... fcical effect, the new liberal policy. The veteran Whig Poor showed by his speech on the motion for the second reading of the Bill, that he was not by any means an enthusiastic admirer of Mr Gladstone's objects any more than he was of all the means by ...

... dean may well hide his diminished head, for, as a partisan, he is worthy of neither Whig nor Tory, nor of any side in which courage and honesty and “ pluck are valued. As for his {»atron and father-confessok, the editor of the Scotsman, his light also ...

... the younger Liberals in the House of Peers, but his first appearances damaged his reputation, and he has now subsided into a Whig hack perhaps more than average calibre. That this was not the position he aimed at must patent to all who know the positively ...

... wince.” In the Whig Reform Bill of 1832, although mighty improvement upon the close borough system, there was less of simplicity, of justice, of directness, and of consistency than in the Conservative measure of 1867-68. The “pickings” for Whig purposes were ...

... latter gave way to Earl Bussell, reserving his claim to a hearing after* wards, the Duke of Abercorn was put up to answer the Whig ex-Premier, and the Duke of Argyll to reply to the ex-Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. The list then stood as follows Russell, Abercorn ...

... into two distinet part —the one above, the other below, the gang- way. The Whigs above the gangway formed one party and those below formed another. Both had po liey, but the Whigs below the gangway to the land and had one especially with regard the Church ...

... established on the principle of religious inequality as between Protestants and Roman Catholics. This Protestant settlement the Whigs of our generation, under the leadership of Mr Gladstone, are doing their best to uproot. Lord W. Hay in his letter tries, indeed ...

... the new Liberal policy—a policy which, Lord Elcho proved in his very fresh and vigorous speech, has finally annihilated the Whig party by merging them with i*lP Radicals the great me sure which its first practical outcome 1* before the Peers of Britain ...

... wrote in the palmy days of the Whigs to Mr Horner, and John Allen (Ix>rd Holland’s Allen, Lord Byron's - Heliogabulus of Books”), *• lam auxioas for reform; but I cannot dissemble suspicions of jobbism to which my Whig friends are prone ” Credit is alike ...

... the younger Liberals in the House of Peers, but his first appearances damaged his reputation, and he has now subsided intp Whig liack of perhaps more than average calibre. That this was not the position he aimed at must be patent to all who know the ...

... securing to the Irish Church what we consider her rightful property, or even if Earl Grey’s plan of levelling-up, carried by Whig- Radicals ami time-serving Erastians, is too much for the Nonconformist supporters of the Government to swallow, the end we ...

... observe what fell from the lips of Lord Granville last night. It will be seen that he, acknowledged be the most conciliatory of Whig Peers, could Only say that amendments in regard some of the details of the Irish Church Bill —that is to •ay, verbal amendments ...