... THE WHIGS AND REFORM The Saturday Review considers there can be doubt that any Reform bill coming from the Liberal party, would have been of a very different character from the present bill. What Lord Derby said, when speaking of the ' Opposition Peers ...

... So long as the Tories allow the Whigs to do nothing, they are at least respectable and honest. If they do as the Whigs did, and justify the policy they adopt, there is nothing too bad to be said of them. What high Whig authorities would greatly prefer ...

... THE WHIGS AND REFORM The Saturday Review considers there can be donbt that any Reform bill coming from the Liberal party, ■would hare been of a very different character from the present bill. What Lord Derby said, when speaking of the Opposition Peers ...

... 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 ...

... 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 FOREIGN POLICY. Under which King are our foreign affairs to be conducted for the future ? Are we to obey the authority of Forcible Feeble the First or Forcible Feeble the Second ? Is our Minister to be Russell or Clarendon ? This may be an interesting ...

... MORE WHIG JOBBERY. Sir Charles Trevelyan is dismissed, and in him India has lost friend whom it is not in the power of this country to replace. The ostensible reason for this abrupt recall is the publication of his damaging minute Mr. Wilson’s financial ...

... WHIG FOREIGN POLICY. Under which King are our foreign affairs to be eonducted for the future ? Are we to obey the authority of Forcible Feeble the First or Forcible Feeble the Second ? Is our Minister to be Russell or Clarendon ? This may be an interesting ...

... ballot, please to remember that there is this difference between the Whigs and Tories. It has been said that we are hooted out of the House of Commons by Her Majesty’s Government and the Whig£ Why, full third of Her Majesty’s Government and two members of ...

... be only a canard : but there is no mistake that the Radical list was suddenly embraced in the afternoon by the Whigs and worked by the Whig agents notwithstanding the negociation. It will not do for them to repudiate their connexion with the artful dodge—the ...

... THE’POSITION OF PARTIES. Some of the men in the front rank of the Whigs are beginning to consider the political situation, and to take stock of their party now that the Reform Bill is inevitable. The first conclusion to which they may certainly arrive ...

... Bill is iaw, the Whigs no more Can make it their battle cry Though Beales, M.A., and Cleon Bright, Can to each other letters write Fresh grieTances outspy. Reform, reform, was their delight; Reform! they shouted day and night; The Whigs all heard it with ...