... anything but pleasing combination. Disloyal or declamatory revolutionists, fiery or whimsical radicals, effete or snarling whigs, and others for whom it would be difficult to find a suitable name, are persons illsuited to the more subdued and sensible ...

... nt can be carried on by any people without a Ministerial and an Opposition party, without some organisation answering to .Whigs and Tories, Conservatives and Liberals. All parties under different names slip into some position of this kind, and if the ...

... hope success was left unused. But all failed because Mr. Gladstone’s oblect was too transparently veiled; while some of his Whig colleagues and followers were desirmis of giving him Indirect snub as they appear to have been of keeping the question of Reform ...

... “without portfolio ” is not likely to escape criticism in the House of Commons. It is true that such a position was filled the Whig Ministry by the Marquis of Lansdowne in his declining years, but the Lower House is much more particular than the Upper in ...