... THE OLD WHIGS. The Speciator declares that this caste are not 018 living under an illusion as to their power resistance, but as to the object of attack. Nobody, least of all this Cabinet, is threaten'n‘rwhlnd. The first object of them all to enfrauchise ...

... DISHING THE WHIGS. The Tories are at this old game of theirs and are playing it with such success that, unless their opponents develop more inventive genius than they have hitherto done they will soon be hard up for a cry. Home Rule is getting played ...

... IRELAND AND THE WHIGS. THE present state of Ireland resembles no former period of her political history. Since the Reform Bill became law, the Whigs have for the most part possessed the government of that country. A great practical question arises, How ...

... THE WHIG LEADERS. Lord Salisbury’s speech at Lambeth forms the subject of article in the Smturday Review. points oat that he was at disadvantage in so far as that most of the interesting subjects the moment, including almost all those relating to foreign ...

... WHIG PURITY. Surely, surely the Whigs act purely When they talk about it so demurely, When their journals all against bribery clamour, (Not always in the best of grammar) When Nineveh's noble hero, Layard, Boasts himself chivalrous as Bayard: Tories may ...

... Whig I ...

... WHIGS AND RADICALS. IN the Fortnightly Review Mr. Goldwin Smith given expression to a very general opinion that a crisis has arrived in the history of the Liberal party. But in the historical account be gives of the process by which the crisis has been ...

... WHIG GOVERNMENT. *■ . rHE TRUE UNVARNISHED RESUME OP PARLIA- MENTARY WORK IN SESSION 1871, TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD. Sir, — As the strongest possible testimony to the un- questionable efficiency of the present administration, 1 bave .0 call attention ...

... has rebelled. The hitherto compact party of Whig supporters has fallen to pieces; and at the beginning of the session, when all the members are in town, and most of them hanging about the lobbies, the Whig ministry finds itself deserted, the division ...

... THE WHIG P2EAN. WELCOME, welcome, sweet September! Soon amid the turnips green, We will never once remember The St. Stephen's arid scene; We'll forget election riot, Whips and promises and noise, And obtain refreshment quiet Where ST. PARTRIDGE has his ...

... not like the idea that the Radicals are triumphing over the Whigs. “The truth of the matter—and it is »>iurabld that should stated plainly—is this. The Whigs in recent times have been totally false both their traditions and their principles. It may gratify ...

... SMASHING THE WHIGS. IF Mr. Diemli amid claim the honour of '• dishing the Whigs, Mr. Gladstone will be found to have the credit of smashing them. The Tory Government defeated them, but Mr. Gladstone has disintegrated them. Wilful Willy has had his ...