... Reform which, accord- ing to Lord Russell, distinguishes the orthodox Whig from the Conservative heretic, which dallies with no occa- sion and bows to no circumstances? The truth is the Whigs have wanted their Reform-that is, one to answer their purpose; and ...

... it is hoped, of re-uniting the disjointed sections of the party. The Whigs proper are ready to go in for a Re- distribution of Seats Bill; the Radicals press for the ballot. The Whigs are chagrined at the rejection of their re-endowment policy in Ireland ...

... before the House of Lords his views upon the .education of the people. During his long and useful.public life, the veteran Whig leader has given considerable attention to this most important subject. ?? only as a statesman, but as a citizen, he has done ...

... the satisfac- tion they feel at having accomplished what the Whigs tried in vain to achieve, regard with most painful mis- givings a change of such magnitude as has just taken place. The Whigs do not hide their chagrin at having their favourite hobby taken ...

... which, since the dissolution of the parliament that came into existence in 1852, have been held, one or both of them, by the Whig representatives of the Conservative party, have at length reverted to the advanced school with which Manchester is historically ...

... on, both inside and outside the walls of parliament, by the principal states- t men of the age. The veteran leader of the Whigs has intimated his intention of making it for the future a prominent feature in his political programme; and though, as the ...

... expected that mostof the Liberal majority will return to town. A great struggle of parties is in point of fact imminent. The Whigs chuckle, as well they may, at the stupid breach of faith committed by Lord Malmesbury and his ducal colleagues in the Upper ...

... Scotland-I heard that we had carried a measure not entitled to such distinc- tion as that for which more than seventy years the Whig party had teiled, since the time when, in the year 1793, .Lord Grey had been defeated by the machinations of Mr. Pitt. It is ...

... drawn as chalking No Popery on a door, and then running away. But any inconsistency whereof the distinguished leader of the Whigs during a lengthened period of agitation on behalf of popular rights may sometimes be accused, is likely to be forgotten in ...

... making such laws as they thought right.- (Cheers.) The Rev. J. R. STEPH.nas. explained that he did not seek to interfere between Whig and Tory differences, and did not for one moment wish to oppose any obstacle to Reform. He offered to discuss that question ...

... wecannot forgetthat the necessities of Mr. Disraeli's position force him to keep in advance of the schemes and plans of the Whigs; so that either he, or the House of Commons under his inspiration but ostensibly against his wishes, may pass a measure, that ...

... appropriation to educational purposes of the produce of the surplus revenues of the Irish Church, that Lord Derby seceded from the Whig ministry and became a Tory. The old questbin is coming up again; the famous Appropria- tion Clause is not indeed offered ...