... note need not be said. Wherever it is heard we may discover an Old Whig-calmn and confident, placid and pretentious. Indeed, the purpose of this article is to explain that Whig- principles are not merely the only sound ones, but the only prin- ciples ...

... either Whigs or Tories ever took up parliamentary reform as a question of principle. When the Whigs had got possession of the great borough interest the Tories were parliamentary reformers; when the borough interest passed to the Tories the Whigs were ...

... reform is to associate with the name Whig notions which only became connected with it a century later. This, as Professor Seeley truly says, is a fundamental point. If the modern Whigs are Reformers and the ancient Whigs are not, we may surely say that the ...

... of the political world, has lately acquired new signi- ficance. If a reaction does not come to the Whigs, the Whigs may stimulate a reaction. The Whig party, during the period of its union with the Radicals, has played a very useful if not always a very ...

... The Whigs tried to carry a Peerage Bill, which would have turned the House of Lords into a close oligarchy, and the Tories prevented them. The Tories would have increased the number of county members, and the Whigs resisted the attempt. The Whigs invaded ...

... the Whig Ministry, and they bitterly denounced that secret proceeding. Who can doubt that had the Whigs in 1820 been the Ministers, and proposed the bill, it would have found as strenuous opposition from the Tories as this bill found from the Whigs ? ...

... ever volunteer his advice to dismember the empire? All the Whig attacks on the Tories were directed to the ill-treatment of our fellow-subjects and the mismanagement of the war : the Whigs would have been more kind rulers and better generals, but only ...

... The Whigs tried to carry a Peerage Bill, which would have turned the House of Lords into a close oligarchy, and the Tories prevented them. The Tories would have increased the number of county members, and the W\higs resisted the attempt. The Whigs invaded ...

... Mr. Wilson's pages the history of these Whig aberra- tions we are again and again reminded of the follies of our own Philo- Russian Liberals. The Czar Alexander is to them what Napoleon Bonaparte was to the Whigs of i8o8-a despot, but a benevolent despot ...

... contains five dukies of the United Kingdom, two of Tory and three of Whig creation. One'of the Tory dukedoms, however, is that of Wellington, in no sense a party creation. The Whig appetite for strawberry-leaves is therefore to the Tory in the ratio of ...

... the change would Stop. Are the Radicals or the Whigs the more likely of the two to be dis- appoinited? and which of them would be in the better position to make its disappointment transient ? If the Whigs found that the change did more th1an they expected ...

... service to him; for the above mistake does not prevent him from seeing, as logically it ought, that the pure Whig creed is essentially Conservative. Whig and Tory in the eighteenth century did really very often differ as Conservative and Liberal, notably so ...