... Liberal Federation are probably less anxious to let the Lords down easily. Lord Hartington represents in the Cabinet , the Whig element to which Lord Salisbury and his friends are always addressing their appeals to comeout and be separate—and appealing ...

... Government, whereby the interests of the Empire have been sacrificed and the national honour tarnished in the efforts to maintain a Whig-Radical-Home- coalition that is utterly unworthy of the confidence of the country. Spoakingof the Franchise Bill, he said ...

... their placemen. I find this answer of the archbishop quoted as noble expression the conference in York—no place sacred to Whig politicians—yet never (as I stated) was there a simple assertion less applicable to the true state of the case. Tbe real point ...

... arrived at, all the parties would atand as before. This fair and frank avowal was as loudly cheered on th* Conservative as on the Whig benches, but the Parnellites and Radicals received the statement in silence. Some idea that did not quite carry tho whole of ...

... with this portentous exception, that a far greater and move dangerous amount of political heat will have been engendered. The Whigs may petulantly complain that the House of Lords have acted unwisely in declining to consider the Reform Bill of the Government ...

... the garden of 'otsdam Palace, on the Saturday before the Congress broke up, that Lord Odo was always rev und fest. He was a Whig of the good old onstitutional school now nearly extinct, and he lad an absolute horror of the party which now ffects to have ...

... representative a family. In one particular this description of them is absolutely true. The Bourbons, like our own hereditary Whigs, learn nothing and forget nothing, and the same thing may be said of the entire French nation. It might have been thought that ...

... demonstrations in the parks has cle activity the Radical ™r.ks over the programme of the autumn agita- S But a good many of the Whigs do not as toon. • D * to lending their names to yet see their and aim of which they movement^ may not be able to cham berlain ...

... represented the labour classes, that tha working men and labourers were able to make their demands known to the State. But the Whig measure of 1832 swept them away, though in substance they were good and right, and they had the £10 Franchise instead, the ...

... in any other capacity than as Conservative. When was candidate for High Wycombe, he was supported the Radicals against the Whigs, whom they detested, and he expressed opinions more advanced than was customary amongst Conservatives. Communications received ...

... the report is very far from being credible. However there is no doubt whatever that much pressure is being brought from the Whig benches on the Cabinet in this direction, but it is too much to expect that aught will be done that is so reasonable. And, ...

... speedy settlement; and it is whispered that iv the event of Mr. Gladstone declining to listen to private remonstrances, one the Whigs will be found bold enough to movo an address to the Crown to that effect. This, of course, presupposes that the Lords read ...