... was possible. As soon, however, as he and Canning were removed, the Whig party came out in full force, and was quickly invested with the ascendancy of executive power. The Yorkshire election of 1807, with a majority of 187, was a prelude to all this; ...

... party founded in 1688—the constitutional Whigs of England. With these impressions in favour of Sir Robert Peel, of whom personally we know nothing, we have examined his conduct with deep interest, in order to discover whether what we regard as defects ...

... say, efficient, but I will say, not undistinguished service in the Whig ranks, my remaining in office produced such an outpouring of abuse as seldom proceeds from Whig tongues or Whig pens against any man. I am a little hard to be coaxed, and a little ...

... s, under the fostering care of William 111. and the Whig families who made him King of England. From that period to nearly the present date it has remained one of the great distinctions of the Whig school of politicians. The long reign of Toryism from ...

... on the official conduct of the whigs. Eight years ago how different were the feelings with which that party of splendid promises and sham performances were regarded. At the general election of 1841 both the whig candidates were returned by a majority ...

... test of this canon of criticism. It is not true, for instance, that the Whig majority pp 4sed the tariff. It is well known that more than thirty Whigs voted against the tariff—good Whigs, too, in other respects. Some of the other party voted in its favour; ...

... of 1848, Mr. Crittenden, with other leading Whigs of Kentucky and other states, became early committed to the support of General Taylor, and took measures to effect the nomination of the latter at the Whig National Convention. Mr. Clay having subsequently ...

... public opinion. The conduct of Lord John Russell and the Speaker more fully reveals to public view the interior condition of the Whig party—Lord Melbourne having partially indicated it by his declarations in the Corn-Law debate. The rash conduct of the Rad ...

... which is the result of cheapness. The Penny-Postage Act will for ever stand conspicuous as the most brilliant monument of Whig statesmanship. We will not now quarrel with that measure, because it was fixed at one instead of two pennies for each single ...

... who attacked Lord John Russell so vigorously in the debate on his resolution, stands an excellent chance of ousting the great Whig Leader. ...

... Joint-Stock advocates for their illiberality, they are held up even in Whig papers in evident contrast with their Tory predecessors. Whereas the matter has no more connexion with Whig or Tory principles—to adopt the party slang of other days—than it has ...

... entertained the thought that the rights of property would be endangered by the transfer of power from the Whig to the Tory, or from the Tory to the Whig section of party. This is a very satisfactory ground for confidence, and in times of peril it must prove ...