... national progress, great L:b-rai party had also been formed in the reign of the same monarch, Charles I., and they were called Whigs, but they had ever since been .he party who had piomoted and supported pi ogress and freedom. He passed 011 to the s ate of ...

... Acts, 13th and 14th Vict. c. 54, 18.,0. Lord Ashley. To render more strin- gent the provisions of the last act. Sir G. Grey (Whig Home Secretary) insisted on a clause increasing the weekly toil of women and children by 2b hours. In spite of this concession ...