... Parnell and his associates, Mr. Gladstone would have found hungelf n a minority through the defection of a large portion of his Whig following. An amendment to the Lind Bill had been proposed by a Mr. eneage, who professes allegiance to the Liberal party. ...

... account; and on these latter occasions tho Whig bolters may very often be found voting with the Government. But the real danger to the bill is in the skilfully devised amendments emanating from the mutinous Whigs supported by the full force of the Conservative ...

... think that, to say the least of it, his Grace’s zeal has outrun his discretion. to the Archbishop’s Whig proclivities, he seems to have forgotten that the Whigs are the party which O’Connell denounced as “base.bloody, and brutal”— which planned, and very nearly ...

... was raised against the unanimous expression of opinion in their favour by advanced Home Rulers, moderate” Home Rulers, qnd Whigs. How did the Government meet those Irish proposals They rejected them both. Mr. QUadsi-on#, of course, had his reasons for ...

... evening. It was supported naturally by the Tories ; hot more noteworthy feature was the amount of sympathy it excited among the Whig members who sit behind the Treasury bench. Mr. Fitz william, Colonel Kinga•ote, and Lord E. Pitzmaurice supported the amendment ...

... is true that besides Tory opposition he has to meet the insidious mauoeuvrings of a group of his own nominal followers—the Whig Adullamites who played a similar part over the Compensation for Disturbance Bill last year—led men like Messrs. Fowler and ...

... During the past week the conviction has been spreading that the Land Bill is to be quietly strangled or talked out by the Tory-Whig landlord party. That some such design enraptures the souls Mr. Chaplin and Lord Elcho is notorious. That it is softly whispered ...

... such a case the Marquis of Salisbury and the Duke of Richmond are to dictate what is to be done, in spite even of the Irish Whigs and of the moderate” Mr. Shaw and his followers, whose breaking with Mr. Parnell was to render them all-powerful with Ministers ...

... sympathetic cheers from the Ministerialists, denounced the proposal meant to defeat the bill by an unholy combination among Whigs and obstructive Tories. Mr. Gladstone, in duty bound, was milder in tone, and went into lengthy refutation of the various arguments ...

... pressure, and took the opportunity of contrasting the silent aid of the Irish members with the persistent opposition of the Whigs and Conservatives. Finally, the Conservatives elected to take a division on the amendment, with the result that 125 voted for ...

... consent of the tenant.” , A long debate arose this amendment, ihe Government refused to accept it, but a large number of the Whigs gave it their support. Ultimately the committee divided, with the result:— For the amendment Against Majority _ ••• 25_ ...

... bailiff at the door and the crowbar already on the roof-tree, while the Government measure crept along and the Conservative and Whig Obstructionists proposed frivolous and dilatory amendments, and the Ministerial position was that of aiding in this work of ...