... WHIG ON THE GOVERNMENT. Mr. Cumming Macdona, writing from the Middle Temple, says :— Liko many more thoughtful Liberals, I havo been more influenced by patriotism than party, and could not and would not, follow tho wild wanderings, the reckless and ruinous ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... electioneering move pure and simple, the contest in Antrim having to-day reached crisis on the eve of the polling. Just the Whig candidates are suffering in Ireland from the ladies of the Government, so in Scotland, I hear, they are equally handicapped ...

... the Cabinet that no purchase Bill sufficiently Liberal could be worked until a Local Government Bill had been passed. The Whigs seem to be very confident that if their representatives continue firm Mr. Chamberlain and his party will not venture to break ...

... if this policy of coercion was not altogether abandoned. They knew what would happen in that case—when the Whigs and Radicals disagreed—the Whigs wonld give way, and Lord Spencer would say that he could govern Ireland without that extraordinary legislation ...

... to the Whigs or the latter must abandon their convictions and traditions. either case the support of tbe defeated section would be lost to the party the elections. The Radicals would not fight merely to secure a monopoly of power to the Whigs, tempered ...

... without loaing their commmeroe, depended upon that influence. Alluding to the proposed alliance of the Conservatives with the Whigs, he said ho had watched the prospect of that with the deepest interest, and if anything in the whole domain of English politics ...

... FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT private wires.| London, Sunday Night. The Ulster Whigs profess to be furious at the decision of the Government not to accompany coercion with conciliation. They protest that they have been bamboozled, if'not actually ...

... published until three years after that date. (Laughter.) The little point, not of great importance, and at which the silly Whigs behind Lord Granville laughed, exists in Lord Granville's imagination. I am correctly reported in tho Times as giving the date ...

... which can effectually oppose the revolutionary tide. He tries to run with the hare and hold with the hounds. Like many other Whigs he finds himself powerless both with Radicals and Conservatives. It to such men, who are neither one thing nor another, that ...

... published until threo yoars after that date. (Laughter.) Thodittle point, not of great importance | and at which the silly Whigs behind Lord Granville laughed, exists in Lord Granville's imagination. I am correctly reported in tho Times as giving the date ...