... 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 ...