... scared the Whigs into his, toils ; and of timid compliance, well enough befitting the decadence of a garrulous old age, but strangely out of keeping with the prestige of a great party. For themselves, their nonour, and their country the Whigs must rise ...

... the weakness and want of cohesion of the Liberal party. fact, cm longer be said that the party retains any concrete form. Whig atoms above the gangway may occasionally get fused with Radical atoms below it, but there is no union for the attainment common ...

... THE GLOBE, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1873. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. THE CLAIMS OF WHIG GOVERNMENT. The Saturday Reuiew says :— Year by year and Parliament by Parliament the Rouse of Commons tends to become more and more an assembly of men who in their different ...

... whole'strength of the Whig party. The Ballot, therefore, whatever else it did, would effectually dish the Whigs.” They have long been fading awav, something like the golden pippin. Mr. Thackeray said that though he often wished he was a Whig he never saw one ...

... of candidates that they were compelled to forego the gratification of running candidates against unpopular Whigs. The result was that several Whigs now represent what arc termed National constituencies, who might readily have been supplanted had eligible ...

... Saxon Parliament. The “patriots” are, of course, the party of action, and the renegades are the sham Home Rulers, who, being Whigs and temporisers, took the pledge as condition precedent to election, but who never intended, and do not now intend, to throw ...

... country that followed the Radical triumph. The Whigs were in. and the Tories were out, and agitation became a trade ; and the Radicals who had not ratted to the Whigs half repented of a victory which the Whigs had monopolised and absorbed. No Government ...

... heard in high places. The Times faithfully reflects the signs of the winter of political discontent. Au Independent and Whig bewail, in a series of dolorous strains, the disastrous condition of latter-day statesmanship. The leading journal takes ...

... Lowe's future Premier and chief, of cheering a rhetorician who was sitting for a Whig family borough, and giving utterance (in the disguise of a converted Radical) to an old Whig's timorous disgust at a threatened disturbance of the final settlement of ...

... 3 tolerated. Th 3 ine_timable boon of household suffrage which Mr; Disraeli gave the country in the teeth of the incapable Whigs and selfish Liberals in 1868, implies free exercise of the franchise. Each constituency has now a right to be represented according ...

... would not bow down to their behests in the way the Whigs were content to do. The consequence was, that when the new Parliament met, in 1835, at Westminster, the combined Opposition, composed of Whigs, Radicals, and Repeaters, outnumbered by a few votes ...

... were created and extinguished. And the Ministry of 1691, which contained Whig Lord Keeper, Whig Lord Admiral, and Whig Chancellor of the Exchequer, was also furnished with two Whig Secretaries of State, of whom “the conscientious Shrewsbury” was one. The ...