... begin with the Reform Bill of 1832, and the essential weakness of Liberalism are distinctly traceable in the Whig party under Fox. In 1717, the Whigs had comfortably settled into office for years. Although the language of Hampden and Pym was ever in their ...

... slightest occasion to borrow from the Whigs, let us suppose, for argument's sake (and for that only, we beseech it to be understood) that Sir Robert were to submit measures resembling some which find favour with the Whig Ministry. It may be remarked on this ...

... on coming to the Crown at once got rid of the Whig Government of the moment, and proceeded to try and detach from the Whig party a number of groups of different views and to form out of the wavering Whigs' a separate and new party for himself, and they ...

... abortive. They have been obliged to seek the aid not only of the reelites, but even of the Radicals. They have given a Whig Premier, but not Whig Government; their apparent success is thus a partial failure. The administration they have formed is not likely ...

... carry both tbs seat* again; any rate one of them. 1357. Labouchere (Whig) .. .. .. Mills (Conservative).. .. .. .. 401 Campbell (Whig) 1359. Mills (Coniertative) .. 415 Labonober* (Whig).. .. .. 388 Bentinck (Conservative 325 (Radical) .. 1859. ...

... Burkes pamphlet, entitled Thoughts on the Causes of the Present Discontents, written under Whig inspiration, and often referred to as unexceptionable Whig authority—for Burke was then connected the Rockinghams and Portlands —was devoted to an exposure ...

... more to be desired, than those which have been wrung from the Whigs. -Mr. Cobden evidently does not trust the Whigs : he would rather see Peel in power than Lord John Russell. Still, the Whigs are resolved on outshining Sir Robert in bestowing praises ou ...

... now. lie willnot desert them. may be outvoted in Parliament a combination of inere Whigs and enraged Protectionists. He may be out of office for a time, and the Whigs may for a time possess the Government. But will they govern Is it possible, in these ...

... mind that the name had disappeared because the Whig 1800 was the Conservative of to-day. The actual line dividing Whig and Tory was very narrow one indeed The first William Pitt, the Earl Chatham, was a. Whig, and did not suppose there ever was finer or ...

... prominent Whig* were prosecuted on the evidence of perjured informers. and many of them suffered death. The Earl of Shaftesbury, the Whig leader, was accused of high treason, but was acquitted; in fact, Tory juries would convict Tory, and where the Whig* pr ...

... sleeping animals »o does the Whig occupant of Downing Street, who, however lean and cadaverous when he enters there, invariably leaves that blest retreat sleek, portly, and obese. The similarity between the dormouse and the Whig official is not, however, ...

... iuto Whigs and Tories, or Liberals and Conservatives, is out of date. There such thing the Liberal party; there may be two or three parties claiming to hold Liberal principles but'one great homogenous Liberal party there certainly not. The Whig often ...