... invention of the Whigs, under the direction of ail eminent Whig lawyer, now deceased, and who was latterly raised the bench ; and, second, that the most transparent cases of manufacturing votes by merely “nominal” qualifications have been Whig ones—we fancy ...

... gravest objection to the impending reconstruction of parties consists in its tendency to coincide with social divisions. The Whig aristocracy have conferred inestimable service on the country taking the lead in political movements which they had the will ...

... election of 1850 in converting the county of Berwick, which up to that time had been consistently Tory —having sent only one Whig to Parliament since thetirst Reform Bill--fromConservatism to Liberalism, being returned by a small majority over his opponent ...

... paper. The nearest approach one in the number should be, if judged from its title the elaborate article on Great Whig Journalist.” The “Great Whig Journalist is none other than Daniel Defoe, who at one part of his varied journalistic career edited the * m ...

... out of account that impulsiveness that led him, for example, to delight in Reform, because he believed it would “dish the Whigs.” But his impulses did not run counter to—they were in close alliance with, and the outcome of, an intellectual nature which ...

... that year alone. That the Scotch members would be the better of one like him among them, even many Whigs will not deny, and it would graceful in the Whig electors of the Clasgow and Aberdeen Universities not to contest the seat he has again allowed himself ...

... was not his abandonment of the Whigs because they carried out principles to which he had committed himself in the Irish Church Temporalities Act, a proof of similar inconsistency in his earlier career ? He did leave the Whigs when from curtailing the needless ...

... to take the vacant place as leader of the Conservative Whigs and of the Liberal Conservatives has not been wanting. By connection and training, Lord Clarendon is two parts Tory and one part Whig. Staunch to the Liberals on every question of national education ...

... dignity to hit hard the Conservative Chiefs, the general tenor of their recent policy, and to express a vain longing after a Whig alliance. The policy which has only been hinted at in Moya, is now elaborately maintained and justified in the politicalarticle ...

... position a committee of certain parties calling themselves the Liberal Committee, but whom everybody designated as the Tory and Whig combination. (Laughter, hiasea, and uproar.) He gave a narrative qf the interviews which had taken place between the Independent ...

... bone of contention between parties till 1838, when it was withdrawn by the Whigs. Meanwhile it had caused the secession of Lord Stanley and several other able men from the Whig ranks. Long before this happened, however—viz., in 1833—-Mr Stanley had succeeded ...

... exert themselves as there is every reason to expect they will. Politically, MrSmith is not apparently the very safest horse for Whig* to back. There is a drop or two of Conservative blood in his veins, and he not personally a very fiery adherent of the Gladstone ...