... is the inevitable result of the umbrella system. The plant, to paraphrase a celebrated remark, was sent out to please the Whigs and brought home please the Badicals, and the nation has to pay for the gratification of both. St. James's Gazette. ...

... Wrongs of the Crofters and the Reform of the Land Laws. I have now at last a MAN ! I've waited long With deaf ear turned to Whig and Tory babble, If God, belike, might send a champion strong With potent word to lay the dinsome squabble As Moses clave the ...

... content himself with such a moiety of the Crimes Act as Mr. Gladstone can induce his Radical colleagues to allow him and his Whig colleagues to be content with, upon the understanding that there is nothing in this arrangement which will debar the former ...

... manifesto, says that it appears an opportune moment to restore union to the Liberal party. Mr. Gladstone will not find the Whigs refuse to follow him under the pretext that he goes too far now. The Radicals fall away from him, on the ground that he does ...

... support his more puroly Radical allies. But when he passes from his general statement to particular details we see that the Whig part of hia programme contains most of the things which may be deemed essential, while tho advanced views which he hints are ...

... way of remedial legislation for Ireland, or, better still, by the compromise which we have suggested, Mr. Gladstone and his Whig colleagues may find themselves in a position of considerable difficulty. ...

... commissions, which are constructed on the principle that the wishes of the people count for nothing. But, balancing merits Whig, Tory, and Radical, he would prefer a Conservative Government to undertake the work of Irish reform, a Land Purchase Act being ...

... the Nationalist voters were at the command or the leader, and that thay would vote any way he told them. They had taught tho Whigs a lesson annihilating them and splitting them into two parties, one of which would join the Tories and the other would feel ...

... Oldham-road, last evening, Mr. C. H. M. Wharton, on The Whig-Radical Colonial and Foreign Policy. Mr. C. R. Cresswell presided, and there waa a large attendance. The Lecturer said that the mixture of Whig-Radical policy had resulted in the greatest disasters ...

... conceivable that the differences of opinion now existing in the Cabinet will not be composed, and that the schism between the Whigs and the Radicals may be precipitated. In that event, Mr. Gladstone's final retirement into private life would be no longer ...

... attacked by his Whig colleagues. The way they have sat on him, his friends say, argues a deliberate purpose, and it is idle to talk of not excluding Mr. Chamberlain's pet projects from the Ministerial programme of the future, when the Whig leaders have ...

... is, of course, at the rate of gain of £100 for the expenditure of £100, which is 100 per cent. W. A. Bowkett. —1. It was a Whig Ministry: Lord Aberdeen was Premier. 2. The news of the fail of Khartoum was received on the sth February. 3. Parliament was ...