... education its present development has besn mainly bail! np under the guidance of Whig Ministries, and it is therefore with a sort of amused surprise that tbe public finds tbe Whig Minister par excellence, proclaiming in set form the faults and the short-comings ...

... determination to retain office six-andthirty years longer, provided it can command anv means majority in the Hoase of Commons. The Whigs have always been wiser in their generation than the Tories • they never forget reward their friends. The Tories take it for ...

... were discharging their duty returning person his position. Lord Frederick Pitcroy’a party consisted nnmber of respectable Whigs, who bad been his adherents all along, and there were also in addition some Conservatives, whowith tbe greatest deference to ...

... Earl Russell has a curious. propensity for appropriating to himself all questions which he 1 deems important. He regards them Whig! property, and seises upon them with avidity.: Thus, when it became known that Peel intended to deal with the Com Laws, one ...

... injury to the' cause. Of this we haVe no fear. It will simply show the nation how little they can trust to the last of the Whig oligarchs since he condescends to use for partisan purposes a question which is wholly national. The House of Commons of-- ...

... incorrect. It left opoa than* who heard The Reset re Bond Micbaelmee, Law each beada to gentleman of the it the impreaeion that the Whig leader bated the Cboreh of 1867, re £13,348 3 0 Bar, to be relected by them, with liberty to him to aaao- England mocb more ...

... other an intelligent student of all our newspapers, as well acquainted with public opinion in England as if he were a bran-new Whig peer who had presided over the Board of Control. We leave our readers to judge which is likely to be the more accurate portrait ...

... may well rejoice that one great source of hostility, one great topic of dissension has been taken away ; and that Tories, Whigs, and Radicals will (tetter able to pul shoulder to shoulder, and give a long pull, a strong poll, and pall all together, in ...

... the agitation which took plaee, and the failure of previous Governments. The m-Uler was agitated Lord John Russell, and (he Whigs generally, for many years, and any sacrifice had been made by the Cowervsiivea it was purely from patriotic motives (cheers) ...

... houses common in Sussex, looking over terraced gardens and wide downs to the sea that bore William the Norman to England. A Whig pur sang; an objector to large organic changes a most accomplished and gentlemanly and efficient Whip; one pretty well knows ...

... extra-Parliamentary utterance from the Opposition side of the House ! Mr. Otway is of very different type from Mr. Brand ; no old Whig he, but an advanced Liberal, with a desire for short Parliaments and the ballot. To the crowded population of Chatham he points ...

... Gladstone at present restricts his political sympathies to Ireland, and that Scotland will find him next session leading the Whig opposition to the Government proposal for giving Scotland her just rights. In his second speech, at Southport, Mr. Gladstone ...