... Lord Palmerston, not so much, perhaps, because that Liberal chief was decidedly worldly, or because he was a safe and moderate Whig ; while in Lord Palmerston's very unworldly but Radical successor his faith is so weak that he has been known on more than ...

... Lowe's future Premier and chief, of cheering a rhetorician who was sitting for a Whig family borough, and giving utterance (in the disguise of a converted Radical) to an old Whig's timorous disgust at a threatened disturbance of the final settlement of ...

... Algernon West having been comfortably disposed of somewhere in the spacious and leisurely seclusion of Somerset House, a young Whig nobleman who derives his Liberal principles by hereditary transmission, and would probably be an advanced Radical for some ...

... pointed out that the arbitrators had saved the Ministry. Yes, he said, the exclusion of the Indirect Claims has saved les Whigs. He then asked if the Ministry was popular. I explained that I was a Tory, and, of course, from my point of view it was not ...

... the polities! parties in England, M. Thiers observed, The Whigs, you knew, have done me an ill turn, adding an expression of his belief that the Tories are more friendly to him than the Whigs. Of course I bowed my acknowledgments of this compliment to ...

... that I am endeavouring to raise you a little above the position you now occupy. But a Whig politician, and especially a Whig Speaker, who hopes some day to be a Whig peer, cannot perhaps wholly forget himself or the station assigned him in society. A ...

... De structives ; and if the Whigs belong to the former, as Mr. Chambers says they do, why don't they say so like men, and act accordingly ? Why not, indeed ? We are afraid the answer must be uncomplimentary. The Whigs are incapable of real progress ...

... expected to descend on the intriguers in showers. Your Whig contemporary, it is understood, is willing to swallow his antipathy to the Senior Member, in order to serve the interest or necessities of the Whig leader. In a word, there appears to be a wonderful ...

... than for agricultural purposes P If Mr. Thorold Rogers thinks so he must not reserve his maledictions for the Tories, for Whigs and Liberals, manufacturers and merchants, sin equally with those whom he stigmatises as the party of protection. He must look ...

... woo did not feel the pressure of the injustice of the present mode of local taxation. It was a measure which no Government—Whig, Tory. or Radical—had yet ventured to grapple with; but in the last session of Parliamentthe Independents of the House of ...

... who lend themselves with equal favour to the succeeding appetites of changing Ministries, whether Liberal or Conservative, Whig or Tory. Swimming around and under the great wooden walls of the old battle ships that lie moored in the river, and within ...

... political party as to a threevolume novelist. What a happy thought it was, for instance, that occurred to bins who first tilled the Whig-Radical party the liberal party. Nothing in their character or principles entitled them to the appellation. Still they boldly ...