... for it showed that victory was not only possible but near. While the Tories are only mutter- ing about convenience, and the Whigs are retreating out of the way, the liberals, through Mr. Trevelyan, Mr. Fawcett, and above all Mr. Bright, are pressing home ...

... Tariff Bill into the Indian Legislature at Simla employed an argument which has had the honour of being borrowed by some of the Whig peers who assisted at the birth of English free trade. The duty, he urged, is harmless, because the Bombay cotton mills only ...

... good-hulmnoured spirit ; it contains a good many capital anecdotes ; anti it w ill preserve the traditions of one of the best old Whig families in Ergland. . . . These reminiscences have the charnn and flavour of personal expericnce, and they bring us into direct ...

... Gladstone's action, and it is barely possible, though not perhaps very likely, that he may one day stun Conservatives, vex Whigs, delight Radicals, and perplex the mass of the people, by fighting a triangular due], in which he would shoot at the friends ...

... acted up to it by joining the ranks of the unpopular minority. By so doing he incurred the displeasure of the leaders of both Whigs and Tories but at the same time he laid the foundation of that trust and confidence which was afterwards reposed in him by ...

... The Nationalist journals-not alone the rabid Dublin weekly newspapers but provincial papers which a few years ago were quiet Whig or Gladstonian organs-are not less outspoken. In one of these we see it stated that the escape of the prisoners has given ...