... severity; and he adds that under the Whigs it was carried out with a degree of cruelty that marks it as the blackest page in the records of persecution. The National debt was originally imposed in great part by the Whigs; but Mr. Lecky is amongst those who ...

... after all the Tories wvere no wosse than the Whigs. The Liberal leaders did not vote for the release of the Fenian prisoners. He therefore ad- vised the Irish electors not to consider the inte- rests of the Whigs and Tories, for neither had done anything ...

... be transferred to the Colonial Office, and that Lord Bury will become Under Secretary for War. Lord Bory was at one time a Whig, but at the last general election he threw in his lot with the Conservative party. He has been distinguished for the strong ...

... defend him. It was expected in the 'ouse that he would have been defended by Mr. law, Mr. Cogan, The O'Conor Don, or some other Whig follower of Lord Hartington, but no one offered a single observation. The Speaker did al be could to assuage the boiling i ...

... trust that the Ulster members will be in their places. There is nothing political in the matter, and we hope, therefore, that Whig and Tory will join cor- dlially and unanimously in baying a thorough sifting ofo the sorry affair, The Scotch members of Parlna1O:t ...

... by the weakness, d vacillation, and utter lack of statesmanship shown 8 .e by Disraeli and Lord Salisbury since. Thus, j n Whigs and Tories are equally conductin, } this kingdom to destruction;, our trade is dying, our honour is dead, our people are I ...

... motion were - Mr. Dickson, Mr. Law, Mr. Charles E. Lewis, MIr. D. Taylor, Mr. W. Whitworth, and Mr. Wil- son. Of ex-official Whigs seven were allowed, to vote for the bill, but they were easily swamped by the twenty-one paid members on the Ministerial benches ...

... navigation of the Black Sea, she * never would have dared to attok Turkey in 1877. The want ef capaity and cowardice of the Whigs haadestreyed Ottoman Power,andin all probability will lnd us ?? war. The greatest'filancial problem of the day is the price ...

... Britain. His lieutenants are Messrs. O'Donnell, Biggar, and O'Conner Power. These .geatlemea are cordially disliked by the Whig Home Rulers, who fear and mistrust them. Then again there is another sub-division, containing such men rs, Mr. Snllivan, Mr ...

... brother no one knows and nobody cares into what lobby they go, as they represent merely the very worst type of the old Irish Whigs, of which there are not more than about half a dozen left. The probability is that the next general election will reduce the ...

... fctur gentlemen (tellers incladed) who fol' a baose Mr. O'Donnell one woS a Welsh member, I Mr. S II. llssgh.'e, and two were Whigs, Mr. a aol andMr. Villiam Whitworth. The re- llaindor (41) prrofess to be Home Rulers, so E ait nni this occasion no more than ...

... justice and generosity f the Government than to accept any of the plausible, but thoroughly characteristic, snggestioys of the Whig ex Minister, whose failure at the Adniralty is one of the notorious events of ContcrncrarY history. In one of the daily papers ...