... canter, leaving the Whig candidate out in the cold. But peculiar credit is being given to the junior member for Birmingham in the matter of this Derby by-election, for the reason that the incident has removed Sir William Harcourt from a Whig seat to a Radical ...

... have we a Foreign Secretary who is able to grasp the meaning of events. At last, thank Heaven, we have got rid of those able Whig statesmen of whom Earl -Russell was the lbeau ideal-a man who, in his view of great political events, never soared above the ...

... with that harmless exception, there has been no Radi- cal wind to ruffle the equanimity of the House. We are glad that the Whigs have not yet pledged themselves to suport Mr. Berkeley's per- petual motion, but experience teaches us that nothing is to be ...

... against all Whigs of hostility to the Church. They know and believe that among that political body are to be found eminent members of the Church who would lend them. selves to no men nor measures for it overthrow. But Colonel Adair is a Whig and something ...

... which the domination' of the Parnellites can be effectively crashed. IUpon the question of Irish independence Conserva- tives, Whigs, Liberals and Radicals must be at one. Throughout the strife of the general election there must be one common rallying- point ...

... that young Mr. Gladstone either could not or would not say for himself. Now this is no more than the duty of an old Whig to a young Whig, The eonse. quence is that Mr. Gladstone, junr., escapes ridicule, while poor Lord Amberley-we know what has hap. pened ...

... forced him into the groves of statesmanship. His position, as the scion of one of the greatest and most influential of the old Whig families, did the rest, and here he is, in the place which, next to that of the Premier, is in a sense, the most important ...

... Elliot is the very type, the shining example, of a Whig diplomnatist. All his family, all his domestic relations, his extraction and his prosperous career are of the Whig stamp; his brother is the Whig Earl Minto, his sister is the second wife of Earl ...

... own mistaken diplomacy. Any reader of history Can see in all the tactics of the Opposition the same policy which kept the Whigs out of office, in the time of Pitt, for so many years. Then the Emperor Napoleon-the destroyer of all nationalities-u-as marching ...

... Norwich bribery cases. It is note- I worthy that the Beefeater in this play was a sworn Whig, and that but for the motion of the Whig and the votes of his true Whig friends, the proceedings would not have been hushed up. We can quite un- derstand their ...

... peace and order which usually marks the British farmer; but they who have raised this objection have forgotten to observe that Whigs and Free-traders have set the example. There is less excuse for violent language when the emoluments of office, or the enrichment ...

... discovered lby him. Certainly the party has not yet acqusireil it, for it is nsot perceptiusfe in their attempts to involve a Whig camsdidate isa a hope- less content, ...