... party, the timorous and hesitating politicians who would have besn well content to remain Roman Catholic Liberals or even Whigs, but who to save their seats flung themselves into the current of popular folly in 1874, and pledged themselves. to a Federalism ...

... the path of progress has been proverbial; at any rate, ever since the famous occasion when the late Lord DERBY *dished the Whigs. The spectacle of a Liberal Opposition restraining the innovating impetuosity of a Conservative Govern- ment has since that ...

... of the two Houses to have their opinion reflected in the Executive Government has been finally settled. The fortunes of the Whig Ministries after the Reform Act prove that the persistent opposition of even an hereditary Upper House will in time wear out ...