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THE TWO PARTIES

... 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 ...

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 ...

TAUNTON BOROUGH ELECTIONS

... TAUNTON BOROUGH ELECTIONS. have heard it stated by a member of the Whig party that this town has for ma.iy years past been a thoroughly Liberal borough, and, as we doubted this statement, have turned to the pages of history, and by enquiry have sought ...

CHARGES OF DECEPTION AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT

... vehemence of party feeling, they supposed that the successful opponents of the Whigs would ran into the opposite extreme from that into which, by stress of circumstances, the Whigs were driven. After struggling against the ultra principles of their own party ...

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS

... SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. A WHIG-TORY CABINET. (From the Spectator.') Mr. Harvey rccommends an open coalition of Whigs and Tories—the moderate men of both parties being selected for the experiment. An Administration composed would, he thinks, be efficient ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1839
Newspaper: Somerset County Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 391 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE QUEEN

... peer ; and fi ' Barrington, Tory M. P., wife of whig peer. or '^ Marchioness of Breadalbane, sister-in-law of the of Buckingham, Tory peer, and of Mr. Scott TV*. didate for Roxburghshire, wife of a Whig peer.' Ca Marchioness of Tavistock, sister of Lord ...

Election Intelligence

... moment his principles had given way, and he had voted 1 for the Whig candidate (cheers and laughter). If a Whig now attempted to represent he mu3t bribe heavily (a laugh). If the Whigs would ouly let the borough alone, there would be no bribery (hear ...

THE BEER BILL

... inflicted on society, and he has. too much conscience to defend it. It is melancholy to reflect that our modern States-men, both Whig and Tory, are so apt to introduce measures as the perfection of wisdom, which the better experience of a few years obliges ...

ANOTHER SECESSION FROM THE RADICAL PARTY

... foxhounds iu the North Ridint? of Yorkshire, whose name was well kno and who was a prominent supporter the old Whig families. He asked what the Whigs had done that they should be ignored by the Liberals, and remarked that the sooner the Radicals were iguored ...

... I jmon jealousy should nlso he exerted at the present r?h«ause is well known that the Wtllinuton Cohinet is

... transpired through the medium of , p ir liainenlary proceedings last week—the organi/.ntion regular opposition on the part the Whigs Wellington A Iministration. W\s understand that meeting washeld at Dansl..wnc House onWedn’esday last, at which the foreign ...

[From Tug Atlas—Saodsy, May 20.]

... Duke. Thus the matter ended ia the open defeat the Torie’, and the glorious, because unsought, victory of the Whigs. Never before were the Whigs, as party, so completely triumphant. The Tories have done that fur them which they could not do have done for ...

®l)e Taunton Courier

... and danger. Witness how characteristically Lord John has'conducted himself during the late Whig onslaught upon the Deiuiy Government. I'inding that the Whigs no longer hold dominion over the greater portion of the Liberal party, and that they are degraded ...