... old- fashioned Whigs of Mr. Gladstone's Ministry remains to be seen. -At all events, if they hang back, or show the slightest disposition to adopt a line of policy either stationary or retrogres- sive, out they must go. Although the Whig element largely ...

... Without them both himself and his Whig followers would still be in a minority, and in the cold shade of Opposition.' Would those votes and that sup- port have been accorded for the sole purpose of reinstating a few old Whig barnacles in office ? Certainly ...

... allowed to lecture us in the Times and elsewhere for many days past, the House of Commons is not at all like a House of ultra-Whigs. The temper and the numbers of the majority in the Matter of the monument to the Prince Imperial showed this in a strikingly ...

... morn live to find out, The ton3 o! the prime Ministor's npeech last night has bad au irritating effect on the Whigs, end esciaeiy on the Whig pears, and I should not be surprtsed i6 it will Cott him a few votes in the Houose of Llr3as ?? number of promises ...

... atrengthened by the attacks of the Whig, and the clear and convincing statement made In our presence by the much-abused Secretary of the County Down Constitutional Assoolation, who seems to be a thorn In the side of the Whig because he well and faithfully ...

... things) a small Whig secession. The Land Bill will pMS the Commons, but wi)I pasa it by narrow majorities—narrow, that is, for so large a party as ite Liberal party. The peers wit! take note of the Irish dissatisfaction and of the Whig secession. Lord ...

... to three prints. The new Whig Charter a demand for household county suffrage, for establishment °f county boards, and for the Modification of the law of entail. Beyond •hat the Edinburgh refuses to go. It calls upon tile Whigs to rally for the salvation ...

... possession of their homes, The motion was carried, Mr. Callan moved a lesolution that the Home Rulers should aet independently of Whig and Tory, and Mr. O'Connor Power, in seconding it, said Libemai members, haviag got seats through Irish interest, ti en denied ...

... not justified in likening the Whig of to-day to his predecessor of forty years back ? And as the Whig element predominates in Mr. Gladstone's Government, is it surprising that its Imish policy is identical with that of Whig Cabinets of the period I have ...

... commonly called Moderate Liberal. Preferring one syllable to six, and for other reasons, I would rather call them Whig. The question for Whigs is whether their principles and policy are best served at this juncture by voting against their party. The conclusion ...

... As at present constituted, the Cabinet con- L tains, in addition to the Premier, eight Whigs of whom five are peers; one Moderate Liberal, Mr. Forster, who is no Whig but is disowned i by the Radicals a representative of the old Radicalism in Mr. Brght ...

... PARLIAMEINTARY NOTES, THE DISTURBANCE'BILL. LI I believe it wvill be found that more than one of the .great Whig peers will separate themselves from the Government wvhen the Compensation for Disturbance Bill comes before the House of Lords. The fate of ...