... anything will efface the Whig. The Liberal party is quite big enough for Lord Hartington, Mr Goachen, and Mr Forster, as well as Lord Rosebery, Sir Charles Mike, and Mr Chamberlain; and we are of opinion, like Earl Cowper, that the Whig will find himself more ...

... writes A Whig to the Pull Mall Gazette, at the prospect of the payment by the country of pensions to the Lord Chancellors of England and Ireland even if they should hold the seals of office for a few months only. In the year 1841 the Whig Government ...

... while they are gratified with the reflection that Mr Gladstone also, once upon a time, had his name and fame put through the Whig mill. The political power of the day is seen to be with Mr Chamberlain, even to a larger extent in Scotland than in England ...

... leader as a big bogey to frighten timid and moderate electors. Lord Hartington, Mr Forst , 2r, Mr Goachen, and others of the Whig section, they say, are moderate and reasonable politicians, and even Conservatives might trust them to bring forward no re ...

... themselves. But unless the labouring classes can be united, and organised to vote as a solid body for a Government—whether Whig or Tory—that is pledged to reform and reduce their grievances, the franchise can be of little benefit. One half voting against ...

... MR GLADSTONE ON LORI) SPENCER. We are r , quested by Mr Gladstone teptiblish'the folh•whig letter. tin extract Ws which was read - by 114 r 'luring the Irish debate in the House of Commons Fri , 1:41 night : 1 Richmond Terrace, July 17,1885. My Dear ...

... Advanced Lam rals to save for the time the English Establi.hrnent, while sacrificing that of Scotland, in order to keep the old Whigs going, will be now of little avail. The violence of Church defenders, and particularly the wrath of the Bishops, will force ...

... Cran's return it was resolved that, instead of a ball, a dinner should be held. Invitations were issued to a large number of Whigs and Tories in Inverness and Ross, and in response over one hundred gentlemen sat down to a first-class dinner in the Caledonian ...

... the Liberal scheme. The better plan was judged to be to decline any attempt at dealing with the question, and to rely on the Whigs to prevent the Liberals doing so. It was during this controversy that the Standard produced the scheme alleged to have been ...

... Afghan frontier difficulty, the majority against the 'Tory-Parnellite combination has gone up to 30. The fact is the doubtful Whig members have found that war is very unpopular, an have declined any longer to cry out for a policy in the Soudan, of which ...

... truth is they have (and always with an ill grace) favogied reform to save their own political existence, just to dish the Whigs, or to discomfit the Radicals. It is the merest political hypocrisy and cant for Tories to say that they have ever favoured ...

... they would get any of their leaders to join the menagerie on the Treasury bench. Whigs and Radicals had joined hitherto, and by mutual oonsessions bad worked together. The Whigs, however, had walked the quarterdeck whilst the Radicals had slaved in the stokehole ...