... supposed that Ministers would be appalled by the threatened onslaught, and retire from the conflict at the very first rebuff. Whigs, Liberals and Radicals, split asunder as they have been, and will be again, by irreconcilable differences, coalesced at the ...

... parallel is close and obvious. £ Dumont, the friend of Mirabeau, of tham, Romilly, Lord Grey, Lord Lansdowne, *»' • the leading Whigs of that day, himself having at Paris, and present in the National Assemoh tit the time of that celebrated debate, always ay ...

... imagines that that bright millennium hasyet arrived. When the heat of this gratuitous conflict is over, we are mistaken if the Whig leader of the House of Commons does not find it hard to justify himself for this sad and mischievous trifling with Parliament ...

... fact unheard and without precedent —the Liberal Opposition dwindled down so as to count in 1799 but members. . . . Tories and Whigs, Conservatives or Progressists, all cherish the same respect for the law and for liberty ; all have the same love for England ...

... to be entirely changed in character, was necessary to discover an object which would interest at the same time the moderate Whig and the thoroughgoing Radical. The sudden prominence of Irish question?, consequence of the Fenian conspiracy, has, at the ...

... that flogging in the British army in times of peace is finally abolished. It has been the custom of the Government, whether Whig or Tory, to support the flogging clause in the Mutiny Act, in deference to the urgent solicitations of the military authorities ...