... his Cabinet would be his cold refusal to recognize the possibility of finding administrative talent outside the beaten way of Whig family friendship. The country will undoubtedly regard the promotion of this young politician as satisfac- tory in itself, ...

... palatable by a man who declared that the oniusprobaendi lay solely with the advocates of exclusion, and by a grotip of old Whigs who, if exclusion be not their principle, have no raison d gtre .1 t i the Paaca question, to be argued by a Minister who, ...

... without a policy on the laica, Irishl, and Church questions. It is waiting to feel the pulse of Pih-lianlent, prepared to be Whig or Radical as the strength may seem to incline ?? or Democratic fanaticism, ready to propose a Radical revolution if it seems ...

... Emperor approves of it or not. It is to be observed that all the members of the House of Commons who, without the advantages of Whig connection, have lately been offered office belong to that section which has strong and decided opinions, but which expresses ...

... because there is nothing left for them but to bluster. Yet although severe domestic discipline might be applied to the family of Whigs, one might, perhaps, have reckoned upon a different and more courteous bearing to the House of Commons. It is one thing to ...

... in declaring that his Reform Bill came down from heaven ready-sewn, in insisting that because Whigs and Radicals are equally Liberals, therefore every Whig is bound to suppress his convictions, whenever a Radical thinks their expression inconvenient. ...

... have by mutual under- standing and common consent shelved great plans of education and of sanitary rcform. which either the Whigs or the Tories would not for a moment have hesitated to propose had they been legislating and administering in the presence ...

... another set, or would have understood its objects without the greatest difficulty. It is impossible to say what side an English Whig or an Er glish Tory would naturally hav e taken in the quarrel between Louis XV. and the Parliament of Paris, which distracted ...

... back a pace or two into alignment with the Whigs. It is this percep- tion which has dictated Sir William Harcourt'sjudicious defence of Whiggisiln, and inspired his protest against the application of the word Whig as a title of opprobrium to those persons ...

... It has often been made a reproach to him that he exaggerated both vices and virtues alike, taking care, however, that the Whig dogs should this time have the best of it. To follow hial in each one of the minute likenesses he draws would task a man who ...

... Government was bent on crushing him, and that he provoked its action with the idea that if the Whig Ministry did not pack the jury, they, breaking through Whig maxims, would be defeated in their prosecution; and if they did pack, that the furious ...

... rottenness of the Whigs of tlc town wsho had stayed at home and voted neither for Mitchel nor M lci. 1le asked every man and woman in Nenagh to register a vow that they ixould never walk with, talk with, or bargain with the puling, cowardly Whigs who refused ...