... either Whigs or Tories ever took up parliamentary reform as a question of principle. When the Whigs had got possession of the great borough interest the Tories were parliamentary reformers; when the borough interest passed to the Tories the Whigs were ...

... reform is to associate with the name Whig notions which only became connected with it a century later. This, as Professor Seeley truly says, is a fundamental point. If the modern Whigs are Reformers and the ancient Whigs are not, we may surely say that the ...

... The Whigs tried to carry a Peerage Bill, which would have turned the House of Lords into a close oligarchy, and the Tories prevented them. The Tories would have increased the number of county members, and the Whigs resisted the attempt. The Whigs invaded ...

... The Whigs tried to carry a Peerage Bill, which would have turned the House of Lords into a close oligarchy, and the Tories prevented them. The Tories would have increased the number of county members, and the W\higs resisted the attempt. The Whigs invaded ...

... the change would Stop. Are the Radicals or the Whigs the more likely of the two to be dis- appoinited? and which of them would be in the better position to make its disappointment transient ? If the Whigs found that the change did more th1an they expected ...

... finally exploded in the year I have already named with a shock that destroyed the Whig party. The reason is perfectly well known to all students of the period. The Whigs resolved to make all government impos- sible unless the King would place himself in ...

... of Canning with the Whigs; and it is- curious to find in a letter of Lord Palmerston to his brother, dated May 4,. 1827, a description of the behaviour of the Whigs differing very widely indeed from the account given of it by the Whig leaders themselves ...

... of the Whigs, he had a yet warmer admiration of their conduct during their forty years of opposition ? Is he really unaware that a suspicion of the same nature as that which attaches to the Radicals, but of older origin, once attached to the Whigs for their ...

... history to be an illusion. Without going the length of Lord Stanhope's assertion that the Whig of to-day answers to the Tory, and the Tory of to-day to the W-hig of Queen Anne's reign, Professor Seeley argues with much force that the mere possibility of ...

... Liberalism. As was pointed out the other day by a correspondent, the true Whig ecclesiastical policy was the discouragement of sacer- dotalism within the Church. This was the principle of Whig promotion to preferment in the last century and in this-of the elevation ...

... been expelled from office. It is amusing to recall that it was one of the fruits of the wisdom of our Whig ancestors. It was the favourite Whig or Liberal war, while Lord ELLENBOROUGH was a Conservative Governor-General acting very much in the present ...

... moderation of the so-called Moderate Liberal is a substance much more plastic to his hand than the latent ?? of the defunct Whig. To many of us it may seem strange that a party which has its counterpart in all self-governing communities, and whose existence ...