... PROPORTION OF WHIG AND TORY PEERAGES. The charge which has been made against the Con- sorvativo governments of making an undne pro- portion of peers admits of a very decisive answer. Mr. Disraeli, Lord Derby, and Sir Robert Poel hold power altogether ...

... THOFORTIOS OF WHIG AND TOBY TKRRAdES. i The charge which has been made against the Con- sorvative governments of making an undue proportion poors admits very decisive answer. Mr. Disraeli, Lord Derby, and Sir Robert Peel hold power altogether for nine ...

... the Irish Church question, and amajority which represents nothing beyond dis- establishment and discndowment. There are the Whigs and the Radicals, the place-hunting Libe- rals, and the advocates of Roman Catholicism and political Dissent—a phalanx of ...

... a v. v. _x . . . , As bees wtien liowers are found, soon cease their hum, So, settling upon places, Whigs are dumb. (a laugh.) The profess.ons of Whigs in opposition were invariably followed by the most conspicuous failure when they acceded to office ...

... shall vaeate their seats and invite their constituents to ratify the ap- pointment. As a tolerably constant place-holder under Whig Governments, and, we believe, a victim of the present custom on at least one occa- sion, Lord Bury has, no doubt, very good ...

... watchfulness. The friends of middle couret’* knew full well that the? have many unavowed weli-wrahers. They hope that 150 Whigs will be joined bv 150 Tories, and that so a compromise may be effected. Let all honest men, throughout the country, keep their ...

... announced great measures of reform ; and who is it that has scotched that deadly snake of corruption at elec- tions ? Is it a Whig or Radical Ministry ? To whom is the great reform due that has rendered purity of election pos- sible? It is a Conservative ...

... election. He agreed with Mr. Gilford that even at election times the business of life must go on, and there was no reason why Whig or Tory should not employ a man of his own colour to do his work, provided it was not done on condition of obtaining the vote ...

... plunder is in lay hauds ; and if restitution is in any form tobe the basis of Radical justice to Ireland, it is the great Whig families that must make good the losses of the ancient Church of the Irish peoplo. Wo havo heard Liberals avow that the ...

... lamentably deficient towards their party (hear, hear). In [Lancashire they heard of no meetings to celebrate the triumphs of the Whig Radicals (cheers) ; and neither had those gentlemen any reason to congratulate themselves on the result of the elections for ...

... pos- session of office had been a bone of contention between the two sections into which the landed interest waa divided — Whig and Tory; and, there was no use in mincing matters, neither of these parties had ever yet been able to re- tain the government ...

... and every phase of feeling upon the subject, from the most rabid Radical, whe would rasb into revolution, to the moderate Whig of the old school, who is already begin- ning to repent in sackcloth and im ashes for the part which he bas taken (laughter) ...