... with the Reform Bill of 1832, and the essential weaknesses of Liberalism are distinctly traceable in the Whig party under Fox. In 1717, tbe Whigs had comfortably settled into office for 25 years. Although the language of Hampden and Pym was ever in their ...

... eoalitioas between Whigs and Protectionists was forming in his ingenious Tprnd However, the Bill passed its second reading by a majority of 88. Then occurred a mart remarkable series of man ae uvres. The O'Conne Uite s, with many Whigs and m few Protectionists ...

... said that when in 1858 tbere was a great defection of Radicals on the Con- spiracy BiU, and in 1866 a great defection of Whigs on the Reform BiU, from the day the catastrophe hap- pened matters began to mend for the Liberal party, the reason of which ...

... the Conservative party was never co strong aa in the summer of 1845. Their majority was triumphant and overwhelming ; the Whigs were so feeble that they scarcely deserved to be called an Opposition, and the Ministers were, in oratorical power and adm ...

... COMPOSITION OF H— CABINET. On the assembling of the new Parliament, a vote of want of confidence in the already discredited Whig Ministry was carried in both Houses, and Sir Robert Peel was called upon to form a Cabinet. Lord Lynd- hurst, then at the zenith ...

... employed there, whether they were occupiers of land or workers of the soil, whether they were Conservatives or Liberals, Whigs or Tories, Constitutional or Radical. It was for that reason he came to the Chamber, becaust- he firmly believed that all chambers ...

... hover, takes him to task very sharply in its new number. His conception ot his relations to the Liberal party, says the great Whig organ, betrays a profound moral obliquity. That party, according to tho same indisputable authority, is divided both in ...

... during recent times. Mr. Caleraft was to be paid £2,000 by Sir Samuel, and £1,000 out ot a fund started by the heads of the Whig Party to answer extraordinary occa- sions. What appears objectionable to our ancestors becomes our common practice, and vice ...

... Parliamentary Hand very skilfully threw his net wide enough to catch political fishes of every shade of Liberalism from moderate Whigs to the most pronounced of advanced Radicals ; from the earnest politic- Dissenter down to the most thoroughgoing fol- lower ...

... He thought, with the Duke of Wel- lington, that a Government so admirable ought not to be altered. Palmerston joined the Whigs because he was disgusted at the treatment that Canning received from Peel and Wellington. He continued, to the day of bis death ...

... Gladstone's power was at ita high- est pitch. He had gone far enough to secure Radical support, and he bad not yet alienated the Whigs. Lord RuaseU, in his RecoUections, apologises for the confidence which the veteran Liberals at this time reposed in Mr. Gladstone ...

... curbing the impatience of their followers. With the Russell Government began the internecine conflict between the official Whigs and the Radicals below the gangway. Lord John Russell had few principles in common with a Hume, a Cobden, or a Bright. In 1848 ...