... THE POSITION OF THE WHIGS. SATURDAY was a Whig field day, big speeches being made by Lord Derby at Blackburn, Mr. Goschen at Edinburgh, and Lord Hartinaton at Rawtenstall. We group below the most important utterances, from one speech or the other, un ...

... ipolitical immo- ralityv' in not carrying out in office, the criticisms he had made in Opposition, and an attack on the .Whigs for their cold criticisms. METHINKS THE MARQUIS DOTH PROTEST TOO Ml1UCH. On the former subject Mr. Chamberlain spoke as ...

... success. Dr. Cameron described the measure as dishing the Scotch Whigs. As Dr. Cameron says so it is not for a Southron loon to deny the existence of such a class; but Vf any Scotch Whigs do survive, the bill should certainly dish them. The raises of the ...

... TI-EI INCURSION OF THE WHIG PEERS. I R - ?? DISCONTENT IN THE TORY CAMP. Lord Salisbury's overtures to the Whig peers were the absorbing topic of Conversation at the Carlton Club yesterday. Lord Northbrook and Lord Lau5dOlvne were, it seemed, the two ...

... SUGGESTED WHIG ADMINISTRATIONS. I Yesterday we published from the pen of a distinguished member of the present Administration a list of the Ministry which there is every reason to suppose will succeed the present one. For comparison we print side by ...

... riaL WH/IGS AND THE FRANCHISE BILL. 1i1-a11mour gains ground that the Government contemplate a p D pl~rO'1iSC on Mr. ALBERT GitsYxs amendment to the F ranchise f( 1 jic debatc on that amendment, as we all know, is one u '+lc two dangerous straits which ...

... Liberal creed?' Yet Macaulay is sometimes held up as the typical Whig of the old school from whom your modern Radical is terribly degenerated. But ha is a typical Whig only because he is dead. Whig as a political term has been dropping out of use of late ...

... Earl Grey), and if the Irish members or the Home Rule Radicals wish to crush the Whig arguments of to-day they cannot do better than refer to the speech of this typical Whig of eighty-six years ago. Mr. Grey showed that the overwhelming majority of the ...

... jority will be Radical or Whig. To this question, it is answered, by most, persona that in the composition of the beral partyn the next 'arliame'nt the Whigs will be conspicuous-bytheir'absence.- Thaf-depends upon the Whigs As things are going just now ...

... scorn, which was common to all Whigs, the Radicals revenged themselves, however, by gradually bringing the name of Whig into discredit as that of a man who professed one set of principles and acted on another. The Whigs came to be considered the Jesuits ...

... hardly be laid down. It is not even as if it were pretended that the House of Lords ltus the Whig party ought to have this wonderful veto on legislation. The Whig party, in the person of its most important members and its traditional representatives and ...

... -that the gulf between the Whigs and the Conservatives- is: as' narrow- as that between the; Whigs_ and the Ransomist Radicals. is wide -There is: no mistaking :the significance of the fact,. for one thing, :that all the Whig speakers contented ' themselves ...