... Conservative-and in the House of Lords the Conservatives are the majority-could well resist such a demand; and as for the Whigs and Liberals, they are in the presence of a bill which, as they have good reason to dread, will, if unrestricted and unbalanced ...

... really seem as if these people would rather accept a serpent from Mur. Gladstone than a fish from Lord Derby, a stone from the Whigs than honest substantial bread from the Conservatives. This is no doubt a nimisfortune ; but it is satisfactory to find that ...

... adoption of Lord Cairns's motion by the House of Commons on Thursday night was a victory of pure reason. If this be so, the Whigs are dished indeed. Not only have the Conservative party a cliance of remaining in office for a year or two more-it is the duty ...

... condition of household suffrage. Lord Russell's timid and distrustful speeches in the House of Lords showed that he, and the Whigs who followed him, were actuated by the same reactionary spirit as Lord Cairns and the Tory Peers. Mr. Mill, and the handful ...

... the Liberals in the competition for popular support; the Tories have passed a Radical Reform Bill with the assistance of the Whigs. It has been a startling and bewildering scene, not highly honourable to the main actors certainly, but yet perhaps not altogether ...

... Mansion House betrayed feelings which they were intended to conceal. Mr. Disraeli is not a Tory .any moore than Mr. Bright is a Whig; and Lord Derby, to do him justice, never talks about Toryism. All that remains of the old Tory principles of BolinDgbroke-and ...

... Gladstone cannot liope to take office with credit until a new Parliament, with new views, has made him more independent of the Whig Peers than he could be now, and it is a loss to the Ministry in the daily conduct of affairs that there should not be a leader ...

... uttered a wish to extend them. And the remarkable fact is that the bill has been passed, not with the hearty support of the Whig party, but with just so much opposition as they dared exhibit. And now that the conflict is over, and the bill is turned into ...

... substance. He has made a compromise which sacrifices both sides without saving anything for either. He has given a shell to the Whigs and a shell to the Tories, and allowed the Radicals to get the oyster. Yet the great Radical gain in the boi ough franchise ...

... their exaggerated fears. In justice to themselves thev are bound to protect their own measure fromn being libelled by the Whigs as revolutionary and tunconstitutional. Even taking into account the lodger franchise, which will affect only the larger towns ...

... sure that he could play it at short notice and get his part by heart after a very few rehearsals. One thing is clear, the Whigs must make up their minds to be the leaders of new Liberalism, or the followers of Mr. Disraeli. The -Daily 14eaws observes ...