... .lermitted to exist in every department of trade and ictures in Great Britain. The League reckoned anions its adversaries Whigs as well as Tories. All were agains their projected alteration in the Corn Laws. The pet minister of the protectionists, with ...

... It originated with political party. By no political party has it been cherished. Till recently, it found little favour with Whigs or Tories, the Aristocracy or the Working Classes. It grew amid indifference and scorn. On no prevailing prejudice could it ...

... 665. a quarter was the price at which the ports [wese opened, but in[that year, at the close of the [war, certain gentlemen, Whigs and Tories, came forward in the ,Housc of Commons with bill for raising the protecting price from 665. to 80s. upon a sliding ...

... ON DITS. Some commotion has been occasioned in the Whig political circles, through the indiscretion of one of its members, in revealing the contents of a letter, meant to be strictly confidential. Two distinguished members are involved in this charge ...

... resisted the moderate proposals of the Whigs, confiding in the judgment one who had saved from foreign ers, were next week to witness the catastrophe of protection, its funeral procession followed by the Whigs mourning over the infant alx>rtion of their ...

... distinctions, of first starting in this last great movement; but the Conservatives are already hard upon the heels of the Whigs. Probably many of them were, to all practical purposes, legislators, converted before they knew it. We rejoice to find them ...

... When the Protection Party, under the leadership of Sir Robert Peel, drove the Whigs from power in 1841, Lord John Russell replied to an address from Plymouth, language now a little memorable. If the people are united, said, prohibitions and prohibitory ...

... more highly the consequence of his defection from the opposite camp, how fortunate must we bow consider the overthrow of the Whigs in 41 • Had their fixed duty been carried, would Sir Robert Peel have moved the repeal of it upon the principle of free trade ...

... associated. (Cheers.) If I were disposed to prove the merits of the Whigs or Tories, I should find very little to raise on account of either. (Hear, hear, and a laugh.) If turn to the Whigs, who possibly may be in power before many months shall have elapsed ...

... circles, that the most illustrious personage in the kingdom has, with her own lair hand, written kind l condescending letter a Whig nobleman, oi' that any objection had arisen his holding office, when on late occasion the task of l'orming I admin stration ...

... he, we are told, agree that the on!v way to seek peace to bully England. A friend having written the Courier, that certain Whig senators, alarmed at the idea of being hereafter stigmatiscel as the friends of England, hesitate to their course, and say ...

... motions for reduction of the malt tax, one during the short administration of Sir R. Peel, and the other after the return of the Whigs to office, both of which were rejected by large majorities. (Pari. Deb. 3rd S. xxvi. 737.—Idem, xxviii. 85.) The prices of ...