... Harting- ton-the representative of an old Whig family- for the leader of such an aimless, purposeless, Policy-shorn party as that which Mr. Gladstone has made of the once powerful Liberals. This choice of a mild Whig reflects very clearly the present set ...

... not to be 'trusted to n select him. So, it is left to a Committee of Whigs, n mixed out a little with Democrats of the harmless type a who, sitting round a table with gentlemen Whigs, have not the courage of their opinions. The consequence is that each ...

... agitation are , Disestablishment and the Labourers' Suffrage, and on these two points they are left alone by the Whigs, and the patrician Whig leader, the Marquis of Hartington, took an early opportunity, after his elevation to the head of his party in the ...

... take this as our text, what a comment does such a resolution as that of Lord Hartington afford. Now, as a member of an old Whig family, the noble Lord must know very well that the British Constitution does not lend itself to such crude and violent changes ...

... hopeful, cheerful candidate, Is not yet over. The victory is not won; The smallest act must not be left undone, Because the Whigs are in tremendous fettle, Which ought to put us Tories on our mettle! And quite right, too; for those who wish to keep Their ...

... thoroughgoing defender and enthusias- tic advocate of the Turk has been Sir Henry Elliot, one of the staunchest Whig members of one of the staunch. est Whig families. So strong is the feeling in the breasts of certain well- known Liberals that it has led to a ...

... Sir Robert Peel into a Free-trade ?? servative, with Lord Palmerston into a Conservative Liberal, with Lord Russell into a Whig, and of his own sweet will into a pronounced Radical, the right ho toor- able gentleman has set his sails to every wind by ...

... Club are dead against the christening of the Institution after the head of the great Whig family, and none the less so since the heir-apparent, to the famous Whig Duke. dlome has become the Liberal leader in the Commons. An Irishman in any way associated ...

... all times had certain funcions to perform in our po. B litical bistory: they have always actod as a stimulus to E tho Whigs. Tbe Whig-Liberals could no more do 3 without the fillip which Radicalism adds to their organ. ieation than t habitual nipper of ...

... complaints of the doings of the Episcopal nominees of Mr. Gladstone ; and yet be- cause he followed, the 'example of another little Whig boy 'who bchalked -up No Popery, and ran away and chalked up No Coercion, and then skedaddled with- out fighting the Bill ...

... forced him into the groves of statesmanship. His position, as the scion of one of the greatest and most influential of the old Whig families, did the rest, and here he is, in the place which, next to that of the Premier, is in a sense, the most important ...

... Elliot is the very type, the shining example, of a Whig diplomnatist. All his family, all his domestic relations, his extraction and his prosperous career are of the Whig stamp; his brother is the Whig Earl Minto, his sister is the second wife of Earl ...