... any economy takes place in the public service it is pretty certain to begin at the wrong end. This has been the case with Whigs as well -as with Tories. When Mr. Gladstone's Government resolved upon curtailing the expense of the naval service it commenced ...

... strike us in looking back upon it. The founder of the system was looked coldly on even after his scheme had been adopted. The Whigs gave him a post somewhat grudgingly; but when the reaction of 1841 brought in the Conservatives, they at once turned him out ...

... before the country. This intense bitterness of feeling is characteristic of the break-up of a monopoly. If genuine hatred of Whigs, Liberals, and Radicals be sought for, it will be found in some survivor of a close municipal corporation now reformed or of ...

... merely party interests. Lord Beaconsfield has always blamed the settlement of 1832 as having been cunningly contrived to save Whig and to doom Tory boroughs. We need not go into the historic question. It is sufficient for our present purpose that Lord B ...

... life more sweet than that of liainted pomp. T'lis is not the tone in which the Duke bOMKRSfir seems disposed to address the Whig peers who have shared his banishment from official life. '.The spirit of detraction and disparagement pervades his pages. He ...

... real question (the Standard says) is, according to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, not whether England shall be governed by Whigs or Tories, but whether the English Empire and the peace of Europe shall be preserved. The questions at stake at the next general ...

... in the exigencies of the hour an imperative summons to the nation to return to plain Whig principles, and especially to restore its confidence to thoroughbred Whig statesmen, and to them alone. The advice is excellent in spirit, but it is somewhat out ...

... article in the Edinburgh Review which discourses on what the writer calls Plain Whig Principles, and in which advocates tho reconstitution of tho Liberal party on Whig basis. The article is an anachronism, for the Liberal party is already reconstituted ...

... of which could alone be relieved by an appeal to aimns. WHIGS AND RADICALS. The Daily T2elccrap/ observes that the Edinburgh Reviewee has come forward to define the position belonging to the Whigs, and seems feverishly anxious to exonerate that respectable ...

... less bright. Unhappily for England, no such signs are visible in any quarter. They cannot be discerned either among the pure Whigs at Wakefield or the Radicals at Birmingham; yet it is certain that, until questions deeply affecting not merely the future ...

... supposing that people were wondering hiar he (Sir William) got there. Perhaps they did not know that he swas one of those Whigs who passed a servile and abject life under the tyrmany of Mr. Cbtamberlain, the dragon of Birmingham, with whose name Tory ...

... peasantry of the West, was carried. Mr. Callan moved resolution setting forth that the Home Rule party should act independently of Whig and Tory. Mr. O'Counor seconded the motion, which was adopted. The School Board for London, at their weekly meeting yesterday ...