... ST. JAMES’S GAZETTE. THE WHIGS AND THE FARMERS. While the world has been intent on the Egyptian debate and questions of high policy, an under-plot has been proceeding at the same time of which if the interest affects smaller number of persons, the importance ...

... word about Home Rule : instead of it there are twelve Bills on a variety of matters of more or less moment that any body of Whigs or placemen might originate. The programme is remarkable for what it leaves out. ...

... them find it possible trace. Could a writer of the day describe in language more accurate than this the position of our new Whigs, balancing between their ancient principles and their modem convenience? ���Indecision, the natural accomplice of violence”—they ...

... unreadiness at appreciating the changes going on around them. They seem unable to divest themselves of the traditions of the old Whig and Tory game, at which the mass of the people played the part of mere spectators. The mass of the people are now players, ...

... Irish sflaiis. They do not seem well qualified for the task. They are not unprejudiced, for they are all Radicals or Ulster Whigs. Four of them sit for Irish seats, and twenty-two others for constituencies with a strong Parnellitc vote. They are almost ...

... candidates,” and that Lord Derby had boasted of having subscribed to a fund to manage the elections.” Though the combined attack Whigs and Radicals succeeded in ousting the Conservatives, it did not at first appear perfectly clear to whom it would give the ...

... spoke very differently about Ireland twenty years ago from what be does now; while Mr. Labouchere, in an article Radicals and Whigs,” intervenes between Mr, Marriott and Mr. Chamberlain, and incidentally states the Radical programme with his usual candour ...

... partners may or may not honour. The Cabinet sits Janus-like : with one face it looks benignantly and sympathetically on the Whigs ; with the other, which last night was in shadow, it winks knowingly at the Radicals. ...

... any such sincere detestation of the system of party as he accredits him with in this part of his work. Addison, like other Whigs—and Tories too, for that matter—could use this language when it suited his purpose. But what he really thought upon the subject ...

... extremely unpopular with Liberals and Radicals is a very perplexing question. The old argument of the Conservatives and moderate Whigs against this part of the people’s charter was that Parliaments were practically as short as they could conveniently be; that ...

... Trevor Chichele Plowden, Political Resident at Baghdad. Mr. Goldwin Smith—Past and Present. By R. Barry O’Brien. Radicals and Whigs. By Henry Labouchere, M.P. Mozart. By H. H. Statham. Our Colonial Policy. By St. Leger Herbert. C.M.G. Occupying Ownership ...

... nor the Liberals who acted with him who deserved this reprcacb, but the Ministers themselves, who had thrown over all the old Whig Liberal traditions for the sake of gratifying certain political allies who sat below the gangway. Lord Stanley began by pointing ...