... T.RE WHIG'S AND REFORM. TO THE EDITOR Sru,— I like to quote a Whig to a Whig, said brilliant Lord Chief Justice of Ireland in the House of Commons on the sth July, 1860, and it is certainly ve..y useful when we listen to and read the speeches the Whig ...

... LONDON. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER E 8 The Whigs seem born to blunder. It is not enough that after a lengthened tenure of power they should bequeath to their successors a legacy of failures, with the prestige of England rt duced to zero abroad, and the people ...

... proceedings in 1832. The Conservatives were not more opposed to change in the measure of 1832 than the Whigs, for up to 1852 the doctrine of the Whigs was that the bill of 1832 was to be regarded as a final measure, and accordingly the nick-name that Lord ...

... damnatory feature of all previous proposa.43 of the Whig Government and the Liberal party. Whoever shall have resided in a borough for one year, and paid the poor rates, shall have a vote. The Whigs, in their projected additions to the constituencies ...

... its surroundings, was fraught with vexation and danger. The working classes, justly incensed at being juggled with Whig pledges and Whig faithlessness since 1859, will discern in this bill a generous recognition of their rightful claims. The old farce ...

... cabinet, did not desire the bill to pass. The result was that the bill was talked out of existence by the Whigs, and was then formally withdrawn. The Whig Reform Bill having thus been buried by its friends in 1860, the question was allowed to sleep so far ...

... immediately successful. Lord STANLEY'S dispatches, we are told, are simply a repetition of those of the Whig Ministers; his arguments are mere rechauffgs of Whig versions of international rights and duties, and the result is, that notwithstanding pretentious ...

... Britain went ashore there 22 years ago. It is, I know, the height of presumption in a poor Irishman to correct an omniscient Whig reviewer • Lut I would call the attention of your readers to the fact that Dundrum, where some small part of the Fenian fiasco ...

... ordinary run of Liberal members of parliament, but that the Whig members for Edinburgh and Exeter should be reduced to the repetition of these worn-out tales shows forcibly the destitute state of the Whig mind; and really, sir, if these gifted gentlemen have ...

... rudiments of education; but at that time the Manchester party, who advocate low wages and cheap labour, had become masters of the Whig party, and these professedly free-traders forced upon them that anti-free-trade measure, the French Treaty,' by which not only ...

... down Mr. Flower came forward to be my opponent, and now I am going to quote to you from the Whig newspaper why Mr- Flower did not come as a candidate. The Whig newspaper, the Coventry Herald, says : Mr. Flower, a gentleman wcrthy the hearty support of ...

... (renewed laughter and applause). The Whigs as a governing body were for ever extinguished (loud laughter and applause). Lord Derby and a Conservative government were in office (applause). Mr. Gladstone had deserted the Whigs, and had become the grand marshal ...