... willing to accept facts patent to all. With a Whig ministry in office, it is hardly a likely that we should have had any offer of arbi- 3 tration on the claims of the American government, r because the Whig cabinet of the day felt that they r were blameless ...

... than the present. The political designations of former days had a good deal disappeared. Those old foes and opponents, the Whigs and Tories, the Radicals and Conservatives, the Protectionists and Free-traders, had all passed away-apparently at least. They ...

... gqge farbsyond argument,; it hag gone ml toa ethl 'be n~d 'the'6 r esistan i e' b f'thea 'To ries a or the tinkering of the Whigs. (Applause.) It is- a rinaestion' jwhih-.~he eopl~ ?? einseialves muist no~looiger- leave to peddling statesmen, but on -which ...

... given pledges to the Reform cause. There is no use blinking the truth, which has become apparent even to the leaders of the Whigs, that, until we have a great democratic change in our parliamen- tary representation, we can neither utilise, econo- mise, ...

... something of the same manner it opened, though probablv in each case the noble earl was in a false position.' He begun life as a Whig, though undoubtedly with high aristocratic and conservative tendencies; he ends his official existence as a Tory, but also ...