... lea, member for Dublin governs Ireland. The Whigs goverbl nothingd e Downing-street. The right honourable gentleman, the member fot Tamwooth, is contented with power without place or patronage, ard t rf Whigs are contented with place and patronage without ...

... have stood on end if you had assured him that lis sound Whig principles were simply a form of dogged Conservatlsmr? Was he not in favour of the Reform Bill, of free trade, and ot every accepted Whig shibboleth ? It was quite true, but it was equally trie ...

... attack; made upou them had appeared the Edinburgh under the title of '• Plain Whig Principles. The editor laid down a number propositions which were jt plain, and which were not Whig, and which were only conspicuous for the absence of any principle at all ...

... his reference to Mr. Gladstone as the chief whose leadership is proud to follow. It showed that saving instinct by which the Whig aristocracy have managed, amid changes which have amounted to little less than a revolution, to preserve themselves and their ...

... WEDDING. But there, thank goodness gracious, I've got to the end of two paragraphs, and I haven't said a word about all the old Whig boobies who are getting into office. And I'm safe for a line or two, because I must say something about Freddy's wedding, seeing ...

... steps. And- what's worse, no end of great people have resigned with him. Weeping awful weeps, I give their names. Oh, ye .Whigs-ye Whigs, how coul1d yeP Moll Flanagan, Illustrious Bottiewasher, Windsor. Jack Stuhb's, Coder Coachmnan, Osborne. Susan Topper ...

... . (By all Old Blue.) In spite of respectable gias And legalised cabs, the fight o'er is: And Dizzy,avbo ones dished the Whigs,- Has now, woe isnio, dished the Tories. DIZZY's DICTUM, WITIH PUNCH'S POSTSCILIPT.-'The world is governed by Sovereilns ...

... temporane6us history. And so I think all members homeward tripping Had better to St. Stephen's quick be slipping; Let's hear what Whig and Had., left wing, and Tory, Intend-to do with that dread man, O'Rory, And stop the panic -which weak nerves is frying, By ...

... whose beauty wins the hand of a Cabinet Minister: and because the leading Tory lady is his friend, and because the leading Whig lady loves him. The second great principle is seemingly a little inconsistent with the first, and is thus expressed, sweepingly ...

... undoubtedly the concluding one, enti- tled Plain Whig Principles. In it the programme of the Liberal Party is, for the first time since Mr. Glad- stone's defeat in 1874, definitely propounded by the Whig official organ. It has long been apparent to dispas- ...

... energy he displayed, and by adroitly taking advantage of circumstances, lie gained greater advantages for England than his Whig predecessors had gained by the long and bloody Crimean War. And even if, by this time, the glory of the treaty has faded because ...

... the Covenant lectured in vain. And even bis enterprises sank into commonplace besido those of the two Princes of Wales whom Whigs truly called Pretenders. Charles Edward, as he was when he fought at Preston Pans, and was turned back by timid folly from ...