... party desires not only to give itself a name of honour, but to secure the further advantage of naming its opponents. Thus, the Whigs and Radical politicians decided upon the common term Liberal. It might be thought that, having decided upon this fancy title ...

... yesterday granted a conditional order for a new trial in the case of Stannus v. Finlay, the action for libel against the Northern. Whig by the late agent of the Hertford estates. The application was made on the ground of misdirection by Mr. Justice Whiteside ...

... the border line between local and general government by the encroachments of a centralising policy on the part of successive Whig Administrations. The line between local and national taxation is rigidly kept, but not that between local and national expenditure ...

... the first Conservative Cabinet after the Reform Act of 1832, the Tory party has held office for ten years, and the Liberals, Whig and Radical, for twenty-one years. Taking the estimates for the navy during this period of thirty-one years we may arrive at ...

... is by no means a sinecure. liberal journals of late years have apparently treated it as such. Probably, even in the pahniest Whig days, indifference and incompetence were seldom so conspicuously united in two Ministers in succession, and in the same office ...

... Cabinet of men of business, not of tribunes of the people, college tutors, philosophers, and dilelianti, witll sprinkling of Whig peers and noble patrons of democracy. Such, we should imagine, are the tastes of the Liverpool electors in the abstract. In ...

... quarter million less per annum than the professing economical Whigs, and this trifling annual saving of millions reckoned for 37 years makes up an amount of 47 millions to debit against Whig economy. Now then let us reckon the whole cost of our iron ...

... position of political parties. That position is both false and dangerous. We are not divided clearly into two great parties of Whigs and Tories, but among the supporters of the Government who sit opposite to us is a large body of gentlemen who are as much ...

... either redeem his promise to the Ultramontanes of Ireland, or sacrifice the Irish vote, it is imperative that disappointed Whigs, outraged Moderates, and disgusted Radicals should blend hand and heart in a new loving compact. Instead, however, of bowing ...

... old importance of that dignity when we remember how Lord Ellen. borough with difficulty obtained the ur be cause he was a Whig ; how great the effort made to give Erskine precede • *Rh' his silk even over Eldon; how bitterly Brougham felt the loss of ...

... consequences, but perhaps they will be more inclined to listen to a word of seasonable warning in future. Every return of a Whig by Conservative support is a weak sacrifice of principle, and truckling, however clever, seldom succeeds in the long run. IT ...

... vote on either side. The tendency of opinion was one way and the tendency of voting was the other. Go where one might—among Whigs or Tories, or any class of society—one rarely met a man of education having anything to lose who was not eminently Conservative ...