... political cries which had done most to overthrow the Whig Government were Protection to Domestic Industry and 1 No Popery. The alliance with O'CONNELL and the sudden conversion of the leading Whigs to the principle of a fixed duty on corn were the great ...

... George is not quite the last of the hereditary Whigs before or behind the curtain. Natural causes at some time or other invite men who have worked hard all their lives in the public service, whether as Whig or Tory Ministers or as independent members, to ...

... should give way along with the superstructure which had been defended with such foolish obstinacy. The acces- sion of the Whigs to power was as the letting out of waters, and for some years it seemed as if there was no single institution which the Government ...

... the career of the first Reform Administration and that of Mr. GLADSTONE'S Ministry. But the falling away of support from the Whig leaders went on steadily until PEEL came into office with a great majority at his back; and there was not the slightest backflow ...

... Conservatism which differs very little from the Liberalism of many influential members of the Lower House who used to be called Whigs, and who are naturally growing more and more uneasy in the ranks of a leader who has declined from the heights of a thoughtful ...

... that its main objects were English and not India.GOG I.hdsceddi rcviviflg the Royal authority and in breaking the power of the Whig nobles chiefly, if not exclusively, by his employment of the enormous patronage still at the command of the Crown; and the ...

... So c. The death is announced of Mr. Charles Purton Cooper, Q.C., who once held a conspicuous position in the bar and in the Whig party. At Oxford he was a double first-class in the year in which Lord Westbury and the late Mr. Commis- sioner Fane each obtained ...

... constituency. In this reckoning we do not take into account Scotch constituencies like Aberdeenshire, or close boroughs subject to Whig patrons like Richmond, or Irish constituencies which have struck out away from both parties in pursuit of Home Rule. But in ...

... it is a question that touches the very existence of the Liberal party as a parlia- mentary organization. In i 868 the old Whigs, the moderate reformers of every shade, were weak; the Advanced Liberals of the manufacturing towns and of Scotland were ...

... of a more complicated kind. The issue will really be in substance what the Edinbiergh Review repre- sents, minus the words Whig and Tory, which it uses for old association's sake. The nation will have to decide whether it will be ruled by those who will ...

... very timid Conservative. How is it, then, that in England political economy has come to be looked upon as a Radical science? A Whig science it never was. Mr. Fox, by his own admission, could not understand a page of ADAM SMITH, whose disciple, PITT, anticipated ...

... with it a whole range of terrible associations. A party under the dominion of the terror which these excite acts as neither Whig nor Tory has here- tofore acted in England. At present, if the party in pover- with us feels itself losing popular credit, ...