... THE LAST OF THE WHIGS Requiems have often been sung the decline of Whiggism, but it still drags on uncomfortable existence. As a system of politics, indeed, it is already dead, but its traditions are yet maintained some few survivors of earlier period ...

... WHIG FIDELITY Mr. Samuel Whitbread, •with great self-com.- placency, relies upon the faithful manner in which he has represented this borough. Now, as a specimen of the faithfulness of Mr. Samuel Whitbread towmrds the constituency we take the liberty ...

... THE WHIG-RADICAL LEADERSHIP. Sir, —When first I read Mr. H. T. Hall’s one column effusion in the Independent Frees I oould not believe it was authentic, or that lie, General Secretary of the Liberal Registration Association, was authorised to issue such ...

... THE WHIG BANQUET Many strange tales have been circulated about the proceedings said to have taken place at the dinner of the so-called Liberals” after the declaration of the poll of the county election, but the statements were so very startling that they ...

... THE WHIG BANQUET. Many strange tales have been circulated about the proceedings said to have taken place at the dinner of the so-called Liberals” after the declaration of the poll of the county election, but the statements were so very startling that ...

... brings against the Whigs, which is a mere reiteration of what the Administrative Reform Association urges against the aristocracy in general. The complaint is not just, because office lias on many occasions been offered by the heads of Whig Cabinets to eminent ...

... Liberal creed ? Yet Macaulay is sometimes held up as the typical Whig of the old school from whom your modern Radical is terribly degenerated. But he is typical Whig only because he is dead. “Whig” as a political term has been dropping out of use late years ...

... OLD WHIGS IN KERRY Father Godiey, C.C., Ballybunnion, county Kerry, was called Mr. Reid, and gave evidence of the character which has been already given scores of gentlemen of his class In tho course of bis crossexamination was asked whether in Kerry ...

... MR. WAR NEB AND THE WHIGS. A meeting convened by circular, signed by Sir Wm. Foster, was held tbe large room the >yal Hotel on Tuesday afternoon last, to concert measures the present oasis which has arisen Norwich politics. Although the circular stated ...

... THE WHIG LEGACY. Whatever be the fate of the Derby Administration —whether it be doomed merely to assume a tangible shape and then pass away, or to flounder on, until exorcised by an indignant people through tlie agency of a new Parliament—it cannot owe ...

... PROPORTION OF WHIG AND TORT PEERAGES. The charge which has been made against the Conservative Governments of making an undue proportion of peers admits of a very decisive answer. Mr. Disraeli, Lord Derby, and Sir Robert Peel held power altogether for ...

... WHIG ECONOMY AND MANAGEMENT. are continually being told by the Whigs of the extravagance and mismanagement of the Conservative party : but the most extraordinary facts connected with the political history of modern times are the enormous expenditure of ...