... No one can hi doubt that political parties are just now under- m. going a revision which is almost revolutionary. of The old Whig division, which once seemed to be on the heavenly and happy mean between two dis- lit eordant extremes, is annihilated by recent ...

... alliance with one section of the majority in order to outvote the other. Such co-operation with the aristocratic section of the Whigs would, we are told, have been commendable, though such an alliance with the advanced section of the Liberal party is reviled ...

... Society, is to he the candidate elected by the Labour Representation League. He is to be put forward without reference to Whig or Conservative interests, and it any cry be raised about dividing the Liberal interest, and letting in theTory, such cry v-ill ...

... bom on March 29, 1793, was educated at Eton, and in 1821 entered Parliament as mem- ber for Stockbridge. Belonging to an old Whig family, he took part at first in the passing of many Liberal measures. In 1824 he delivered his maiden speech, and at once ...

... statement again tue speaker fortified with an oath—there would be such an uprising of the people that no Government, whether Whig or Tory, cuuld resist it. The chair- man at this meeting read a notice that on the occa- sion of the Queen's visit to the City ...

... from office! Truly, indeed, may it be said that the people are made the stalking horse for both parties in ths State-the Whigs land the Tories. Cicero expressed astonishment how two such rank impostors as augurs could look one another in the face without ...

... Gladetone, thirty-three years afcpr the disesta- bliahment of Mr. Stablea'a bishopric9, to secularize the revenroes which the Whigs sought to appro- priate in 1835-an act which caused Mr. Stanley to leave the Liberal ranks for ever. The result nielt have ...

... their abuses removed, while they them- selves are conserved and combated for with thehgreatest enthusiasm. Thus the hereditary Whig separated early from his party when they attempted to play the tricks with the Irish Church which that modernaJggler, Mr. Gladstone ...

... consequently in his seventy-first year. His father, who did not succeed to the Earldom until thirty- five years later, was a strong Whig; but his tastes lay rather in the direction of natural history than politics. He was president of the Linnsean and Zoological ...

... length, in 1851, the resignation of Lord J. Russell brought the Conservatives to the very gates of Downing- dominand after the Whigs had retained their offices for a 1ida'Tdfis'ef, %V lebruairy,1852, the Conservative chief, who meanwhilo'rage ha nd canddd ...

... found them un- prepared, but the genius of Mr. Disraeli was at least equal to an attempt at political lar- ceny. He found the Whigs bathing, and he tried to steal their clothing, by offering a Reform Bill of shreds and patches, so curiously contrived, that ...

... in 1851, the resignation of Lord J. Russell brought the Conservatives to the very gates of Downing- street; and after the Whigs had retained their offices for a year longer, in February, 1852, the Conservative chief, who meanwhile had succeeded his father ...