... with the Reform Bill of 1832, and the essential weaknesses of Liberalism are distinctly traceable in the Whig party under Fox. In 1717, tbe Whigs had comfortably settled into office for 25 years. Although the language of Hampden and Pym was ever in their ...

... the case of Mr. Whig, Mr, Battiaeombe aaid tbe claim was for £16 135. 10d>, part of which be disputed. Hie client bad six notices served upon bim, wbieh amounted to the above sum, and he only acknowledged holding five allotments. Mr. Whig was then put in ...

... a bad Whig policy or not. (Cries of Shame.) But as he had, through his political career, disregarded ail consequences that might follow from doing the duty of an Irishman, he intended 1 to sp ...

... eoalitioas between Whigs and Protectionists was forming in his ingenious Tprnd However, the Bill passed its second reading by a majority of 88. Then occurred a mart remarkable series of man ae uvres. The O'Conne Uite s, with many Whigs and m few Protectionists ...

... all right when he does come, If he be a Whig born to lead. Radicals will gladly moderate the ardour of their seal for the time being — presumably until they have educated their leader. If he be a Radical, Whigs will doubtless be content to move a little ...

... to ask them to put their county in line with the rest of Ireland, and save the Land Leagurers the disgrace of supporting a Whig and Ministerial condidate. There was an old say- ing that a living donkey was more powerful than a dead lion, and so the present ...

... points the programme which had been put forward by snch authority as that of th- Whigs shonid the country entrust them with power. Bnt that was nut tbe programme which the new Whig or Liberal Government wonld have to carry out. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) ihe ...

... satisf tctorr pledge, with reference to Hem* Rule Pj o ther national demands. Should a* acceptable Sdidate be found, or no Whig pledge given, they -sill ?? influence in favour of Sir G. Elliot. I_tos.-WLr. Herbert Gladstone was nominated and _tarted unopposed ...

... said that when in 1858 tbere was a great defection of Radicals on the Con- spiracy BiU, and in 1866 a great defection of Whigs on the Reform BiU, from the day the catastrophe hap- pened matters began to mend for the Liberal party, the reason of which ...

... an exclusive Whig gathering, limited in number. It i. hardly likely that Mr. Gladstone's throat will be sufficiently recovered to allow bim to speak, and Lord Hartington will reappear probably for tbe laat time as the leader of tbe Whigs. Mr. and Mra ...

... taking heart, may bar the way, whilst the Whig members of the Lower House may band together for good to resist to the death the encroachments of the Premier's aggressive Radicalism. It is true that the Whigs, the Irish irreconcilables, and the Conservatives ...

... of the Whig party, which he ft und was not so much a history as a Lauda- tion of the YVhig party, written by a very ardent Whig. At the very commencement the author of this book found himself .in a difficulty. He dated the origin of the Whigs from the ...