... groianlei for etrtertriuiiag Ithe convictioat i qLIeStiOn. Opplised by the Conservative phalantx 1ow io the Houre of Commonis, the Whig-Radical leaders, it is adifritied, are boaud fltio anti fot. For every evil frirposehey are utterly piwerless otid as c0l1 ...

... Government is essentially Whig, while the country is as essentially Democratic, t Y and the great cause of the rain of the party is the pro- i r- gress of free trade opinions. The greatest principle of I . cohesion among the Whigs was the principle of protec- ...

... up very much of rival Liberal candidates, and candidates l experimenting upon the new constituencies. la- dical is fighting Whig, and the extreme man at- - tempting to shove out the moderate, What are we to infer from such a state of things but divi- sions ...

... snethol will Lerd Lho,-e get ever the fact that Isis fabher Ahd hr, 'tboa Fe- present the great Whig house ef Argyll, which was Whig in the brave old days when Whig meant Radical, are cordial and even violent supporters of the party now installed in power ...

... the approach of et the Whig Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Radical ir ;, Tribune ; and Lord Palmerston had no sooner dis- T d appeared from the scene, than the necessity of Mr Bright's support to the very existence of the Whig - party made the union ...

... iled consfield than to go down to posterity, not only as the' E t so statesman who dished the Whigs by his Reform Bill, di iu0- but who has compelled the Whigs to extinguish them- fi me- selves'by making a common cause with the Conser- a' the vatives. The ...

... point to those stirring v l days and sleepless nights as giving the first indica-f tions of the approaching disruption of the Whig- nRadical combination. We do not say that the Minis. Ii nerial majority is sensibly diminished, or that a t at chalne of Government ...

... who to give way. They I ry are daily increasing. Mr J. S. Mill proposed to mode- N Ax- rate between Mr Bouverie, the doubtful Whig, and Mr t as Chadwick, the assured Radical. So in Nottingham, i ad so in London, so in Fifeshire, so in Leith, so in other ...

... Potter, How are the mighty fallen ! when ( such men as these take the place hitherto filled by the r great Whig nobles. The exhaustion of old Whig ideas T' makes it inevitable that the Opposition, if they are to t preserve any unity, or any organised form ...

... campaign, the new party, which was sneither Whig nor Tory, but a compound of both,, to began to dally with Reform. During the life of' LeLord Palmerston, who was one of the most dis- al tinguished of the Moderate Whigs who had e rallied round the banner of ...

... in the Repu6lican of October 8, 1819, issued by Richard Carlile the atheist; and in 1823 we find a skit at the Whig party beginning- Whigs whom Fox and Petty led, Whirs who under Lord Grey fled, Welcome, though three in a bed, To the Treasury 'In the ...

... enough to keep hold of the hopes of the extreme Liberals, without snapping the cords of the party allegiance of the moderate Whigs. He floats off with the rising tide of popular opinion; and this is called earnestness of purpose. Mr Gladstone's change of ...