... THE STARTLED WHIGS. THE tenacity of Whig prejudice is very curious. There is far more sympathy between the true Conservative and the true Liberal, than between the Whig and the latter. One would think that modern progress would widen the Whig’s area of vision ...

... 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 very different character from the preaent bill. What Lord Derby laid, when speaking of the ‘Oppo* aition Peers/ ...

... AND THE WHIGS. The Saturday Review, after reciting the collapse of the Cave one the remarkable events of the session, goes show that the Beform bill has dished” the Whigs for time, if not for ever. The unnecessary loquacity of the steady-goiog Whig Peers ...

... bound to support the Whigs in return for having got the franchise through tbe manoeuvres aod exertions Whig Government. Everything else was go on before, bat there should be addition to the electoral power which keeps good honest Whigs in office.” ...

... fate of the Whigs. It was impossible that measures similar character and import could be brought forward without materially affecting decaying party, whose interests were entirely bound np with the maintenance the present system. Some Whigs who were unduly ...

... the Whig Cabinet which succeeded that of Lord Derby in 1859. Lord John Russell, indeed, made a show of bringing in Reform Bill, order to redeem the promises under which he and his colleagues returned to office. But the Bill was burked by the Whigs themselves ...

... damns* tory feature of all previous proposals of the Whig Governmeol and the Liberal party. Whoever shall have resided in borough for oue year, and paid the poor rates, shall have a vote. The Whigs, in their projected additions to the constituencies, ...

... some extent, we may still say enduring) distinction between the two great Parties is, that the Whigs sought to rule the country by means of an oligarchy—Whig Cabinets were open only to members of the high aristocracy, especially to the noble houses who ...

... confesses himself to be a Whig of the strictest type. There always have been two parties in the Liberal ranks. There are the Old Whigs, to whom I profess to belong. 1 have learned my Liberalism in the school of the Old Whigs—l have learned it in the school ...

... be matched even in the annals of Whig administration. question whether this is not indeed Lord Russell's prime achievement in the art foreign diplomacy. On this little matter baa been showered all the resources of Whig blundering. It is clear from the ...

... free. But the Whigs owe everything to the British Constitution ; their rank, their fame, their prosperity. And to do their present leader justice, he is not tardy in acknowledging his obligations to that venerable entity. Between the Whigs and the Radicals ...

... Mr. Gladstone and the discomfiture of the Whigs ; but it is clear that the Whigs are not answered. The only reply which the Radicals condescend to give them is that they must have Mr. Gladstone, whether the Whigs like it or not. With respect to those who ...