... recited. There is a danger other than that to which Sir Charles Dilke referred. There is some fear that Radicals in permeating Whigs maybe permeated by them. In a mixture of stronger and weaker elements, the stronger loses what the weaker gains. At present ...

... counter-permeation of political ideas : for the process is not all on one side. While Radical ideas are permeating the Whigs, Whig ideas will be permeating the Radicals ; and it is the perception of this truth which has caused the Radical supporters of ...

... in which political considerations have any proper place. Metropolitan administration is a question which equally concerns Whigs, Tories, and Radicals, in so far as they happen to live in London. As regards the points which admit of controversy, such as ...

... strength consist entirely' in the voices of Ministers and Lords-in-Waiting. Now the support he requires can only’ be given by Whig noblemen, and as the supply gets smaller and smaller the price naturally goes up. It is simply the rule of the market applied ...

... thirty thousand Attic slave-owners whom it pleases us to consider the “Athenian Democracy,” and who treated their leaders as the Whig aristocrats treated Burke ; and the absence of great men in Switzerland and America, where the Federal system so shatters the ...

... justly claims for Swift that he not only discredited the Whigs, hut gave new character to the Tory policy by associating it with the national sentiment. It has always been the tendency of Whig statesmen —it was emphatically their tendency in Swift’s day—to ...

... charge of political ratting.” But from a party point of view, Swift was never a very ardent Whig; and he continued to the last to defend those elements of the Whig creed which alone seemed to him to be of vital importance. That is, he believed that the ...

... of the Dublin mob for an absent English nobleman, Lord Morpeth. To the modern Irishmen conspiring for separation, however, Whig and Tory, Liberal and Conservative are alike objectionable, because they are Englishmen ; and if Mr. Joseph Cowen were made ...

... pronounced the “deposition of France in Egypt. This has been done by Mr. Gladstone, it is interesting to hear, as a sop to the old Whig party.” England is accused of taking advantage of the presumed repugnance of Democratic France to military enterprise, and ...

... pretext ; for proof has been given of the alleged inconvenience and friction of the Control. For the sake of a sop to the old Whig party, Mr. (lladstone has sacrificed the friendship of France ; and the more his conduct is examined, the less excusable is ...

... an ending as has not satbfird the people. It has not calmed the excitement ; it has not welded the Irish party and the great Whig party into one. It has left matters as they stood before, with Mr. O’Donnell proclaiming the certainty of further and vastly ...

... and to his quiet stay in Edinburgh till he found that he had no hope employment and his life was threatened by the western Whigs. Mr. Skelton’s article on Bolingbroke differs pleasantly enough in tone from much that has been written since it became the ...