... mere tu guogue argument between Whig and Tory. There bad been a long debate about Ireland —its two millions and a half of paupers, pouring their superfluity into Britain, and adding to the pauperism of England and Scotland, aggiavating the general misery ...

... grant; but the Conservatives, who succeeded in turning out the Whigs on the ground of their alliance to Popery, have done more to maintain and uphold that fatally pernicious system, than the Whigs could have effected in as many generations. ~ The mistake is ...

... recollected that, some years since, Pert was not Premier. At that time, the ‘Whigs were in power, and, thercfore, the Protestant Operative Associations were in activity. The Whigs are now in a state of decadence, and, therefore, the associations are quiescent ...

... if not on Parliament. The downfall of the Whigs may be traced to two or three causes that bave operated together for their destruction. First, there is undoubtedly the opposition of many members in the old Whig aristocracy to the sweeping changes to which ...

... Scotland mere Whig and Tory are iames of no strength whatever, They are worn-out distinctions —badges so blanched in colour, and so dimmed in the legends which they bear, that we can no longer decipher their meaning : we cannot say whe. ther a Whig, as such ...

... the Whigs displayed better oratory. The partizans of Mr. Polk fully succeeded in persuading the manuafacturers of Pennsylvania that he was a sufficiently staunch prohibitionist. In New York, on the contrary, where lay the true strength of the Whigs, we ...

... the Whig or high tariff party, which is something of a set-off against the Maine election, which had been won by the Democrats, who are now free traders. At Boston, Mr. Webster had delivered an eloguent speech in favor of Mr. Clay and American Whig principles ...

... af the session. To those who are in our position—those who laboured for a free ®rade in corn when the Whigs deemed the doctrine heretical, and the Whig Premier declared the men who sought its realization—this adherence to the principle must be gratifying ...

... Melbourne (Whig) ‘ and Sir Robert Peel (Tory) held office alternately between 1836 and 1841. Then came Lord John Russell, one of the Liberal architects of the 1832 Reform Act, and in 1855 Palmerston became Prime Minister at the head of a Whig-Peelite coalition ...

... from a contemplated infusion of Conservative Whigs into the Ministerial ranks. We do not perceive any question that, in the meantime, separates the two parties, for it mway be presumed that more aristocratic Whigs will not allow their party to become again ...

... preitar(--l to subordinate every purely political question. ‘or the man who votes for its endowment we will not vote, be he Whig or Tory; are you, we ask, equally determined? Ts your Voluntary principle stronger than your sccular politics? Are you prepared ...

... partially divided the Liberal party—chiefly among the Whig section. Sowe leading Liberals were opposed to Lord Palmorston's foreign policy in 1840-1. There also existed a personal cabal against the Whig Foreign Secretary. Lord Palmerston was not an original ...