... whole right of dictation to their employers i\Nditxh the xnxou'ats are anxious to assume. This declaration on the part of the Whig leader must have been a hard nut for the wvorking men, who hoped for so inuch at his hands. He is a free trader, and stands ...

... THE SCOTCH REFORM BILL. I IT is not easy to ascertain what sort of Reform Bill Scotch Whigs and W-hig-Radicals want, from their doe- I nunciations of the measure before the Rouse. They : X have had seven or eight months to think over it. . . Their last ...

... or nine seats, which D would include one for Dundee, and perhaps for Aberdeen. I . There are several whose party feeling as Whigs, or whose f strong political policy as Radicals, induces them to sacrifice. I . their feeling as Scotohmen, and who prefer ...

... favourably con- trasts the appointments Mr Disraeli has masde with the spirit of jealousy and exclusion, which has usually marked Whig fs. administrators. ...

... theopposition chief was at that moment threaten- ing with a vote of no confidence, Probably some such coalition may come about. The Whig benches contain many men who are not prepared to tie themselves to all the developments of Mr Glad- stone's views on the E ...

... afterwards erected, to do the work at present done by many parish and grammar schools. This is a very sharp judgment on the fine Whig scheme of revolutionising our educational sys- tem. But every statement which the writer gives, his readers has a fair opportunity ...

... accepting t revolutionary legislation, but a hostile vote in that sense may compel them to resign, and restore the reign of Whig- gery and do notlhingism. The House of Commons checkmat- ed similar tactics last session, and we have no fear that it will ...

... Church, and the Ire- land of to-day, when the whole Whig benches are shout- ing against the injustice, to which they were formerly so conveniently blind, lies in this Fenianism, and the I fact that the Whigs occupy the Opposition benches. What although Lord ...

... Conservative Minis- 1 try becomes thawed to liberality, and enters on Reforms in the line of constitutional ideas. But a ] Whig, in opposition, becomes roused to wrath and Radicalism, and is prepared to stake the Constitution on the chance medley of a ...

... as leader of the Opposition, he was bound to pro- li voice the encounter from all sections of his followers. From di old V'Whigs, economic critics, dissenting Radicals, and philo- w sophers-Mr Horsman, Mr Lowe, Mr Bright, and Mr Mill- gi there came one ...

... enough to keep hold of the hopes of the extreme Liberals, without snapping the cords of the party allegiance of the moderate Whigs. He floats off with the rising tide of popular opinion; and this is called earnestness of purpose. Mr Gladstone's change of ...

... their power, and the f good which they neglected to do, and now they are resolved to make the Ministerial party do what the Whigs neglected. The Titles Act has become a c grievance all of a sudden. Lord Stanhope moved, on I Thursday, for a Select Committee ...