... fact ; * a sociis,' says you. Ay,' Birds of feather flock together,' as the old maxim goes. Now, Sam, who supported the Whigs? Why, let me see; a few of the lords, few of the gentry, the manufaoturin* folks, the Independents, the Baptists, tho Dissentin' ...

... prevalence of individual ambition and personal claims. In plain Feclish, this means that there are atill some in dependent Whigs who will not how the knee to the Caucus. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... he declared that the illuminating power of that Parliamentary candle was rather below the average. But no one expects a Whig leader, especially at time of rapid political change like the present, to give the great popular constituencies an illumination ...

... own programme and had to bewaro of the upsetting process. It was here that, bis heart being not even as the heart of these Whigs, but hot within him, he broko out into those uncomplimentary descriptions of Brooks of Sheffield. He had to reproduce the proposals ...

... cause. Lord Hartington may object the principal items of the Radical programme; the junior Member for Birmingham may gird at Whigs as Rip Van Winkles; but both will follow Mr. Gladstone, whether he goes fast and far or moves slowly, safely, and in the old ...

... put a protective duty against all English manufactures. (Cries of Never.) Then he says, the second place, that he expects Whig and Tory will vie with one another in helping him to a settlement on his own terms ; and he says, in the last place, that if ...

... the Nineteenth Century has at least the merit of being singularly opportune. He propounds a question which many an old Whig, and new Whig too for the matter that, is putting to himself and to his friends with daily increasing perplexity ; and on the solution ...

... Liberal Cabinet unless his social programme were adopted. Liberals no less than Conservatives are inclined to think that the Whigs will resist and that should this attempted dictation, Mr. Gladstone be returned to power Mr. Chamberlain will be taken at his ...

... some ominous talk in Liberal circles bere is confined to mere alarmists, the Whig-Radical split is rapidly widening again. As I have before told you the habitues of the old Whig Clubs are still sulking over Mr. Chamberlain's recent speeches in spite of ...

... (From Punch.) COWPER'S TASK. (In the Ninoteanth Century.) To show tbe Rad bogey tbe merest scares, And prove that the Old Whigs withouth«5 Motto fob the Notts Cricket Team.—^ to win ! . Motto for Greenwich.—The early Boord p'° np Do Worms. . Daughter ...