... confront to-day in practical politics is the coercion and dragooniug Whig-gery of the plesent Goverment. Wo are not afraid .of the Tories. They can't hurt us now. But we are afraid of the Whigs; and this is a great opportunity for showing Ulster Whiggery that ...

... the Monarob, the' great Whig familieai.engreoaO p11, power.,- By the easy method, of represeating their opponents as Jacobites, they kept in their own .hands all the power of the Sovereign. The ideal governnmet t of the Whigs was, as Lord Beaconsfiela ...

... such as yet has never been dreamed of in the philosophy of the Whig party. I think in the same way the member for Newcastle, when he foretold to his- noble friend the extinction of all great Whig land- owners, was conscious that perhaps something like a cold ...

... had. sat in the last Parliament, end Mr. Leader; and the Whigs a Mr. Tower (whose son now lives at Weald Hall, Brent- wood), and Mr. Disney, who weredesignated by the Tories as delegates of the Whig Club of Mahlons, and nomicees r of the Government. Very ...

... with the Unionist Committee, upon electoral matters. In the course of the day the noble Lord received visits from a number of Whig politicians, including Mr. Gosohen, Sir Henry James, Mr. H. Brand, and Mr. Albert Grey. The Central News learns that some ...

... largely repre- sented in any Cabinet that might be formed. Whatever else might happen, the spoils were to go the victors; and the Whig element was to remain as a useful, but henceforth, a subordinate ally. At present, how- ever, there are no indications of a ...

... formation of his Cabinet, when he finds how the current is setting. The new Ministry contains the names of members of the old Whig party as far as the appointments have yet been made. Mr. Gladstone again doubles the part of First Lord of the Treasury and ...

... the better and the - Radical- for the worse, but the Whigs had changed. In the days of Lord Russell and Lord Palmerston the bc Whigs undoubtedly possed sound political wisdow; in tic those days the Whigs dominated the Radical parqy-now w, the position was ...

... going on between the Radical branch and the old aristocratic Whig section. But the times have changed, and the chief quarrel is no longer upon those lines. Be- tween the aristocratic Whigs and the Radical3 there is, undoubtedly, a most strangely marked ...

... resign would be the alienation of Whigs-and pro- bably of moderate Liberals-from the Radi- cal body. It is said by the Liberals that the Whig party would not associate itself with the Conservative principle,\ but as the Whigs would hardly attempt to form a ...

... is absent, nud the places are snpplied by ' aspiring under- secretaric' andi wholly untried men with a sprinkling of old Whigs of approved docility. As a rule, the ap- psintinwnts seem to have been left to the purest chance. On no other principle, at ...

... have been proposed by Radical leaders and ap- plauded by the Radical rank-and-file-the ten- dency of moderate Liberals and Whigs has been to become more moderate, until the line . which divides them from modern Conserva- tives is well-nigh mathematical ...