... his agent Veasey, where, in reply to the former's remark, that A Whig is the only safe man for a place, the latter says-- And the Walpoles of Houghton, in all their relations, Have been Whigs to the backbone for three generations. Walpole. Ay, my father ...

... respect, the Scotsman repre sented the feeling of a considerable number of those politicians who would formerly have been called Whigs. It turns out, however, that the position taken by the Scotsman is exceptional. Liberals seem to be all but unanimously of ...

... Unionists are agreed but if that were in some way disposed of, where would they find a common policy The Conservatives and the Whigs might, indeed, contrive to act as a single party, but about the Church, education, the land, and other matters of hardly less ...

... promising facts in connection with the Exhibition is that it has nothing whatever to do with politics. Among the patrons are Whigs, Tories, Radicals, Unionists, and Home Rulers. For once, therefore, we shall be able to study Irish interests which are universally ...

... chances are, therefore, that if Mr. Gladstone is defeated he will resign. He cannot be succeeded by Lord Hartington, for the Whigs form a comparatively small part of the present House of Commons. But a Hartington. Chamberlain Cabinet might be formed, backed ...

... that an enumeration which is made in Ireland and in the Colonies should not be made in this island. We have heard that the Whigs, who ruled the roast at a good many former censuses, dropped the religious question out of deference to some of the Nonconformist ...

... evidently to the annoyance of the Pamellites, whose chieftain advised the people of Cork to vote for a Tory rather than a rotten Whig. The pro bable behaviour of the Home Rulers in the new House naturally excites a good deal of speculation. It is their interest ...

... According to this wise man, the defect of Liberalism is that its adherents have not sufficient respect for social discipline. Whig peers, it seems, hold themselves too much aloof from the vulgar multitude and ardent reformers sigh in vain for the delights ...

... of Egypt, and has carried none of the great measures promised in the heroic Mid lothian speeches. On the other hand, the Whigs have been alarmed sometimes by the expression of what are understood to be Mr. Chamberlain's revolutionary sentiments. Had ...

... opposed to the extension of the suffrage, and their attacks on the House of Lords have been watched with much uneasiness by their Whig allies. Again, the Conservatives have also shown that they know how to demonstrate. They have responded zealously to the call ...

... them but he could remember when, as a Whig baby, he was taught to look on a Dissenter as being much in the same category as a murderer, and on a Dissenting chapel as a den of iniquity, to be quickly passed by. The Whig babies of a '.iter generation had not ...

... not disposed to become one of the Radical leaders and we may be sure that he has not the faintest wish to act with humdrum Whigs and Conservatives. May it not be, then, that he proposes to form a party of his own On Monday he signi ficantly reminded the ...