Liberals have got the Catholics safe upon their side by establishing permanently hostile relations between the Catholics and the Conservative party, the Whig Liberals will have their old plea ready, can ...

... Mr I. L. Bell, who has undertaken to contribute £3,000 towards the expenses. Economy is not merely a favourite cry with the Whigs. Where their own pockets are concerned they are ever ready to practise what they preach, and Mr Bell’s chief recommendation ...

... appointed United States Minister to the Court of Austria. Little is known of him, except that he is a respectable Philadelphia Whig. THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS. Plymouth, July 28. —The Tasmania, with the West Indian, Pacific, Australian, and New Zealand mails, ...

... He supposed, in the same way, that Sir William Hutt was “a Whig of Whigs.” (Applause.) There were at present very few Radicals in the House of Commons ; while there were a great number of Whigs and moderate Liberals who were the same as Conservatives ; ...

... electors of North Devon on Friday last, allowance must be made for the circumstances in which an administration, whether it be Whig or Tory, is placed, and any investigation which is made of their policy should always have regard to these circumstances. Now ...