... millions of money, and they finished off with a deficit for the year of two millions. (A voice: What, the Tories?) No, the Whigs. (Laughter, and a voice: Tell us what the Tories did last year.) I shall tell you that presently. ( We do know, man.) The ...

... heard—(hear, hear, and noise)—every man who has a speech to make on this occasion, whatever his opinions may be, whether he is Whig, adical, Tory or Conservative. ( You are a renegade.) Therefore I ask you, as Englishmen, to listen. (Hear, hear, and cheers ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...