... regarding each other with increas ing coldness. The Whigs would unanimously support the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, whereas the Radicals consider that the proposal is a mere revival of despotism. The Whigs, while anxious to do justice to the Irish peasantry ...

... future to formal separation. In the first place, if the Whigs dissent to some extent from the Radicals, it does not follow that they agree in all essential respects with the Tories. The words Whig and Tory still represent a real difference not only of ...

... Whigs and Radicals.-- During the last week or two we have heard hardly anything of those dissensions in the Tory party about which Lord Randolph Churchill had so much to say. Whether or not there were serious differences of opinion among Conservatives ...

... The Whig Attitude. -There is something pathetic in the pose of the leading Whigs, as they mournfully protest that, although they could not join the Government, they nevertheless remain as robust as ever in their Liberalism, and most devoted followers ...

... in home and foreign policy was imperatively required, and the Whig principle that there was to be no breach of political continuity. Thus they fought the Boers in order to please the Whigs, and gave them their liberty in order to please the Radicals ...

... THE DIFFICULTIES WHIG ORATORS._ Well, no - W - w - e - lizi - v - e - haii iiite r :cli - e - ofe - ;i7 7 di - tie . ;:eniland from a different quarter. As a kind of homage to etiquette, Whig orators always begin by abusing me; but, when they have got ...

... THE WHIG MUTINY. LORD LANSDOWNE'S retirement from the post he has held for a few weeks in the Government is a small affair; but it is one of several straws which show how the wind blows just now. The Whig members of Parliament who got themselves elected ...

... WHIGS - - was then the term of reproach cast upon the persecuted. ThiF) some think, arose from the word wigg, applied to the thin Skimmed milk they were glad to drink in their wanderings. Others allege that it was an abbreviation of Whiggamores, as the ...

... Im Ireland at ‘this moment the word “ Whig ” means something quite different. There Mr. Gladstone is a Whig, Mr. Chawmberlain is a Whig, Mr, Cowen is a Whig, Mr. Je-se Collings is a (Vi‘ig. Everybody is a Whig who has anything to do with a ...

... 11 the Liberals, hut especially of the Whigs. It was a noble thing on the part of Burke and Fitzwilliatn and Jaz Aber !seeders from Fox that uot all their horror France could make them untrue to Ireland. The Whig Party after the remained for Irish purposes ...

... THE WHIGS. the brilliant article in the current number of the Quarterly Review entitled Disintegration, ** the following passage the attitude of the Whig section of the Liberal party appears The question naturally suggests itself, what motive can men ...

... WHIGS, ...