... great questions with which Lord RUSSELL had to deal, his Whig bias and thorough party-training unquestion- ably injured the tone of his policy. With regard to the oppression of Poland, his Whig principles rendered him thoroughly restless, and his par ...

... in fact, dished the Whigs almost exactly as DISRAELI dished them in 1.867. He had no working majority. He was hampered by all kinds of difficult problems, of which the Bohemian question was only the most urgent. With that the Whigs were very much easier ...

... Earl Grey), and if the Irish members or the Home Rule Radicals wish to crush the Whig arguments of to-day they cannot do better than refer to the speech of this typical Whig of eighty-six years ago. Mr. Grey showed that the overwhelming majority of the ...

... jority will be Radical or Whig. To this question, it is answered, by most, persona that in the composition of the beral partyn the next 'arliame'nt the Whigs will be conspicuous-bytheir'absence.- Thaf-depends upon the Whigs As things are going just now ...

... either Whigs or Tories ever took up parliamentary reform as a question of principle. When the Whigs had got possession of the great borough interest the Tories were parliamentary reformers; when the borough interest passed to the Tories the Whigs were ...

... reform is to associate with the name Whig notions which only became connected with it a century later. This, as Professor Seeley truly says, is a fundamental point. If the modern Whigs are Reformers and the ancient Whigs are not, we may surely say that the ...

... of the political world, has lately acquired new signi- ficance. If a reaction does not come to the Whigs, the Whigs may stimulate a reaction. The Whig party, during the period of its union with the Radicals, has played a very useful if not always a very ...

... The Whigs tried to carry a Peerage Bill, which would have turned the House of Lords into a close oligarchy, and the Tories prevented them. The Tories would have increased the number of county members, and the Whigs resisted the attempt. The Whigs invaded ...

... the Whig Ministry, and they bitterly denounced that secret proceeding. Who can doubt that had the Whigs in 1820 been the Ministers, and proposed the bill, it would have found as strenuous opposition from the Tories as this bill found from the Whigs ? ...

... ever volunteer his advice to dismember the empire? All the Whig attacks on the Tories were directed to the ill-treatment of our fellow-subjects and the mismanagement of the war : the Whigs would have been more kind rulers and better generals, but only ...

... hardly be laid down. It is not even as if it were pretended that the House of Lords ltus the Whig party ought to have this wonderful veto on legislation. The Whig party, in the person of its most important members and its traditional representatives and ...

... scorn, which was common to all Whigs, the Radicals revenged themselves, however, by gradually bringing the name of Whig into discredit as that of a man who professed one set of principles and acted on another. The Whigs came to be considered the Jesuits ...