... THE WHIG CAVE. A good deal has been said and written on both sides to the defection of twenty-five independent” members from the Liberal ranks in the famous division on the 7th inst. As matter of fact, that defection was neither unforeseen nor wholly ...

... THE TRUE WHIG POLICY FOR IRELAND. CanilirnJgt Snkpcnfent SATURDAY, the 24th op April. The fundamental principle of Whiggisra, as it has been expounded by its ablest advocates from 1659 to the present day, is this :—To accomplish by means of wise and timely ...

... Liberal creed ? Yet Macaulay is sometimes held up as the typical Whig of the old school from whom your modern Radical is terribly degenerated. But he is typical Whig only because he is dead. “Whig” as a political term has been dropping out of use late years ...

... weakness of the Whig party—ome went over to Tories, and many m *re knew that Liberal Brty was not really the place for them and retired obscurity. Eighty-five old Liberals lost their seats at the last election, who may be roughly classified Whigs Liberals 31 ...

... The motive is too palpable. The Morning Post wonders what Ur. Davitt and Mr. Parnell * say ** little Whig treatment of tb Irish question,” tbe Whigs being, if any thing, much more detested the Irish Nationalists than the Tories themselves. Tbe Daily Chronicle ...

... Gladstone remains master of the situation. There are not a dozen * Cave Whigs in the House of Commons who would not fall into line were there defection. The numerical strength of the Cave Whigs is singularly over-rated, and far too much deference is paid to their ...

... as to the •liH-vnient of t*»» Whigs and the supremacy of the Radical party. lam not, gentlemen, very much concern-d at the prosy:-t of those taunts and gibes. I confes- fam not c*’ satisfied with the part which the Whig party hive *•* former times occupied ...

... should support the Whig Party. Earl Spencer let Myles Joyce hanged, though Joyce protested with his dying breath was innocent; snd that waa done to please English Whigs. He would therefore ask them not to support either Tories or Whigs, but stand to their ...

... only of the Liberals but especially of the Whigs. It was a noble th on the part of Burke and Fitzwilliam and the other seeders from Fox that not all their horror of France ould make them untrue to Ireland. The Whig party after the schism remained for Irish ...

... it is just as true and as valuable for those Liberals who are usually called Whigs as it is for those who are usually called Radicals. It is just as much the duty of the Whigs to give way and to refrain from acting independently as it is the part of the ...

... a vastly increased influence from the defection of Dissentient Whigs. Whilst adjuring the Whigs to become Tories, Professor Dicey says that the “drag theory” has failed, and that the Whigs have failed to restrain the Liberal army and to retard reforms ...

... measure of Rule is their own aflairs, a ther | will be made to the constitucac’es esom the c1 would be the of an} larg nat Whig revolt, but we eee ne cause for grave u pt oe as vo the result of a disselution in t ¢ of the The frish Times believes that ...