... THE DECAY OF PARTY. Referring to that period of our history when George 111. was engaged in his struggle with the great Whig Houses, the Standard maintains that the king had popular opinion on hi 3 side because he was fighting against rival factions which ...

... election, even if we -are not strong enough to win ; let us be strong enough to lose -anything rather than be betrayed by the Whigs. The tenacity with which some people cling to the old Laissez faire doctrines, as well as their inconsistency in regard ...

... conditions. Such a heresy, however, had no chance of getting a hearing through the capitalist press, whether it called itself Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative. And now, it is by no outsider, but by an American of the Americans, that this theory is ...

... Spencer ? If so, they will not probably have much difficulty in assenting to him, as he goes on to trace the operation of Whig and Tory principles, so Iletined, in our national history, the one party desiring to resist and decrease the coercive power ...

... will not be strengthened at the next election, under whatever circumstances it takes place ; and the Orange party and the Whigs will be seriously misled, if they dream that they will be able to diminish the Nationalist strength. The Irish Afentbets.— ...

... professions for years—whether justifiably or not we do not now inquire —upon the ground that it had effectually dished the Whigs. Even zealous Liberal politicians admit that our marvellous performances in Egypt, which have of late so astonished observers ...

... or doctrines. It is never easy to take Mr. Labouchere au serieux. Those that can, may find in his article on Radicals and Whigs a striking instance of the new political methods, whereby a Spartan rigime for land, labour, and capital is proposed. Mr. ...

... a sincere desire to amend them. In the first case he tends towards the Whig party or group, and will be sucked into it : or rather, putting names apart, he is really but a new Whig himself, and has no real aim in any direction. Well, as among the whole ...

... JUSTICE. dignified position ; for the Whig party, since they are fossils, cannot die as long as the bourgeois constitution lasts. One may say that each of these sections of the Liberal party has some power, and some prospects ; but what is to be said ...

... front to show themselves. This very Brighton election will encourage all trimmers to dismount from the fence on the Tory or Whig-Liberal side. That there is no enthusiasm about the new Reform Bill by itself is quite clear. The only hope of rousing the ...

... will follow. Sunday, r6th March. J. L. Joynes—St. James' and Soho Club, 39, Gerrard Street. Soho, W., at it.3o. Tories, Whigs, Radicals and Socialists. H. H. Champion—Marylebone Branch, 95, Hampstead Road. 7.45 p.m. The Iron Law of wages. Tom S ...

... means of deliverance from a wholesale invasion of Irish Parnellite members. If the new franchise is indeed to extinguish the Whigs in Ireland, and reduce the Tories to a minimum, the only resource is to cut down the hated representation to as low a point ...