... WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12. THE WHIG-RADICAL MANIFESTO. Lord HAnTINGTON'S speeches in Lancasbire, and of Mr. GLADSTONE'S eleetioneering address to the chair- man of the. Midlothian Liberal Association are, in di themselves, sufficieni indications of the general ...

... either Whigs or Tories ever took up parliamentary reform as a question of principle. When the Whigs had got possession of the great borough interest the Tories were parliamentary reformers; when the borough interest passed to the Tories the Whigs were ...

... reform is to associate with the name Whig notions which only became connected with it a century later. This, as Professor Seeley truly says, is a fundamental point. If the modern Whigs are Reformers and the ancient Whigs are not, we may surely say that the ...

... asked, and which has usually been answered on the part of the Whigs by an adhesion to the theory that it is ' better to reign ia hell than serve in heaven.' But unfortunately for the Whigs, that answer is no longer possible. They may be there, but they ...

... The Whigs tried to carry a Peerage Bill, which would have turned the House of Lords into a close oligarchy, and the Tories prevented them. The Tories would have increased the number of county members, and the Whigs resisted the attempt. The Whigs invaded ...

... The Whigs tried to carry a Peerage Bill, which would have turned the House of Lords into a close oligarchy, and the Tories prevented them. The Tories would have increased the number of county members, and the W\higs resisted the attempt. The Whigs invaded ...

... the change would Stop. Are the Radicals or the Whigs the more likely of the two to be dis- appoinited? and which of them would be in the better position to make its disappointment transient ? If the Whigs found that the change did more th1an they expected ...

... finally exploded in the year I have already named with a shock that destroyed the Whig party. The reason is perfectly well known to all students of the period. The Whigs resolved to make all government impos- sible unless the King would place himself in ...

... bearing the names of towns devoted to Lerd Beaconsrield, they carry a. condensed history of his political somersaults—Chartist Whig 18 ...

... cheers for Besoonsfield ! Solioit all frienda to support Wortley. The Whigs or Gladstone would never bave done this. They have always crushed ?? and Irich, too. Let them rembmber the Whig Clarendon and heroic Mitchel. The association, in accordance with ...

... Butt, and favour of tenure, education, return of the grand jury laws, and Catholic university. will act quite independently Whig Tury, and thoroughly for Home Rule. Lord Henry Bruce has written to the local Conscrvativs Association tuat, as man of honour ...

... voters or Radical membeers of parlia- ment. This support of Radicalism must be paid for by an acknowledgment on the part of Whig leaders that Radical measur*as well as Liberal ones will be inscribed on the sessional banner. Unfortunately, up to the present ...