... Administration need not have so much to do with the peerage. It was also objected that the Government contained too many Whigs. The Whigs had a hereditary taste for office, If they had not a hereditary right to it. Those who look at the Treasury Benches next ...

... so many rare and strange things, has produced a Ministry exactly of the old Whig pattern-ùominated by the same old Whig principles- kept together by the same aristocratic Whig influences. There is actually lees .of the pure Radical element in the present ...

... A band played through the streets of the town several non-party airs, and Roman Catholics, as the report in the Northern Whig states, joined in the proceedings. ...

... Westminster—were able to creep into the House of Commons by the back door of a small nomination or pocket borough, of which a great Whig nobleman held the key. Mr. Gladstone's case is dif- ferent. He was chosen by a great Metropolitan constituency, by a town of ...

... they missed the first, the foremost, and the best man this coun- try had ever seen lead the Liberal party—the first man of the Whig aristocracy, and the first man of the old Liberal party. Mr. Osborne concluded a long and ableapeech by regretting that be ...

... members of the Cabinet there are six peers and the Marquis of Hartington. Lord Russell could not have been more exclusive, more Whig, and more aristocratic than Mr. Gladstone has shewn Mm- 5elf, or more contemptuous of the leaders of the people. The charge ...

... of new and decidedly Liberal blood into his Cabinet. But Brooks's Ciub- thf.t old rendezvous of C. J. Fox, Burke, and the Whigs of four the alarm, and told the Premier that if he formed his administration in this spirit there would be a split in the Liberal ...