... either to toil or to ! spin. The Liberalism of Tories, and not unfreqnently of I Whigs too, is, I think, of a very questionable character. I That happy family of Tory, Whig, and Radical j Unionists have been remarkably liberal of late in their united and ...

... for the Cobden banquet. On this the Whigs took offence. Their high-mightinesses objected to sitting down to dinner with this sound and stalwart Certainly the gulf is widening and deepening between the ancient Whig party and the Liberals of to-day. They ...

... improvement, and consequently they endured a long while. (Laughter.) The Whig doctrines had to be found by gl ,ir,g back, for to-day the Whigs had no doctrines—they only had habits. The Whig doctrine was that the people weie the masters in this country. He admitted ...

... go to pieces. Sir Wm. Harcourt and his Whig allies may, perhaps, imagine that the Radicals will accept the old distinction between Brahmins and Pariahs, and that the Radical Pariahs will consent to allow the Whig Brahmins to occupy office, and to emasculate ...

... followers and admirers are elated even beforehand. But what a medley of muddle-headed politicians will tbe gathering ! The Whig leader is now almost, if not wholly, as popular with the Tories as the Lord of Hatfield himself ; and lor the simple reason ...

... Gladstone, our leader, Mr. Labouchere replied the recent utterances- of Lord Hartington Liverpool, and expressed the hope that Whigs like Lord Hartington had been lost to the Liberal party for ever. Jn replying to the toast Our Indian fcllow-subjects, Mr ...

... from the liberal party, and maintained that inasmuch as the Whig connection had derived its force from the popular support. Liberal Unionists would henceforth be out of the fight. If the Whigs joined the Tory I party the effect would be that of carrying ...

... embarrassment of those with whom it was allied. Two causes combined to keep up the fiction of the Whig party, and they were tacitly accepted as tha conditions the Whig-Liberal alliance. These were, first, that peculiar flunkeyism of tne English character which ...

... CORRESPONDENTS. G.S.—hi 1532 Mr. Disraeli canvassed High Wvcombo as an independent Radical, in opposition to Col. Orey. the Whig candidate, but he was defeated at the poll. The Ducks GnUtU of June 30th, 1832, says that Mr. Disraeli's principal supporters ...

... quite sure but Lord Salisbury, in his quiet moments, thinks that possesses the divine ujlatua under another name. Then, the Whigs—who are now as nearly extinct as the dodo—claim that Liberalism and Liberal ideas are, or ought be, deducible by evolutionary ...

... tell us the precise way in which the political parties of to-day came to be divided into Tories, Whigs, and Radicals ? What is a Tory ; what constitutes a Whig ; and what makes a Radical ? The general election is coining. Let those of our readers who will ...

... Thursday, Hulton n day, Airton; Thursday, Nappa Bar- all at 11-0. _ s ' SIR C. Id-:-; ait us.— Monday, East lieslorton ; a Th whig—both at 11-4:>. _.. He* 1 V vi.c or LIN- -Monday, Clapham Station ; r' lu ' Village-Ikitli at 10-40. ...