... 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 ...

... this affords the best prospect of maintaining those institutions, that they support it. The Whig lords are more outspoken in tbeir fear of the people than the Whig commoners, but even they do not venture overt resistance to the bill.” LORD HALIFAX’S AMENDMENT ...

... closed doors, or if they could send the bill to select committee, composed of ten Whigs and fire Tories, we should see some strange transmutations. But, in open daylight, the Whigs will keep up their professions of liberality. We expect, therefore, that the ...

... crisis ; but it is ready to face it. If its opponents, led by Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright, with all the officials of the old Whig party, choose to force on a decisive combat in the House, with an appeal to the country as ultimate umpire, the Government ...

... from London with hisson, who was once accepted by the Whigs as their candidate. The appearance of the Jaoksons, pdre it Jlls, in the field waa significant, and it quickly became apparent that the Whigs were at their old work again. On no oceasion has the ...

... plain and honest duty—a duty which every Government, under the same circumstances, would have had discharge—which even the Whigs themselves, if they had been in office, would not have been able shirk. is disgraceful our public men, that there should have ...

... trifling the Reform which might have been expected from the recognised leader of the Whigs. Indeed, as Lord Cairns felicitously said, the aim and object of the Whig party is to be the possessors and proprietors of a sort of Pandora’s box, though with ...

... sufficiently without weak points to withstand agitation, even a factitious one set going for mere party purposes. It is tbe Whigs and Radicals England that we have really contend against. beg Conservatives in Ireland not to make victory impossible. Tbe ...

... read in the light of Whig denunciation of all jobbery not due to Lord Russell. It was proposed, if mistake not, the member for Inverness-shire to unite Sutherland with Caithness, and no one argument except the possible loss of a Whig vote, was ever brought ...

... could have been more valuable, or to literary politicians more interesting, than a sketch of the English situation from the old Whig point of view, the point, that is, of men who seek to preserve our society without rejecting the help of popular force or ignoring ...

... it was corrupt as Totoea. Mr. J. HARDY rejoined that tbe fact was Conservative feel* ing was strong in Diurtmonth, and tbe Whigs thought fit to go there with tbe view of turning out the Conservative member, they could not expect to do that without having ...

... Price, M.P.). That bill, in spite of all that might be said by the Liberal party, bad been moat violently opposed by the Whigs in tbe Hoose of Commons, and it was entirely through the energy and exertions of Conservative Government that these benefits ...