... THE WHIG CREED. The Spectator does not find much that is novel or ‘ striking in Lord Russell’s third letter to Mr. Chichester | Fonescue, but does not admire the old champion of Justice to the people the less for his intolerance of passivity in the great ...

... WHIG AND TORY ADMINISTRATIONS.* WE are reminded what great changes divide us | from 1855 when we reflect that then a compulso newspaper stamp confined an acquaintance wi{K political affairs to a small and comparatively | wealthy class. Now we cannot conceive ...

... upon this question there rests mainly with Lord Salisbury a grave responsibility. The arguments on whig Mr. Gladstone defended his plan last night were not cogent, though the reasons which Ic& him to proposeit in the Bill were masterlyand most prudent ...

... contest now going on in Dumfriesshire excites extraordinary interest in Scotland. It is much more than a party strugle between Whig and Tory ; it is to decide whether the representation of the counties shall be, as heretofore, in J\e hands of the resident ...

... he hadfixcome part, ‘3! course there are the eldest sons of Whig peers, whose calling up to the House of Lords would not be so repugnint to those peers themselves ; but the eldest sons of Whig peers arc many of them members of the House of Commons, who ...

... convinced that it is but a re-shuffling of the old Whig cards, and not in any modern sense 2‘‘ Liberal ” Cabinet. It is the embodiment of ‘aristocratic exclusiveness '’ and the representative of the old Whig influence, with nothing on the face of it to show ...

... fecling of uneasiness at seeing ten springs of deccent crafted at a stroke in the House of Lords, The sons of Whigs elevated to the peerage—nay, Whigs themselves to whom the accident happens—ofien drop behind into Conservatism; and how is a House of Lords ...

... assertion so notoriously at variance with the facts. The plain truth is, it was a device of the Whigs ; and it was first put ia oractice by a knot of Edinbu Whigs in the sham El.?u. of a well-known -house on the classic sof the Gala Water, The example soon ...

... communication between the great Whig aristocracy and the philosophical thinkers of the educated classes in general. Men like Brougham, Sydney Smith, Moore, Mackintosh, Horner, Jeffrey, and the rest of them, did for the Whig party vc:x much what the wits ...

... us interview with Charles Fox, the First Napoleon said that his life was menaced by assassins whom Pitt had hied, the yreat Whig's politeness broke down, and he ...

... be the candidate elected by the Labour Kepresentation League, that their candidate will be put forward without reference to Whig or Conservative interests, and that if any cry be raised about dividing the Liberal interest and letting in the Tory such cry ...

... All his proclivities will lead him towards a coalition with the old Whig party, the safe politicians of the Centre. Probably his transference from one side to the otherback to the Whig traditions of his family, for in spite of their proud motto, * Sans ...