... days of his newly-acquired power, he lost many of those whose votes raised him to the Premiership. In home legislation the Whig- Radical Government has done very little that may be called effective. It is true a grand show was made, and profuse promises ...

... entitled King George the Third and Mr. Fox in their Early Days.' Describing the state of things at that time, when the great Whig families of England had contrived to appropriate to themselves all the power of the Kingdom, Mr. Trevelyan observes, that one ...

... of imposing taxation to compensate imaginary losses. Mr. Gorst considered the Bill had one meaning for the Constitutional Whigs and another for the Irish Members, and challenged the Prime Minister, if there were irreconcilable •differences between the ...

... the head of those of the '■ same school of thought, who has the credit of lead.ig the Prime Minister and the mild, pliant i Whigs by the nose in their government of Ireland | — and it is he who now declares that, though he hates coercion, he hates disorder ...

... ; and if farmers in other districts will follow their example, and confine their demands within reasonable limits, neither Whigs nor Tories will oppose concessions to them. The news we receive periodically from the West Coast of Africa is not usually of ...

... in the Radical ranks with- in the last fortnight. Not six months since the whole gamut of Liberalism, from the aristocratic Whig down to the real Red Republican, rang with the refrain that force is no remedy. Mr. Chamberlain, taking up the note from ...

... like to see the tenant farmers.if possible, repre- sented by a man who would be entirely free from the tram- mels of either Whig or Tory. (Mr. Yeldham. Where are you going to find him? and laughter.) Well, in his humble opinion, if the man was wanted ...