... enough of late years to be tolerably familiar. Lord Derby's Government was got out of office by purely factious combination ef Whigs, Peelites and Radicals, agreed in nothing save in their hatred of the Tory party. Lord Palmerston and Lord Russell had long ...

... caucus—have lost no time in choosing their man. He is Lord Ramsay, a politician, according to antecedents, of the moderate Whig school. It is very clear that Lord Ramsay will have to render his principles more elastic than they are supposed to be if he ...

... was carried. Mr. Callan moved, and Mr. O'Connor Power seconded a resolution, that the Home Rulers should act independently of Whig or Tory. The motion was carried. The meeting was afterwards made private, to make the usual party arrangements for the Session ...

... of Sir Hennikeb is, we may venture to hope, sign that the tradition which has made the Registror-GenoralV. office a purely Whig-Radical preserve is about to be broken down. Ever since that department of the public service was created it has been worked ...

... after all, tedious, yet in spite ot this drawback there were t points worth attention. It was well known h *i day of tho Whigs pure and simple was gone. e ii either been frightened by Mr. Gladstone into C° y t] vatism, or they had turned Radicals— * ...

... classification under this head. The fact is forcing itself on public attention that t here be any such persons in existence as Whigs or Moderate Liberals, they are to be found outside the ranks those aspiring to be politicians. The great Liberal party seems ...

... statesman would vote for the inquiry. He believed Lord Ramsay did not intend Ireland to have Home Rule, which was admitted by both Whig, Radical, and Tory, to be a great piece of folly. They were tricking the poor Irish people ; but he trusted to the good sound ...

... it stands, and opposed to revolutionary innovations, they would have found iv Lord Ramsay, the descendant of a staunch old Whig family, the very man joyfully to support their views. The Conservative and Liberal candidates would then havo vied each with ...

... Irish Home Rule. Every effort was made to secure the return of the Liberal candidate, who even went the length of abjuring the Whig principles which he was educated, in order to catch the Irish Home Rule vote. Tho whole force of modern ultra-Radicalism was ...

... an unknwn visitor, delivered a political address,and Mr. T. Cave fellow ed with review recent legislation, as viewed through Whig- Radical spectacles. ...

... Telegram. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1880 The ignominious defeut of Lord Ramsay, at Liverpool, carries with it many useful morals. The Whig candidate stooped not to conquer, hut to h« vanquished. Lord Ramsay, departing from the traditions of his house, and of the ...

... this eclipse of patriotism, and it is possible that opinion will soon be equally disturbed by the unlucky alliance which the Whig party does not hesitate to contract to-day on the electoral ground—we are aUuding to its coalition with the Home Rulers. And ...