... expelled them from office. The Whigs then took their party advantage of the Tory omission to do anything in the way of vertical extension' of franchise. The Tories were now preparing to take their party advantage in turn of the Whig omission to do anything in ...

... in declaring that his. Reform Bill came down from heaven ready-sewn, in insisting that because Whigs and Radicals are equally Liberals, therefore every Whig is bound to suppress his corivictions, whenever a Radical thinks their expression inconvenient ...

... divisions between these classes are very marked. Mr. Disraeli wants to angle for the extreme Liberal party, to outbid the Whigs with whom his party a little disagree, and to buy the support of the Radicals with whom they much disagree. The Anti-Dizzy ...

... binding on the successor of the man who gave it. Some of our readers will remember the long and obstinate refusal of the old Whig Government to abate any one of the hard restrictions placed on the access of our historical students to the State Paper Office; ...

... THE CATTLE PLAGUE IN IRELAND. A late edition of the Whig reports i;hat the cases at Lisburn and Glennachan are not ruderpest. These are the cases referred to in the report which appeared in yesterday's papers. The Irish Times, of yesterday, says : No ...

... reasonable power for a decent , time. With this view he has tried to gain Whig ad-. herents. But no members of the late Cabinet could or would serve, and the discontented Whigs of the House of Commons are a shifting basis. They contain one man of great ...

... or retire with edifying rapidity. Chief Justice Lefroy will, we fear, find his faculties not quite what they were when the Whigs were in power. The Conservatives have been so long out of office that their friends have been obliged to save up a few loaves ...

... Mr. Disraeli's advances. Did he show a knowledge of his novels, we wonder? Did he refer to the Venetian Doge policy of the Whigs, and congratulate the country on Mr. Disraeli's victory over the Doges? We should like to have heard how Filby found his own ...

... IRELAND. Tho termination of the session, says the Saturday Review, has been consistent with its beginning. It began, under a Whig Government, with the suspension of the Habeas Corpus in Ireland; it ends, under a Conservative Government, with a re-enactment ...

... instead of awaiting the debate in their own House; and in the second, that the Ministry cannot rely on the unbroken aid of the Whig families who carried the Bill of 1832, and who still lead so considerable a section of the House. It is all very well to taunt ...

... no majority, but no minority large enough to carry on daily business. They would be compelled either to rely entirely upon Whig forbearance, which can never last long while so many are hungering for place, or to ally themselves with Mr. Bright, and so ...

... is amiable and hard-working. There is not one qualification for his office which Lord de Grey possesses except that he is a Whig nobleman—that his antecedents encourage an expectation that he will come down regularly to his office, and that when he gets ...