... t/s in the next Parliament. And if did not know this with tolerable certainty, even then predominance of Conservatives over Whigs at Wells alone would not effect the balance of probabilities in determining the future. It will also be many years before we ...

... source of contention. The Irish Church had long been a distant object of attack—and offered at the same time common ground for Whigs to attract within their rauks the extreme Anglicans, Nonconformists, and Roman Catholics. Resolutions condemnatory of that ...

... treated as man of his calibre would be, with respectful attention, yet he obtained only 54 votes in his favour; now the whole Whig party is on his side. Dr. Ball has risen in the esteem of all parties. His speech was masterpiece, and should be circulated ...

... triumphant. It would be as impolitic for a Bishop to be a violent partisan as it would be for a Monarch to be avowedly a resolute Whig or a Tory. The one would be a Bishop of a party and not of a Church, just as the other would be the monarch of a party rather ...

... affirmed, amongst other things, the necessity of dis-establishment. On those resolutions the opinion of the country was taken. Whigs, hostile to Mr. Gladstone, were almost everywhere rejected, and lesson of submission to the leader was taught in unmistakeablc ...

... of the Committee 01 Council for Education were first published, and a large grant money for carrying them out was asked the Whigs under Lord John Russell, from the House of Commons, there was a very general movement in the country against them. The organs ...

... bfecihle was a f|ic»d Oeofgeitfie:® b{!caa»a ( Greek; one because he was cle.er Tory j’atfother because hewaa-an arlatocratic Whig. Times art cbangeil now and qualifications are looked for a orddr. Church Kngland is not satiefied With mere scholars and ...

... of Mr, Bright. Not one concession of any importance has been wrung by the ever-vanquished Conservatives from the triumphant Whigs. The coalition of Presbyterians, Nonconformists, Romanists, and others, under the banners of Liberalism, has proved too much ...

... set ...

... Parliamentary representatives, no fault of his own, is no source of rejoicing on personal consideration, even to the most ardent Whig. Still there can be no doubt, on reading the evidence given at the late judicial investigation, that one of Mr. Phipps’ suppo ...

... Catbo ic College—and the Presbyterians out of tie funds to be taken from the Episcopal Church. Dean Stanley who, like the c'd Whigs,recognises three Irish Churches, and thinks that it would be just to divide Church property amongst them equi.lly, will see ...

... any distribution of the spoil amongst the Roman Catholics. Earl Russell will, most likely, carry with him the old-fashioned Whigs. And the split in the party likely to be caused ibis letter will have important effects upon the Gladstone Ministry. The Irish ...