... superficial knowledge of the question. We read also of the shamelessness of the Foreign Secretary, and the petty malice of a Whig.— Tines, 1885. LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL SLANDERS GENERAL GORDON. Gordon declared unfit. incompetent, and bereft of ream*. This ...

... Advanced Lam rals to save for the time the English Establi.hrnent, while sacrificing that of Scotland, in order to keep the old Whigs going, will be now of little avail. The violence of Church defenders, and particularly the wrath of the Bishops, will force ...

... they contended during these centuries, you have only to look into history. By looking thus into history you will find that the Whig party have pushed on change and reform, and that the 'fury party have steadily resisted and striven to hold back reform--(hear ...

... what Mr Gladstone had done for them, but that they know they must keep agitating else they would get nothing more, for the Whig and Tory landlords would prevent anything being done for them if they were quiet. As for the hover classes, the ignorant section ...

... borough. The young Radical party, which was then feeling its way to the front and annoying rather than alarming the Moderate Whigs, wanted a more lively candidate, and their choice fell upon one whose name is now on the lips of the nation—Mr Joseph Chamberlain ...

... by the Duke of Richmond are advocating this course, and are denouncing any idea of Home Rule, and calling piteously on I,he Whigs not to permit anything of the kind. Lord Randolph Churchill is ominously silent, as he usually is when crossed by the section ...

... truth is they have (and always with an ill grace) favogied reform to save their own political existence, just to dish the Whigs, or to discomfit the Radicals. It is the merest political hypocrisy and cant for Tories to say that they have ever favoured ...

... the Liberal scheme. The better plan was judged to be to decline any attempt at dealing with the question, and to rely on the Whigs to prevent the Liberals doing so. It was during this controversy that the Standard produced the scheme alleged to have been ...

... correspondent and still more pnvate sources that we are on the eve of a more formidable strike against rent than we have yet seen. Whig principles have always made me favourable to the policy of redressing grievances concurrently with carrying out the law, and ...

... not give the cost price. The farmers outcry has now no bounds. The deluded Tory kind are lucking for protection, while the Whigs are looking fur better seasons and sower rents, which must come as it is needless to look for higher prices either for grain ...

... which Liberals can object in loin; and even if they do, the Conservatives reckon on the support of a sufficient number of Whigs to prevent defeat. More likely, however, the measure will be read a second time without opposition. In Committee the Liberals ...

... that may influence English public opinion in regard to the question. If the Government get any appreciable support from the Whigs they will try soother dissolution should they be defeated in their attempt to carry their Coercion Bill. Meantime the announcements ...