... in hands-with blue blood in them_1 t'O en coronated Whigs, are to mark ties ed where such common clay as tenant farnte50 are made of must set their crosses upan e- the voting papers. iy Truly, the Whigs resemble the Bourton s, in this, that they have learned ...

... I THE DESERTION OF THE WHIGS. I The Whigs are rapidly deserting Mr. Glad- stone. The Marquis of Lansdowne has re- sirned the Under-secretarysbip of State for Iuidia, in consequence of the new complexion which has been Oiven to Mr. Forster's Com- pensation ...

... article in the Edinburgh Review which discourses on what the writer calls Plain Whig Principles, and in which advocates tho reconstitution of tho Liberal party on Whig basis. The article is an anachronism, for the Liberal party is already reconstituted ...

... power held as the Whigs hold it, solely by the tenure of their acres, and not by-the strength of their heads, is at the best a precarious possession. If every Whig left the House of Commons'to-morrow, and was followed by the Whig lords who sit in the ...

... introduced, will be found rather strong meat for the digestion of the Whig peers who form part of the present Administration. There will be a rupture in the Cabinet, peoplo say. The Whig Peers generally will retire from it. These eminent seceders will find ...

... scorn, which was common to all Whigs, the Radicals revenged themselves, however, by gradually bringing the name of Whig into discredit as that of a man who professed one set of principles and acted on another. The Whigs came to be considered the Jesuits ...

... of the alarm this Bill is said to have created amongst the great Whig , landlords. That there is sort of scare everybody can see who reads the newspapers. Day by day we have some new Whig nobleman, or some advocate of what may called the old-fashioned ...

... was pre-eminently a Whig Administration. In spite of the matters of common notoriety at which the Times darkly hints, has its character been changed since the Disturbance Bill was introduced? Lord Hartington is surely as sound a Whig as Lord Lansdowne. ...

... and the same may be said of Lord Hartington. And as for the Whigs maintaining themselves in office without the support of the Radicals, the thing would be impossible. As a party, the old Whig is, I believe, most obnoxious to the nation. And thus Mr. Gladstone ...

... be made, we shall have no hesitation in denouncing the whole affair as a mean, mniserable Whig job, once more displaying the servility and subserviency of Whig statesmen like Northbrook and Childers to the Court, and their utter disregard of the public ...

... 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 ...