... RADICAL MEEKNESS. THE politicians, Whig and Tory, who are fretting and fuming about the imperious violence of the Radicals ought now and then to look at things as they really are. If there is one subject in domestic policy about which the typical Radical ...

... awakened by his illness. The attitude of Earl Grey and so many other Whig peers in the debate on the Irish Compensation Bill this week shows how wide is the breach already between the Whigs and the Radicals. It is hardly to be expected, there- fore. should ...

... . We may gather that the feeling in London society as represented by your press is that the session is a failure; that the Whig opposition to the Irish Disturbance Bill and the Hares and Rabbits Bill is fully justified; that the House of Commons has been ...

... would become a Whig coterie with one or two Radicals in it, who would be so persistently outvoted that in the end they would have to withdraw. In this case, all drastic legislation would be shelved, and we should drift into thefar niente Whig, which has been ...

... Government were hounded on by their Radical supporters, while they were invariably deserted, when it came to a pinch, by their Whig friends; and the only reason why the bill could get through at all was that this was the age of political hypocrisy and cowardice ...

... obeying no motive higher than class prejudices and personal antipathies. We are not quite so bad as in the famous times when Whig ladies put on their patches in one way, and Tory ladies put them on in another; when the partisans of the Government sat at ...

... the rejection of an assembly of landlords ad jbll hich not only the Irish members, and not only English I dicaIls, but even Whig Ministers like the Duke of ARGYLL and l;ord NA]RTINGTON thought just, wise, and expedient for Ireland >liats ?? does seem to ...

... be sought a long way beyond that idea of Freedom of Contract which is the one barren contribution of the Tories and the Old Whigs to the subject. We shall never get Ireland right by a formula out of a text-book. The formula has been tried for a long time ...

... accepting a solution which only the other day they condemned as ruinous to trade. This may be a very fine way of dishing Whigs; but it does not increase the public confidence in the political morality of some among its leading men, RENT IN BENGAL. A ...

... The O'Conor Don and Mr. Kavanagh, not only landlords, but avcwed enemies of the views of the tenants; while Baron Dowse was a Whig official, and Mr. Shaw represented the more timid school of land reformers. There was not a single representative of the opinions ...

... nineteenth century. In Pearls-Tears Miss Butt deals with the events of I745, apparently under the impression that the Whigs who supported the House of Hanover against the Pretender were fanatics of the same type as the Puritans who hated Charles I ...

... renewing, at nine o'clock, the debate on the Budget; and he employed the opportunity in recommending, amid the scorn of the Whigs, the jeers of the Radicals, and the still more discouraging silence of his friends, the annexation Of Afghanistan as a bulwark ...