... Palmerston's Government as a great national misfortun —(laughter)—not that he considered it a national misfortune that the Whigs should out of office, for a change of office was sometimes wholesome, but because it was great evil to this country that G ...

... into the Liberal ranks in pauperis forma, and who even now, although a Liberal, does not answer to the description of a pure Whig. ...

... Earl Grey in resolving to head the opposition to the bill were more than realised by the cantankerous proceedings of the noble Whig. He seemed only to have taken the side of the Government in order that he might castigate them with more effect. And he lashed ...

... certainly is an advantage to be occasionally shown measures and questions of policy through spectacles that are not exactly Whig or Tory. Mr Horsman inferentially complains of the much speaking that has been inflicted on the country, during the last four ...

... declaration of war against the working classes, could, if it so chose, serve them in this matter fully more effectually than the Whigs. The Tories have been understood to rather like the duty of protecting working people against their employers, and hence they ...

... would be ludicrous to reflect that all this confusion and danger follows on a Treaty not yet twelve years old, negotiated by Whig Minister and signed by a Conservative Foreign Secretary. A Treaty which was to secure the integrity of Denmark, preserve the ...

... in 1831. The rotten burghs of England were a standing reproach ; and had it not been for the interest which some influential Whig families had in that kind of property, schedule A. would undoubtedly have been much more comprehensive than it was. With that ...

... Belonging to the Conservatives by birth, breeding, and connections, he is little Conser vative in opinion that model of a Whig, Lord Russell. But, if not a representative m m in party sense, Lord Stanley may regarded representative in another sense. ...

... question, brought in a fragmentary measure, a measure which settled nothing, one of those bit-by-bit schemes to which the Whigs, including their leader, had always been opposed. This was done in deference to a section of the Liberals, who, till within ...

... The Ministry seem to have thought that if they made it all right with the Member for Birmingham they could easily compel the Whigs, or moderate Liberals, to vote for the bill whether they liked it or not. The result not bearing out this expectation. It is ...

... atroilg which a pretty sure meet the opposition the Conservatives, , at lea3t) t l( , rePae criticism a large section of the old Whigs ? think not, andif no proposal* ma extend the suffrage laterally, have the gravest forebodings of the fate of the bill. The ...

... Trade »ne«. Corn Laws were a modern invention. In their principle tbey were connected with methods government initiated by the Whigs, and the Tories the reign of Queen would have fought against them the death. But the action of the Anti-Rrpeal party was not ...