... stated by Lord Kimberley to sympathise with the Fenians, whether the occupant of Dublin Castle is a Whig or a Tory. Whether the Lord Lieutenant be a Whig or a Tory, he must be equally the enemy of conspirators whose aim is to wrest Ireland from the sovereignty ...

... Reform Bill, through the amendment, for of that there is no evidence whatever. We should even question whether the Whig instinct to keep a Whig Government in place was strong enough to induce this section of the party to accept not only the Government, but ...

... expense and working of the Board of Charity Commissioners, and in so doing, denounced the Board a great Whig job, and its offices as a perfect Whig snuggery. Mr Bruce defended the Board and the Government, and said the Government could not accede to the ...

... Saturday. The disturl ances which were reported to harp occurred Londonderry have been contradicted a second edition of Northern Whig. ...

... dnly other matters are those relating to fortiga affairs, and cannot see what would be altered by shifting parties. Whether Whigs or Tories are in, the Maori war will be carried on, and there will be fighting with the bill tribes of India, and, perhaps ...

... been guilty of the unpardonable sin of disbelieving in pure Whiggery, and therefore it has long been the fashion among pure Whigs say all sorts of hard things against that able member of the House of Commons. The advanced Liberals, who are at present ...

... present Ministerial crisis is one of no ordinary importance. What we witness just now is not merely change of Government from Whig Tory, brought about in the old-fashioned manner, on a principle not dissimilar from that by which the rotation of crops regulated ...

... or without Whig consent, given the Whig bulwark aiude shaking ; and it is remarkable and significant, that while he did so, Mr Disraeli was silent. It may be, that the leader of th» Opposition was not a prey to grief because he saw the Whig handiwork in ...

... Conservative Minister had entered into the transaction for the purpose of securing the Irish members, it was not unlikely a Whig Minister would effect similar operation when became necessary to attach the Hibernians his standard. What we then pointed out ...

... Finance one of the weak points of the Whigs, and few mei, who have been educated their school, are fitted to preside over the Exchequer. The present Chancellor one of the most popular of those who have served with Whig administrations ; but he was trained ...

... profess sympathy with that sort of partizanship which believes that party Government is to be perpetuated in this country by the Whigs always bein in power. We do not believe in that, for the simple reason that such a state of things would be the destruction ...

... ng. To give Lord John his due, there was one part of his speech which was well and truly spoken. Last year a number of our Whig contemporaries, feeling that there was something shameful the loss of the latest Reform Bill, loudly blamed the Conservative ...