... Secretary for Ireland from 1830 till Mearch, 1833; Sec- retary of State for the Colonies from then until July, 1834, when the Whig Appropria- tion Bill, for confiscating- the property of the Church of Ireland, drove him, along with Sir JAMES GRAHA31, the ...

... George Grey at the Home Office, and Lord Rus- sell, if not in the Foreign Office, yet over it. Mr. Bright himself owns that a Whig Ministry, such as would probably come into power now, would not at all suit him, and that it would, as he puts it, want constantly ...

... seemed to regular politicians ludicrous, to the electors disagreeable, and to the body of the nation a mece dreal:n, Outside the Whig circle the strongest Liberals, wi ile the possible or partial exception of Mr. Cobden, were held to be excluded fromn high ...

... constituency to be conciliated, no Liberal Member will venture to alienate finally so large a body of his supporters. The oldest Whig, owner of half a county, and sitting at present for his own property, will still be disinclined to reject the help of the strongest ...

... considerations of family convenience. Country gentlemen have a pious horror of costly electoral contests. The conflicts between Whig and Tory magnates end as soon as possible in convenient compromises. Con- servative squires cannot afford to bleed every three ...

... national expenditure, Mr. DIsR.LEmI clearly shows that what is called Tory extravagance is really a national pay- ment for Whig neglect. The present Ministers found the British navy in a state which occasioned serious anxiety; the fortresses were without ...

... can suppose that they are the result of calm reason. A few words will sum up the origin of the resolutions. lst. The great Whig party cannot long exist out of office, as the distribu- tion of the sweets is the source of their power. 2nd. The great Liberal ...

... votes, not merely of the Sledmere tenantry and of a large body of Conservatives who honour the name he bears, but of the great Whig interest in the Riding. He has received assurances of support from great landowners like Lord LONDESBOROUGH, Lord DowNE, and ...

... political sympathy, and characterised by vi-orous thought. Our doors are open to Liberals of every shade, from the hesitating Whig who dreads household suffrage and recoils from the ballot, to the Radical Boanerges who gesticulates wildly for manhood suffrage ...

... remind you that I am a senior magistrate to yourself in the Riding. I will only say that everybody to whom Ihave spoken, whether Whig or Tory, has condemned your conduct ?? reference to myself. It wag, to say the least, uncalled for and unbecoming in a retiring ...

... events that had transpired in the country since the conclu- sdon of the French war in 1815. He spoke of the con- 1 duct of the Whigs and Tories with respect to the trial of Qseen Caroline, and with respect to the Corn-laws, Teat Acts, and the Roman Catholic ...

... reminds me that I e haven't spoken of the Irish Church: I am strongly opposed to it, and shall support the scheme of r the Whig leaders in both Houses. Not that I know what that scheme is, but it's no matter: I'm a churchwarden, and that's enough. Yes ...