... regarding each other with increas ing coldness. The Whigs would unanimously support the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, whereas the Radicals consider that the proposal is a mere revival of despotism. The Whigs, while anxious to do justice to the Irish peasantry ...

... THE WHIG MUTINY. LORD LANSDOWNE'S retirement from the post he has held for a few weeks in the Government is a small affair; but it is one of several straws which show how the wind blows just now. The Whig members of Parliament who got themselves elected ...

... THE WHIGS. TO Sir,—l shall feel obliged to you if you will allow me to reply in a few words to the remarks you have recently published on the relations of the %\ big and the Radical members of the Liberal party. The Whigs have cordially supported and ...

... THE OLD WHIGS. The Speciator declares that this caste are not 018 living under an illusion as to their power resistance, but as to the object of attack. Nobody, least of all this Cabinet, is threaten'n‘rwhlnd. The first object of them all to enfrauchise ...

... THE WHIGS FOILED. There are in the Irish Parliamentary party some three or four gentlemen whose efforts are mainly employed to bring about a union between the Whigs and the Home Rulers; in fact, to dish Home Rule. Mr. Purnell has accordingly devoted a ...

... WHIG OR RADICAL ? Lord Ramsay has surrendered at discretion. Havin gone so far, in his address to the electors of Liverpool, as to promise to support a motion for inquiry into the demands the Irish people for local government, it was but a little step ...

... 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 ...

... THE GOVERNMENT AND THE WHIGS. THE cheers which marked the passing of the Irish Compensation Bill through committee signalised a distinct triumph of the Government, not only over the regular Opposition, but over the recalcitrant and disconted members among ...

... AND TORT. Si,—You are only partially right as to the etymology of Whig and Tory, on page 391 of TRUTH. The terms were known as slang terms applied to minor factions, as early as the days of Queen Elizabeth, but became the political names for the two ...

... THE ATTITUDE OF THE WHIGS, The Spectatorsa.yß It is with certain melancholy, rather than annoyance, that we regard the present attitude and the possible future action of the Old Whigs. Of the twenty-two Liberals who voted against that bill, and the fifty ...

... shown, not only to render loyal and hearty support to those Whig leaders of to-day who have personally fought on the people's side, but also to give opportunities to the descendants of former Whig leaders to win their spurs in the great cause in which their ...