... violent disorder. By this - time the Whigs were in office, and twice carried ) the Reform Bill through the Commons, which was twice thrown out by the Lords, the Duke as usual being vehemently opposed to reform. The Whigs resigned on the King's refusal to ...

... cause. He carried the obnoxious duties the aid of the votes of his enemies, the Whigs (May 15, 1846) . He had carried his bill, but broken up his party; and the Whigs were now to have a fresh lease of office that lasted thirty years. Yes; by all means ...

... Division principally for his active cooperation in the 'ocal organisation, through the league of Young Liberals, of the BiderX., Whigs' Concert Party, of which be ' leader. .In, -P* a he lias taken active part in the Scout movement, and at present Group Scoutmaster ...

... under Sir Robert Peel in 1846. The previous December Peel had resigned, but the Whigs (otherwise the Liberals) refused to form Ministry. The real reason why the Whigs refused to form a Ministry was that they lacked nerve for the crisis. (British History ...

... The Whig wire-puller would thereupon try secretly to mouce ten or a dozen Tory voters either to split their votes between one of the Whig and one of the Tory candidates, or to plump for one of the Tories. Failing that he might send some the Whig supporters ...

... Republicanism! And 140 years later—A vote for Acland is a vote for Socialism! The effect of these Tory tactics on the Liberal or Whig party was exactly the same 1790 as it is to-day. In 1931 we had the financial crisis, and an appeal for a national front. In ...

... unexplored but thrilling future. I have come into the Liberal party because I have seen that our direct predecessors, the whigs and the roundheads, have always been on the side of the people whatever form the struggle has taken, while our opponents, the ...

... disheartened by its size when hd lerr.embered the facts of history, when he iememberd, for instance, for how many years thai whigs had been the wilderness, and then for little apparent reason bad swept into power, and had been able to carry the Reform Act ...

... divided into two political camps inhabited by antagonistic tribes, Whigs and Tories. You had to be one or the other, for no fancy breeds were tolerated. If you were a member of a Whig family, woe unto you if you wobbled from your allegiance to the orange ...

... there no reason whatever why a Conservative Government should not go on. But there wa> Parliament at that time a small band of Whigs, and there were throughout the country all manner of groups and organisations and societies, all working, more or less, towards ...

... failure (despite the gain of hundred seats) obtain the confidence the country, led to his resignation in *pril, Lord Melbourne's Whig ministry eturning to office. Viscount Ebrington a,l the Hon. N. Fellowes (both Liberals) re-elected unopposed for North and ...

... and Hancock; dips, fortunes and competitions, Misses Ley, Pooley, F. and P. Potter, and P. Dicker (the latter three in young whigs costumes), and Vinnicombe; pound, Mesdames Glover, Coutanch, -Trott, Puncher, and Bale; and men's stall, Messrs. Puncher, Bale ...