... ELECTION. MR. COBDEN AND WHIG FINANCE.-MR. GLADSTONE AND PROTESTANT ASCENDANCY. TO THE EDITOR. you allow me a few lines on the above subject ? In my address at Croydon last evening to the electors of East Surrey I prefaced my remarks on Whig economy by reading ...

... known among his contemporaries as an example of all that a bishop should be, and it is a fact that it was observed by a great Whig statesman, still living, that if they could always secure a Van Mildert there was no need for the interference of the Eccl ...

... were any corruption at all it was not the Tories who attempted to corrupt him or them, but it was, as he would show them, the Whig party (hear, hear). What did Mr. Gladstone's own government actually do is reference to the brid(re? They wrote a letter on ...

... Constitutional party, and retorted by saying that there were aliases enough on the other side ( c h eers ). 'Were they not Whigs, then Liberals, then Radicals, and he would add a fourth title, Destructives (cheers). We must have progress, but let it ...

... Northampton, not because of his infidel opinions, but because he was interfering with the chances of a couple of orthodox Whigs. Similar arguments were addressed to the working-class candidates for the Tower Hamlets, Lambeth, Aylesbury, Nottingham, and ...