... Minister came into power whose favourite idea it has always been to emancipate the Crown from the restrictions under which the Whig precedents had placed it. And it was to this of the question that Mr Dillwyn and Mr Courtney forced back the attention of a ...

... year the demand fur Reform had taken bold of the nation ; and at the election of a new Parliament in October of that year the Whigs carried the counties by a majority of Bto 5, and the cities by Bto 1. So that the downfall of Tory supremacy which had lasted ...

... country would soon be that the employer would be responsible for his workmen. (Cheers.) A change was necessary, either from Whig, Tory Conservative, or Lib era l. And in view of a general election it was necessary that they should keep up the presstire ...

... henceforth, end until this ill-advised agitation shall cease, to adopt the course I have indicated. I shall support no man, Whig or Tory, who is prepared to lend himself to the ruthless work of Disestablishmeet, or who speaks of it in the Jesuitical style ...

... wealth. Her fourth bus. band, whom she married in 1863, was Mr Chichester- Fortescue, now Lord Carlineford, the well-known Whig statesman. Although an ardent partisan, and always anxious to advance the inter eats of the Liberal party, the general receptions ...

... split of the party on this question. But this assumes too much. We have to learn whether Lorl Hartington speaks for his fellow Whigs or only for himself. There is a vast difference between the two. No doubt, even in the latter case a condemnation of the land ...

... expressed the general feeling of the Whigs, his speech contains the doom of the Land-laws ; and even if it does not, it is a most important event. For years past, it has been well understood that all Liberals outside the Whigs were willing or eager to alter ...

... light on their doings. Here are some of Mr Waterston's deliverances : Comparing the claims of Whig and Tory, he said that of the two be preferred the Tory. The Whig promised them everything and gave them nothing, while the Tory promised them nothing and gave ...

... found that nothing more will be heard of it. Strangely enough, too, the chief opposition to the entettaiument came from the Whig members of the party. They have not, as yet, overcome their annoyance at what they consider Lord Hsrtington'e unexpected and ...

... as our readers are aware, has also frankly announced his disapproval of any such policy. On this ground, therefore, both the Whig and Tory candidates for the county at the approaching General Election will be agreed. All parties, indeed, are at one that ...

... of the essential injustice, impolicy, and social peril of the existing land laws that he is ready to vote for any Ministry, Whig or Tory, that will pledge itself to deal a ith their reform. The Liberal party, he continues, if they are worthy of the name ...

... saying to us, And hi, boys ! whatever you do, for God's sake don't play with your Conservatives near the first Whig hole, the snuggest Whig bole in all Scotland I (Loud and continued laughter and cheering.) ...