... 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 ...

... 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's tribute to the surpassing virtues of the ex- Chaocellor of tbs Exoheqner. Macaulay gave the history of England from tbe Whig point of view decent interval after the events coloured with such masterly hut disingenuous skill Hr. Gladstone asks too mnch ...

... Sir George Grey the Home Office, and Lord Bussell, if not in the Foreign Office, yet over it. Mr Bright himself owns that a Whig Ministry, such would probably come into power now, would not at all suit him, and that it would, as pots it, want constantly ...

... there nothing be oaer gently, or to call for indulgent interpretation la be tbe only trnetwortby wit- Beta in the 1 Were the Whig tactica of 1868 nnimpeachable, and thote of 1867 quite conaiatent and atraightforward! Wat there no with throw oat the Coneerratife ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... why Mr. Bright should say things Rochdale which even he might hesitate to utter elsewhere.” The Standard asks Why have not Whig Qovernmenla removed the grievances which, in Mr. Bright’s op nion, excuse Fcnianism and what Mr. Gladstone calls its monstrous ...

... 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) ...

... 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-- ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...