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... PROPORTIOIV OF WHIG AND TORY PEERAGES. The charge which has been made against the Conservative govermnents of making an undue proportion of peers admits of a very decisive answer. Mr. Disraeli, Lord Derby, and Sir Robert Peel held power altogether for ...
... election. He agreed with Mr. Giffard 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 ...
... Caen, that-- • -- I As bees, when flowers are found, soon cease their bum, 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 ...
... replied, and was loudly cheered. He said that the Conservative party was the largest party in the House of Commons, for the Whigs and the Radicals Were two distinct parties, and cordially hated each other more than either of them hated the Conservatives ...
... slittll vacate their seats and iiivite their constituents to ratify the appointment. As a tolerably constant place-holder under Whig Governments, • and, we believe, a victim of the . present custom on at least one occasion, Lord BUIIY has, no doubt, very good ...
... plunder , 1 1 lay hands; and if restitution is in any form ti ° be the basis of Radical justice to Ireland, It is re great Whig families that must make good the of the ancient Church of the Irish people. h 0 have heard Liberals avow that the Church ...
... announced great measures of reform; and who is ! it that has scotched that deadly snake of corruption at elections? Is it a Whig or Radical Ministry ? To whom is the great reform due that has rendered purity of election possible? It is a Conservative Ministry ...
... It is touching to see the placing the approach to Brussels, through Lulea' of, Parliamentary omnipotence,cbut a recognition Whigs—if they can any longer lay claim to that burg, under French control ; that is, morallY by that supreme authority of a power ...
... the possession of office had been a bone of contention between the two sections into which the landed interest was divided— Whig and Tory; and, there was no use in mincing matters, neither of th ese p ar ti es h a d ever y e t b een a bl e t o rerun 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 ...
... MAJESTY'S Government has never once been mentioned in its councils. Mr. GLADSTONE knows he dare not moot it, and that if he did his Whig-Radical Cabinet would fall to pieces the very day he did so. So he parades the disingenuous plea of want of time. He will stick ...
... the Irish Church question, and a majority which represents nothing beyond disestablishment and disendowment. There are the Whigs and the Radicals, the place-hunting Liberals, and the advocates of Roman Catholicism and political Dissent—a phalanx of discordant ...