... considers that on all important questions Mr. Gladstone acts against the old opinions of all the great Whig leaders in the olden days. The Whigs, I.ord I;rev continues, were a party to which I for one was then 'loud to belong, and of which 1 will ...

... in particular, is, to use a pungent Americanism. a house of arpet-haggers. As the writer of the admirable littk article, A Whig Retort, in the recently published number of the Edinburgh Renew observes, It contains an extraordinary number of unknown ...

... Zetland has certainly the courage of his opinions, and has said out publicly what many of the old Whigs are repeating with bated breath in society and in the clubs. Count Kalnoky has made a most reassuring COUNT statement to the members of the delegations ...

... Gladstone's sails. As to the effect of the declaration inside the House of Commons, two results may be stated. It has not made the Whig section of the Liberal party more cordial towards the gifted statesman who has so often led them to place and power ; but it ...

... House of Commons would pronounce Mr. David's election, if he were elected, null and void. If then the Conservatives or the Whigs were to repeat the tactics followed at Mitchell's second election in 1875, their candidate would be declared entitled to the ...

... Tories, just as the late Lord DERRy defended the lowering of the borough franchise, on the ground that it had dished the Whigs. And those among the Liberals who dislike this proposed measure of Mr. GLADSTONE'S—Lord SHERBROOKE. may stand for a type of ...

... THE TABLET. professes itself to be neither Whig nor Tory, Liberal nor Conservative, but simply Catholic was therefore looked upon in the town as a disagreeable novelty. The Catholics, it seem, are some ten thousand in a population of a hundred thousand ...

... some exception to Mr. Justice Fitzgerald's political bias, gives the following favourable estimate of his judicial eminence: A Whig in politics, he regarded the stronger phases of popular agitation with disfavour, and the rhetoric of his charges from the ...

... Catholics at present abstain from politics because their consciences will not allow them to unreservedly adopt the principles of Whig or Tory, Conservative or Radical, and because reserved support of the principles of any of these parties means mediocrity and ...

... corner meeting of highly respectable gentlemen in Willis's Rooms, where the admission is to be by ticket, and where an Old Whig is to preside. Here, indeed, is the I-Idlest/us mu, and the party have done more than chafe under the hard disappointment. ...

... incitement to treason and treason felony, and said that the views of the Home Secretary were more worthy of a Tory than of a Whig, the child of revolution and insurrection. Fewer than 20 rose in their places to support the amendment, and there was no ...

... leader of English Liberalism. As we read it, we are naturally reminded of the estimate of the same statesman formed by the reat Whig historian when that career was just beginning. We turn to the famous article on the Essay on Church and State, and we find ...