... regarding each other with increas ing coldness. The Whigs would unanimously support the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, whereas the Radicals consider that the proposal is a mere revival of despotism. The Whigs, while anxious to do justice to the Irish peasantry ...

... future to formal separation. In the first place, if the Whigs dissent to some extent from the Radicals, it does not follow that they agree in all essential respects with the Tories. The words Whig and Tory still represent a real difference not only of ...

... Whigs and Radicals.-- During the last week or two we have heard hardly anything of those dissensions in the Tory party about which Lord Randolph Churchill had so much to say. Whether or not there were serious differences of opinion among Conservatives ...

... The Whig Attitude. -There is something pathetic in the pose of the leading Whigs, as they mournfully protest that, although they could not join the Government, they nevertheless remain as robust as ever in their Liberalism, and most devoted followers ...

... long spells of office. At the present moment Scotland and Wales return 61 Whigs against 29 Tories, and, if we add the somewhat doubtful Home Rule Brigade of the sister isle to the Whig side, the Liberals command a majority in the United Kingdom (exclusive ...

... ones out of cells in its broad back, so has the Liberal Party multiplied its species by a similar process. There are- Whigs and Whigs, Radicals and Radicals, Liberals and Liberals, Hartingtonians, Gladstonites, Morleyites, Chamber- lainites, and Goschenites ...

... the Executive with any additional powers, and would trust entirely to remedial measures for the pacification of Ireland. The Whigs, including such men as Lords Granville and Selborne, and a more important man than either of these, Mr. Gladstone him self ...

... defied the lightning, he felt pretty confident that it was of a harmless sort, and so, when Mr. Chamberlain challenges the Whigs to crush him if they can, there is a touch of sly humour about his attitude which somewhat detracts from its dignity. What ...

... part in the politics of her time. Her method of winning votes for the Whigs was by laying siege to men's hearts, and so gaining them over to her side. She was called the Queen of the Whigs, and it is said that she won the Westminster election for Fo.\, who ...

... not too much to say that all classes of Liberals are to some extent secretly alienated from him and his colleagues. What the Whigs think of his Irish policy has been clearly enough indicated by the resignation of the Duke of Argyll. They admit that something ...

... shifting of opinions by which the staunch Whig of one generation found him self stranded and left behind as a Tory by the next gene ration. Once upon a time we called the advanced guard of politicians New Whigs, now we call them Radicals. Reform was the ...

... June 1832, he took an active part as a member of the Whig Opposition, and threatened to become a serious rival of Lord John Russell for the future leadership of the party. On the accession of the Whigs to office, in the month of November 1830, he was made ...