... as a united and active party, and occasionally achieve great political work, in spite of the prophecies and the labours the Whig-Radicals, and those beneath them in the political strata. Months ago we suggested that those among the working classes who ...

... wisdom the Reform policy of Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli. man in his senses can doubt that, in spite of Tory resistance, the Whigs would have ultimately succeeded in passing their £7, £6, or £5. franchise Bill, and that in that event the Conservative party ...

... party more than another which prevented others from obtaining the same equality as themselves, it was the Whig party. Let them meet with a Whig who happened to be rich, especially if bo was rich in land, and see if he would very readily allow those who ...

... necessity for the ballot, and have induced Mr. Gladstone to propose what we were almost certain he would not resist. The old Whig members are now told that they must accommodate their pace and principles to the views of the Ballot Society, or else they ...

... than his colleagues that our masters,” now they do possess the franchise, must be allowed to exercise it unfettered. The pure Whig element of the Cabinet may be difficult perhaps to thoroughly convert, but they will be scarcely able to resist the influence ...

... Ballot is looked upon as a great blessing in Australia, and, curious enough, this is, perhaps, the only subject as to which Whigs, Tories, and Radicals are all agreed and at one. The Ballot is appreciated by all parties, and loved as a certain means of ...

... .Mr. A. Pell for South Leicestershire, the latter gentleman made some excellent remarks upon the manner in which the big Whig, as a mere talker, dealt with the difficult problem—How to educate. Mr. Pell asked what the Liberals had done in Leicester ...

... previously erroneously announced. The contest between Colonel Wilmot, V.C., the Conservative candidate, and Mr. Evans, who was the Whig-Radical member the last parliament, and defeated the late lamented Sir Thomas Gresley November last. There are seventeen r ...

... attained his fiftieth year. He was a man of great ability, dauntless courage, and marvellous foresight and resource. The Northern Whig, in noticing the unostentatious manner in which Earl Spencer was sworn in as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, expresses its firm ...

... and all shades opinion from the greatest democrat to the greatest constitutmnahst do not ask man out bunting whether he is Whig whether a Tory -whether he is for the disestablishment of the Irish Church or whether he is for the repeal the Malt Tax; all ...

... Radical, or anything but Liberal (cheers). Well they talked for years and years about lowering the franchise, and whenever the Whigs came into power they always found that Reform Bill after Reform Bill for lowering the qualification for votes was brought in ...

... had returned against measure majority numbers, aud vast majority in population. But that was not all. England they knew the Whig party had been weakened by the proposition which had been made. From the Duke of Portland downwards, nobleman after nobleman ...