... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... and. many-sided a candidate must necessarily own a rather plastic creed. What, indeed, are the paltry issues pending between Whig, Tory, and Radical compared with the vital question whether Mr. Reel shall or shall not be one of our imperial legislators ...

... and settled State a wise statesmanship endures the evils it cannot cure without exasperating their malignancy. Policy, in the Whig-Radical vocabulary, means destruction, and No Policy means practical improvement without organic change. A negative policy ...

... 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 ...

... debated on the Boulevards. It may be assumed, therefore, that this year the vital question at the polling places will be that of Whig versus Tory, and Conservative against Radical. It remains only for Tories to accept the situation and make the most of it. ...

... with remarking that if Mr. Gladstone had desired to strengthen the moderate element in his Cabinet, he would have called in a Whig, all whose programme is exhausted, not a Radical of the Radicals, all whose programme will take thirty years of incessant agitation ...

... instituted between English statesmen and the celestial bodies. Mr. Gladstone is, of course, compared to , l the sun, and the Whigs may be interested to hear that Mr. Bright shares the compliment, and rides in his own solar chariot side by aide with his august ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...