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... followed, people were very much afraid of abolishing the ratepaying clauses of the vote. There was filen great trouble I from the Whig party ; but after the tin law measures were passed, public opinion rapidly developed. Still, when Lord John Russell and Mr ...
... off of his brother from what, after all, was the merely accidental and incidental Toryism of a single generation in a great Whig house. But this apostasy or perversion, as indignant Conservatives think it, has made Colonel Stanlty's political fortune. ...
... to dispute that the restoration of a king to the throne was service which should go unrewarded. (Laughter). But even an old Whig might fairly fancy that £5OO a year for ever was rather a hea , y price for bringing back a family which subsequently it cost ...
... years and to an honourable name, but when Lord Grey set himself to denounce the incapacity of Mr. Gladstone and invited the Whig party to decline to follow him, he thought they were entitled and me spelled to ask by wht right Lord Grey used such language ...
... neglected ; and the liberal programme of legislation wnich Mr. ROWLAND- I SON favoured, very probably offended many' weak-kneed Whig landlords. Taking all these circumstances into consideration, we may fairly claim that the issue of the contestis by no means ...
... should exist some moderating influence which we may describe as a party. True, that in the eyes of mediocrities of the old Whig type the party is everything, and its chief is merely nominal. He is selected from one of the old Revolution families, a CAVENDISH ...
... defeat upon the Government, and bring about a Ministerial crisis. The Times trimmed its sails and went over to the Opposition ; Whig peers expressed objections to the proposal ; and among several of the usual supporters of the Ministry there were manifestations ...
... power was on th e Opposition side of the House, and Lord DoNoUGHMORE carried his resolution b y to 53. Something like a dozen Whigs vot with the majority, including Lord BauoexxF, but Lord POLTIMORE cannot certainly be properly classed, as he is by the Nil ...
... candidate, Mr. Corbett, accompanied by his wife, has been actively canvassing, and has received many promises of support from the Whigs and moderate Liberals. A section of the Nonconformists make no secret of the fact that they will either abstain from voting ...
... saying that pressed men never fight, and there are not a few pressed Liberals in the Liberal camp. We do not now speak of the Whigs of the type of the Duke of SUTHERLAND and Lord BRABOURNE. They are men respectable in their way, but wholly unable from co ...
... and, next to the PREMIER, is perhaps the most influential member of the Cabinet. But the HARTINGTON of romance is a mutinous Whig magnate, who would side with the Duke of ARGYLL or the MARQUIS of LANSDOWNE, but for ulterior reasons, and the prize of the ...
... MARCH 21, 1882. He regretted that the Whigs, who formerly worked as Liberals, had since allowed their feelings in favour of privelege to carry them unpleasantly near the Tories, and he could not help connecting both Whigs and Tories with that word privelege ...