... smallness of the majority by which the amend- sent of Mr. Heneage's was rejected to-night is entirely due to Whig votes against the Government, or to Whig abstentions. There is a good deal of dissatisfaction on the Liberal side with regard to the conduct of ...

... are now too old to change, it behoves us all the more to make it clear to the younger race of Englishmen that between “plain Whig principles” and plain Conservative principles there is now but the shadow of a difference, and that if they act as though there ...

... t is that he often finds himself neither a Whig nor a Tory nor a Radical, but simply Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, like any ordinary man in the street ’—for whom Mr Bright once expressed great contempt. The Whig has run away from the noble lord, the Tory has ...

... the bad trade which had followed bad harvests. Tory as he was to the backbone, he would have rejoiced in the accession of a Whig Government if it could have brought us a succession of good harvests—an opinion with which most Yorkshiremen would agree, for ...

... law-breakers—will soon to be pacific and contented. E. P. BOUVERIE THE IRISH QUESTION. In long letter the Times, this well-known Whig politician says Does anyone in his senses believe that the Land Bill of the Government will act as a sudden ndatha if it is ...

... proceeds through committee was furnished by the debate of last Thursday. Mr Heneage, the member for Great Grimsby, a gentleman of Whig principles, and a regular supporter of the Government, proposed as an amendment to the first clause that all farms should be ...

... that this Land Bill no way satisfies their demands, and I think I may prophecy in the future that that humble trait m the Whig character which has been introduced, and which has served them so well in the present and in the past, will also serve them ...

... understand that to-morrow a 'statement U ;be sande by Lord E. Fitzmaurice which will indi- ate clearly enough that from the Whig critics of the a no more trouble need be expected. After the I bind Bill has left the House of Commons, it is expected that ...

... warfare. In the house of God, in parish ministrations, I do not imagine that any man would ever be able to say that I was a Whig or Tory ; but surely all thinking men have right to feel an interest in the welfare of their country. Strange to say, it was ...

... imperatively required unless the Government measure is to be allowed to perpetrate downright justice, and there must be many Whig landowners in the House of Commons of his way of thinking. Mr Gladstone may find himself in a awkward predicament if he insists ...

... theoretical evils. Akin to these (if they only were consistent with their principles rather than their part}) are the old Whigs. Then come the trimmers, with Mr Gladstone at their head, whose belief is that the object for which they were created and sent ...

... Liberal because his party is too often carried away by impatience, and will not listen to his Indian experiences ; he has Whig tendencies on many points, and he is a Radical in other things. Of his religious convictions I know nothing, but believe them ...