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[From The Atlas.l The scone now presented by the House of Commons curious. Whig Speaker has been elected ..

... [From The Atlas.l The scone now presented by the House of Commons curious. Whig Speaker has been elected without opposition, the Whig ministers take their seats nightly upon the Treasury benches, and the Tory members occupy the benches appropriate to ...

What lay behind the Monmouth Rebellion

... made, and he also kept close in touch with the Whigs England. Monmouth, however, showed a complete lack of political acumen. should bv now have known that he no longer had the support of the powerful Whigs. Instead, he allowed himself to be persuaded by ...

In a speech on the third reading of the Income Tax Mr. Hume took occasion to say— '• It was

... It was true that he had given vote of confidence to the Whigs, because they were not, his opinion, so bad the Tories; but now he he thought it would have been wise if they had turned out the Whigs three years ago. If he had known that the right hon. bironet ...

February Tory Government woiilj have effected the Mnnicipal Reform in England, or proposed the measure for ..

... through special instances, when the difference between Whigs and Tories is measured in the gross by the opposition of the House of Beers? Every bill flung out by fbe Lords shews the extent to which the Whigs are better than the Tories. Even with respect to ...

PRESENT POSITION OF PARTIES

... destiny the guidance of Sir R. Peel; and 225 are Whigs. the oiber side stand 229 Tories,'.': who have forsworn obedimce to their hitherto leader, and oppose the measure : s'.nd with them voted 11 Whigs, who are still »inwil!.»: ...

Ax article which appears in the E

... occupy. There can be doubt that the Whigs have joined themselves to the Judicata, and that the more they see their political friends the less they like them. The complaint which the Conservatives make against the Whigs, who are still a great party, is that ...

THE NEW MINISTRY— THE OXFORD ELECTION

... 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 ...

CONSTITUTIONAL PROGRESS

... 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 ...

CONTEMPORARY PRESS

... special the difference between Whigs and Toi in the gross by the opposition of Peers? Every bill flung out the flie extent to which tbe Whigs are fa Tories. Even with respect to questions of or ment it is not true that the Whigs Tories, much as have to conij ...

THE BOROUGH OF TAUNTON . [to tux Sib,—The TIMBS of to-day th* rutinsment of the last of the sitting Conservative

... 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. ...

MEADE KING

... 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 ...