... unreal ; or as a counterpoise to the influence of such men as the Duke of Argyll, whose more moderate opinions and antiquated Whig prejudices are too Conservative for the present day. On the former supposition, the member for Birmingham will attend at the ...

... of the Public Worship Facilities James made an announcement which he deemed to be of Commons. The contest is not with the Whigs. Many Bill carried by Mr. Salt through the House of Commons the first importance. It is well known that consumption of them ...

... is the result of the revision at Devonport : Total objections, 232; Whigs expunged, 74; Conservative ditto, 74; Whigs retained, 32; Conservative ditto, 95; withdrawals, 17. The Whigs objeeted to a considerable number of new voters without ascertaining ...

... excused for indulging somewhat enthusiastically in their new political life. He was quite sure, too, that many oldfashioned Whigs of the Palmerston school recognised the fact that the Liberalism which they bad preferred in their youth was to be found not ...

... between what our contemporary, the Daily News, tells us may be called the Left Centre of Parliamentary life, midway between Whig traditions and the Peelite caution on the one hand and ultra• Radical ideas and aims on the other. Mr. Bright is, we are glad ...

... News is authorised to state that the rumour is without foundation, and that it is his intention to solicit re-election. The Whig party in Stirling,shire have induced Sir Willi:kin Bruce, But., of Stenhouse, near Falkirk, to contest the county at the general ...

... anecdote of the assistance which Fox derived from the fair Duchess whose presence in the byways of Westminster enabled the great Whig to carry the election against the combined influence of Court and Crown. Human nature is the same now as it was then, and it ...

... however revolutionary, which might promote the welfare of the people. These were called at one time (and indeed are still) Whigs, a word also of uncertain origin. The names of the two parties are now Conservative and Liberal, and their differences are ...

... resources of electioneering strategy, in wire-pulling, in the dexterous playing of local and personal influences, in bringing Whig small talk and Radical claptrap to bear upon the recalcitrant or the unruly voter. Captain Hayter's return was creditable to ...

... that the success of Captain Hayter was entirely due to superior electioneering tactics, and to the ready versatility of the Whig-Radical candidate's pledges and opinions on certain critical questions. Still less could other and obvious explanations of ...

... usually reiterate the stale old taunt that the Conservative Opposition have no policy of their own. That was the cry of the old Whig party fiveand-thirty years ago, when the popular enthusiasm for the Reform Bill was exhausted, and the public were weary of ...

... all along repudiated, no one could deny them the praise of a very Machiavellian intelligence. But no one believes it. The Whigs and their political congeners are not the stuff out of which sincere revolutionists are made. They are not in that position ...