... 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 ...

... for the people pretty much as it began. Both parties, Whigs andd Tories, are snarling at each other. The latter accuses the former of having promised economy and practised extravagance. And the Whigs. thus aaraipned reply that the extra- vagance laid to ...

... has become a placid, time-serving. Whig place-hunter. We are not aware if Sir Charles acceptt t-h political portrait thus drawn of him Times. If so, the electors of Chelseam y te themselves which they prefer the Whig or th Democrat P-the Sir Charles of ...

... with those of a few years back. They want the genuine ring of sincerity. The sentiments they contain might be uttered by any Whig placeman or flabby vestryman. Those working men who professed to re- cognise in the Sir C. Dilke of 1883 tho Sir Charles of ...

... introducing a measure he declined to support. The consequence was that he has ever since been left out in the cold whenever a. Whig Government had a plaee at its disposal. On the other hand the apostacy of Sir Charles was for himself in the right direction ...

... 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 ...

... were made comfortable all round, excepting to the taxpayers; particularly so in relationshlp to the national expenditure. Whigs and Tories were in accord on this matter. There existed a sort of tacit un- written compact and understanding between them ...

... long could a Whig Govern. ment last, although it only comprised a very moderate Radical element? It must inevitably crumble to pieces, and thenceforth the struggle at the hustings will Le not as heretofore between V hig and Tory, but Whig and itadical ...

... in the political com- mittee of the institution. They strove to thwart its original purposes, and bring it back into the old Whig ways of Brooles's or the Reform. Neither of these recognise the claims of the working classes to Parliamentary representation ...

... still cling to the hollow idea that the Whigs are a living force hi poli- tics. It is only about two yoars ago that, speaking on this subject, you said, I confess I am not diesatlifled with the position which the Whig party have in former times occupied ...

... not justified in likening the Whig of to-day to his predecessor of forty years back ? And as the Whig element predominates in Mr. Gladstone's Government, is it surprising that its Imish policy is identical with that of Whig Cabinets of the period I have ...