... who carried the first great Reform Bill and abolished slavery in the West Indies, he is entitled to share the honours of the Whig Administration. He was more conspicuous, as Secretary for Ireland, in his efforts to redress the anomalies of the Irish Church ...

... Parliament was as the member for Stockbridge, a close borough in Hampshire, | which he represented in the Whig interest. The Derby family was then Whig, and, in his earlier Parliamentary career, the young Mr Stanley was a consistent supporter of the family ...

... echoed from Edinburgh that the Whigs, who by abuse of trust have made a Secretaryship for Scotland probable, will think twice before giving the post to Mr Edward E. Baxter, the conceited prig who represents Montrose. What the Whigs call their natural instinct ...

... gotten noo To stand for Alma Mater Since James Moncreiff, our trotted chief, Moon noo perforce vacate her The Liberals true. Whigs and eew, Hang saritherin' Luis in doubt Ploy James and Stuart Mill To keep the Gordon out. At length it comes the Glasgow Dons ...

... doing they acted on the principle which un ‘ut the modern Conser- vatives have improved upon this notion. ‘* They selected the Whigs for their hostility, and the for their alliances,” In 1851 they abstained from support- ing Lord John against Locke King upon ...

... of the further reduction of the Irish Church. Still, it became more and more evident as time went on that the young Whig was a young Whig no longer: his opposition to his old comrades grew more and more habitual, until it settled into a principle, and in ...

... 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 ...

... the country would gainers. He recalls the circumstance of the long exclusion of the Whig party from office prior to the era of the Reform Bill. From 1784 1830 the Whig party were excluded from power; bnt, he admits, and he holds it up the Conserva- at ...

... ly ex|»ected The terms Whig and Tory but very inadequately express the distinction between the two classes, or itarties, into which men naturally range themselves, )M)liticaUy; for it is no unusual tiling find your nominal Whig at heart .is conservative ...

... settlementof Reform with any of the enthusiasm of the real re- former. He had become convinced, like most other men, both Whig and Tory, that the time had come when a settlement was necessary, and the circumstances of his party forced him to.undertake ...

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... The latter measure was jwissed after repeated and fruitless jiitempts on the j>art of both Whigs and Tories to settle the vexing question of Reform. The Whigs had long been so professedly desirous of passing a measure of Reform, but they had failed so ...