... ministered. We confess ourselves astonished and shocked at this Whig jobbing of money which, above all others, ought to be held sacred. The most solemn oath is taken to its appropriation, and we cannot understand how a Secretary of State could sanction ...

... sword with which Mr. has attacked the Lords is two-edged, may be quite as readily turned against the “hnons. The Liberals and Whigs cheered the Pronjgr w hcu he raised the dangerous weapon a ’'ißt the Upper House j will they cheer him if, lu tb course his ...

... ent of the Manchester Guardian telegraphs:— Mr. Gladstone's speech the Mansion House dinner regarded as a challenge to the Whig Lords to acquiesce in the Queen's Warrant. If rumour speaks truly, there is little room for doubt to what the majority of them ...

... which has marked the session throughout, have done their work, and acted as powerful solvents on that once united phalanx. Old Whigs, advanced economists, enthusiastic young Kadicals, and disappointed Dissenters, have all in turn been taught either to tremble ...

... will well to offer to it » determined resistance. doubt there are cases in which the Ballot might expected to work well. Greet Whig landlords are proverbially more stringent in exacting political allegiance from their tenantry than Tories. The Ballot might ...

... Derby and Lord Lytton, who supported Government on the secoud reading of the bill, voted against them now, and almost nil the Whig peers repudiated the conduct Ministers resorting to Royal prerogative. In the House Commons the Government adhered to the last ...

... show how clearly tho Upper House understands and appreciates the sham enthusiasm of the Premier for the ballot. When only 48 Whig peers can be found to vote lor the great Government bill of the session there is plainly very little to be said in its favour ...

... enterprise. The system government which beet gave them the qualification* necessary for that, whatever name it might be called —Whig, Liberal, Eadioal, or Conservative—*a* th* form of government they wanted to support, and any government that did not satisfy ...

... a statesman at the head of affairs—it is indifferent to our present argument whether he Conservative or I Radical, Tory or Whig—who has no knowledge or power of the art of political management. for the excellence of his ends, we have nothing to say against ...

... generally t The Daily Mews admits the Liberal party has been unequivocally beaten in East Surrey. not suppose that many Whigs and Radicals in East Surrey have been transformed in three yean into Tories. The balance of parties is not affected by any ...

... originated with conclave at Whitehall, in order to preserve that agglomeration of power which has been for years accumulating under Whig administration in that locality: for centralisation appears to boonooftho loading principles of Mr. Gladstone’s Cabinet, and ...

... many electors from tha Liberal ranks. new defensive combination is in insensible course of gestation, that will draw together Whig and Tory, Liberal and Conservative, and Conservative-Liberal against the common enemy of the Constitution and the disciples ...