... the same time he did enormous service to the to Conservative party. He was a link between the old-fashioned Tories and the Whigs. In the House of Commons, his sedate disposition and well-balanced character made him more useful than many another with more ...

... and for shorter Parliaments. Few electors are sufficient students of history to remember that the Septennial Act was simply a Whig device to secure the position of the Hanoverian dynasty and to prevent the 'danger of a Stuart restoration. The reason for ...

... Llberal party were ayreed in nothing but keeping in power. They bad to compromiee between Quakers who were maie of fight and Whigs of the school of Palaerenshn; between gentlemen like Mr Roby, who bad a quarrel with the House of Lords, and Lord Hartington ...

... Irish question, the right hon. gentleman said Mr Fox's definition of despotism photographed the state of Ireland, The great Whig leader sid Despotism was where the executive power was everything and the rights of the people nothing (applause). As to ...

... have lived for along life. 1 have heard men ealled y Conservatives or Torlie, and I have heard men-called- ; r Liberals or WhigS or Radioals, and I have heard mna. .Si called Repealer., and with these terms established a. o a politiocal urency we geton ...