... Tory turn. But then, as in many other cases, adversity makes strange bed-fellows. While Lord Macaulay has well said that Whigs and Tories have each their proper part to play in the matter of keeping the State together and in working order, I commend ...

... because the old Whigs achieved a great and a glorious work a generation ago, that there remains a like work to be done now. Perfection is unattainable in the present world. And it appears to me to be by no means uncomplimentary to the old Whigs, whom Mr. Marling ...

... be attempted to do so, but there was very much doubt whether it would succeed. One of two things would happen : either the Whigs—as they had done before when their cry had served their turn to get into office —would quietly shelve the cry, and the matter ...

... the day for elect. ing two members for Stroud was at hand, he would have every voter in the Sled Chapel congregation, whether Whig or Tory, vote his conscience might dictate, steadily refusing to be persuaded in any other way, the franchise being a religious ...

... members in the House of Commons It would be that his first impression was that they as Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. (Cheers.) The Whig had discovered their church to be false, and was teach- and Liberal party, who would probably soon be in ing pernicious and ...

... a very extensive measure of Reform. (Hear, hear.) Having accomplished that they thought they had, it was said, dished the Whigs. (Laughter.) They thought they had fairly taken the wind out of the nails of the Liberals, and that for the future it would ...