... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... late Cabinet came to be published, and the secrets of the politics of the day were laid bare. (Cheers.) Whether it was the Whigs who thought that they could by means of the sudden resignation of office shake off their Radical colleagues and return after ...

... incident, whereas with the Tories it was policy. He disposed of this by a reference to the long list of Coercion Bills passed by Whig Governments. The Crofters' Bill could not be passed in this session, but in the autumn be hoped to have opportunity of dealing ...

... s the past. This itself was a great advantage, but he possessed another and a still greater. He was Radical amongst Whigs, and a Whig amongst Radicals, and his personality, therefore, served to connect two political combinations, whose antagonism without ...

... *tement was at once denounced as a ny. We were invited to look the Liberal Cabinet as happy had anticipated the millenium, the Whig lamb lay down with the Radical at where Lord Hartington and Mr. were inseparable as Juno's v and the vacillation net were ...

... be the umbrella bearer of the Radical party in the approaching electoral campaign. All quarrels and differences between the Whig head and the Socialist tail, and the many other sections of the Radical party, are to be sunk and hidden from the public gaze ...

... they could do nothing that juncture, but their successors had accepted the Radical programme with regard to Ireland and the Whig programme with regard to foreign affairs, and those who when in power were ready to hide their heads in shame that they had ...

... pieces of patronage should fall vacant so quickly after the accession of the Conservatives has produced a startling effect Whig circles, and the omen, as it is regarded, should be followed up by a run of such accidents, Mr. Gladstone's scuttle will ...

... inclined to think, however, that Lis lordship has taken the step to mark his little confidence in a Government which contained Whigs, Liberals, and Radicals in its ranks. Whether he will hold with the Government all through remains to be seen. ...

... electioneering net of the Caucus is constructed by its authors to catch all fish, big and little. If the meshes are too large the Whig fish will escape; they be too small the Radicals will not enter in. If Mr. Brett's ingenuous questions were officially answered ...