... fortunes of the Government are to be repaired is remarkable for its simplicity. A new alliance is to be patched up between the Whigs and the Conservatives. The basis of the pact is to be moderation. Forbearance and respect for family influence and property ...

... greater prescience than other people, but the contingent programme which, as a moderate Liberal, he propounds to an exclusive Whig constituency, commends itself as a wise and convenient one, under conditions extremely probable. In the clever and successful ...

... that the present policy of the Ministry is to abandon the Radicals, as quietly as may be, and effect a fusion between the Whigs and Conservatives, preserving the personal leadership of Mr. Gladstone, Lord Granville, and the Marquis of Hartington, and ...

... THIRD PARTY. A tertiary formation composed of worn-out Radicals and exhausted Whigs is not a very promising discovery for the political geologist. A dilapidated middle-class Whig of the economic species, who thirty years ago might have been an advanced Liberal; ...