... back a pace or two into alignment with the Whigs. It is this percep- tion which has dictated Sir William Harcourt'sjudicious defence of Whiggisiln, and inspired his protest against the application of the word Whig as a title of opprobrium to those persons ...

... in declaring that his Reform Bill came down from heaven ready-sewn, in insisting that because Whigs and Radicals are equally Liberals, therefore every Whig is bound to suppress his convictions, whenever a Radical thinks their expression inconvenient. ...

... have by mutual under- standing and common consent shelved great plans of education and of sanitary rcform. which either the Whigs or the Tories would not for a moment have hesitated to propose had they been legislating and administering in the presence ...

... of the Whig influence in the Cabinet, represented by the Marquis of Hartington. Mr. Gladstone, he thinks, erred in attempting anything more with his present Radical-Whig combination party than a measure of household suffrage to which the Whigs were pledged ...

... rottenness of the Whigs of tlc town wsho had stayed at home and voted neither for Mitchel nor M lci. 1le asked every man and woman in Nenagh to register a vow that they ixould never walk with, talk with, or bargain with the puling, cowardly Whigs who refused ...

... Government was bent on crushing him, and that he provoked its action with the idea that if the Whig Ministry did not pack the jury, they, breaking through Whig maxims, would be defeated in their prosecution; and if they did pack, that the furious ...

... on the Local Government Act. this year's finance, and Irish administration. He denied Mr. Gladstone's claiII to represent Whig traditions respecting the Union. As to his assertion that there are unequal laws in Ireland. he replied that the inequality ...

... another set, or would have understood its objects without the greatest difficulty. It is impossible to say what side an English Whig or an Er glish Tory would naturally hav e taken in the quarrel between Louis XV. and the Parliament of Paris, which distracted ...

... It has often been made a reproach to him that he exaggerated both vices and virtues alike, taking care, however, that the Whig dogs should this time have the best of it. To follow hial in each one of the minute likenesses he draws would task a man who ...

... Gambetta's organ yesterday contained a leading article as full of sage reflections as if the writer were a veteran English Whig. The Monarchists will, of course, doubt the sincerity of this Republican modesty in the hour of triumph; but the very utterance ...

... privilege as com- pletcly as does the moral and mental condition of the voter who knows nothing of the distinction betveen Whig and Tory, except that one goes with yellow ribands antd the other with blue, and who can only be pre- vented by the utmost ...

... his Cabinet would be his cold refusal to recognize the possibility of finding administrative talent outside the beaten way of Whig family friendship. The country will undoubtedly regard the promotion of this young politician as satisfac- tory in itself, ...