... A PROPHECY BY AN OLD WHIG. “I declare before God that I think it the wildest and maddest scheme that it ever entered the mind of man to conceive to leave the whole agricultural interest without protection. You will never get into the markers of the continent ...

... questions. He says last session showed how seriously the Government were embarrassed by the withdrawal of the support of the Whig section in both Houses. At the opening of this session it was believed the same party exerted their influence in favour of ...

... Sexton, M.P., justified the attitude of the Land League. Mr Biggar, M.P., denounced the unholy alliance between the Radicals, Whigs, and Tories to abolish trial by jury and the right of free speech. ...

... while you are waging war unsuccessfully is a very perilous proceeding.” it is, and probably the Government think so; but with Whigs behind them, and Radicals near them, and Homo Rulers in front of them, it is their destiny to go on blundering and humiliating ...

... held has been that of Sheriff of Renfrow. The rejection of Lord Durham at Brooks's Club bat given ?? concern to many of the Whig families. For years a member of that nobleman's family has been a member of the club. There is nothing to be urged against ...

... Liberal peers to the coming Irish Land Bill of the Government. The Edinburgh the solitary surviving rrgan of the old Whigs, and old Whigs are powerful in the Upper House, of which the number of Radical members might be counted on the fingers of single hand ...

... Parliament; but we saw the sting, we recogtiised the venom of the man in the conclusion of his speech, when he declared that the Whig Administration would restore Ireland to a state of Christianity and civilisation. (Groans.) It comes well from the defeated ...

... election. The working men knew him. Hitherto they had formed their notions an aristocrat from the samples of gentility which the Whig families constantly produced. Those brilliant specimens of the human race belonged to the old families ” of the town families ...

... between Conservatism and Liberalism in the only sense in which Liberalism now has any distinct meaning. It was contest ktwceii Whig aristocrat and a Tory aristocrat, such might have takeu place a hundred years ago; and we must be careful not to confound the ...

... that a motion will be earried. Lord Lytton o will be supported by the whole body of _ the Conservative party; also by a few Whig n Peers; and the Conservatives are wishing that a v crushing defeat may be inflicted on the Government. C Fortunately, the ...

... rush out of the House to get something to eat. There is nothing above the gangway on the same side except a number of sedate Whigs, some distinguished University men, one two young Ritualists, a few younger sons, and fearful and wonderful amount of the great ...

... nt Toryism. It might bo supposed from what they said of Toryism that there were no reforms and no improvements before the Whigs came into power. If they would read their history they would find that there were State improvements going on, and adaptations ...