... meeting of close upon 2000 miners was held in a field nearHoughton-le-Spnng, Durham, to consider the Tory practices of our Whig- Liberal-Radical Government. O’Flanaghau presided, and the following resolutions were unanimously passed:—(l). “That we, the ...

... Parliament; but we saw the sting, we recogtiised the venom of the man in the conclusion of his speech, when he declared that the Whig Administration would restore Ireland to a state of Christianity and civilisation. (Groans.) It comes well from the defeated ...

... country will see that their motive was a desire to help the present cowardly, hypocritical, priest-hunting, buckshot-distributing Whig Government, now ever a race bloody and brutal.” (Laughter.) Ho apprehended that there never was letter of a mere atrocious ...

... support o the Laud League rather than the Whig Govern- d ment of the country; because they had done l. their best to rescue the sufferidg farmers from e Le oppressive landlords. These were the reasons why c l- the Whig Goverument-Gladstone, Forster, and Har- ...

... and well-defined convictions to which the Whig Government was hostile. The confidence transferred from the Tories to the Whigs in 1831 in the interests of parliamentary reform was retrausferred from the Whigs to the Tories ten year 3 afterwards on financial ...

... was paralysed. The Duke of WeUington and Sir Robert Peel could not form a Government without the risk of revolution, and the Whigs refused to carry on the government without permission to create as many peers as they thought necessary to accomplish their ...

... :with Athe billas it passed out of the hands of the Commonm. The Government majoritieswere well sustained through- out, the Whigs having apparently repented of tbe evil of their ways. ...

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... election. The working men knew him. Hitherto they had formed their notions an aristocrat from the samples of gentility which the Whig families constantly produced. Those brilliant specimens of the human race belonged to the old families ” of the town families ...

... hence Mr Gladstone’s appointment of his son, John McLaren, to the office of Lord Advocate, to the great disgust of the Scotch Whigs in general and of those of Edinburgh in particular. McLaren pire, being eighty, might have retired with a good grace at the ...

... the victors surveyed the thin ranks the dejected Opposition a sense of Virtue triumphant overcame them. Each Liberal, each Whig, each Radical, each Home Ruler, each Parncllitc, and solitary Mr Bradlaugh under the clock, burned with high hopes. For this ...

... the bad trade which had followed bad harvests. Tory as he was to the backbone, he would have rejoiced in the accession of a Whig Government if it could have brought us a succession of good harvests—an opinion with which most Yorkshiremen would agree, for ...