... whole right of dictation to their employers which the unionists are anxious to assume. This declaration on the part of the Whig leader must have been a hard nut for the working men, who hoped for so much at his hands. He is a free trader, and stands up ...

... regard Ireland as a nation of lunatics. The questi m was now beyond the resistance of the Tories or the tinkering of | the Whigs.' It was one which the people had themselves deteri mined, as would be seen the nekt election, to settle on the i principles ...

... THE SCOTCH REFORM BILL. It is not easy to ascertain what sort of Reform Bill Scotch Whigs and Whig-Radicals want, from their denunciations of the measure before the House. They have had seven or eight months to think over it. Their last year’s wrath Was ...

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

... favourably contrasts the appointments Mr Disraeli has made with the spirit of jealousy and exclusion which has usually marked Whig administrators. ...

... opposition chief was at that moment threatening with a vote of no confidence. Probably some such coalition may come about. The Whig benches contain many men who are not prepared to themselves to all the developments of Mr Gladstone s views on the Established ...

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

... 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 system. But every statement which the writer gives, his readers has a fair opportunity ...

... his position as leader of the Opposition, he was bound to provoke the encounter from all sections of his followers. From old Whigs, economic critics, dissenting Radicals, and philosophers—Mr Horsman, Mr Lowe, Mr Bright, and Mr Mill there came one cry, and ...

... infinite. A Conservative Ministry 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 ...

... 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 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 grievance all of sudden. Lord Stanhope moved, on Thursday, for a Select Committee on ...