... North Africa and m >t Rome to vote in the Government lobby. I members 33 took part in the division. - party called Ulster Whigs' also - Ministers. Of Scotch members but thr. Sixteen Irish members abstainer 1 from votins* : these some were in the House ...

... eagerly discussed. In spite of all denials there is no doubt that a sentiment very extensively prevails in the ranks of the Whigs averse to many of the provisions of the proposition. Mr. Chamberlain makes muoh of Lord Durham, but, after all, he is scarcely ...

... Just as it is with the newspajiers. so with the efforts of those who join in private conversation to fathom its chances. Whigs and Radicals are found to de- plore such a proposal, while some very good Con- servatives, whom I have come across, have declared ...

... this point the Ministerialists found it necessary to hit upon some other device. Lord Hartington. the repre- sentative of the Whig section in the Cabinet, gave I a new complexion to the controversy by throwing out hints at a compromise. The bait, however ...

... been for some time engaged in tinkering one up which is to please the Whigs, but it is likely, after all, that the real vute will be taken on the direct issue, and that both Whigs and Radicals will in the long run make up their minds to join their forces ...

... the world. The aged Premier takes due care of his health, and espe- cially of his voice, for the sake of his Cabinet and his Whig-Radical supporters. He will find need to use it again, and that before long, for there is a great deal to be done yet before ...

... with a direct negative, a proceeding he will hardly like to adopt. The notice of the previous question from two such typical Whigs as Mr. Cart- wright and Mr. Heneage speaks volumes for the state of mind of that section of the party. It will be probably ...

... vigour and apparent inde- pendence. And the most nnfortunate feature in tbe whole affair ia the indisputable fact that the Whig element in the Cabinet blindly follows the lead of Mr. Gladstone, how- ever he may temporise with and yield to the arrogant ...

... nature may be expected. Another able paper on the votes of censure during the present Bession, dwells upon the policy of the Whigs. The writer says it rests with Mr. Goschen to save the remnant of the Party from absorption into one or other of the great ...

... them. The advanoed Liberal section would not attempt to resist it, the old Whigs had not the power, and the responsibility rested upoa the Conservatives, combined with the old Whigs of tbe Palmeraton sohool. (Cheera.) In conclusion he moved That this meeting ...

... becomo a powerful section, the Socialists, who complain that the Radical M.P.'s do as little for the working classes as the Whigs. Socialists believe that the Radical attacks on the House of Lords are all sham. To give Socialists their due, they do know ...

... under existing circumstances? No, the disappointment is most keen Ik-low the Ministerial gangway. This time it is not the Whigs but the Radicals who have been dished. At pre- sent they will not confess it, and go about saying that they are satisfied, ...