... speech at Cutnnock, Ayrshire, on Ireland. He reminds Lord Edmond of the action of the Whigs with reference to the Union. and says that what ci wanted new is a little Whig treatment of the Irish question. He deplores the action of the so called Liberal Irnioniets ...

... Letter,' which for the time made any political alliance between Catholic and Protestant impossible. But when, in 1852, the Whig ministry went out, and Lord Derby, coming in with the Tories, dissolved Parliament. the chance of the Tenant Leaguers came ...

... to turn his back with studied insult on his distinguished subject. The Whigs left their choice club by scores at a time because O'Connell became a member of it; and the great Whig houses closed their doors to the first orator of his generation. . . ...

... called the Whig section of the Dissentients : and some of Mr. CHAMBERLAIN'S utterances seem to show that he is fully conscious of this difference, and to indicate that there is a possibility of the re-union of the Radicals if not of the Whigs with the great ...

... one of those who resigned office rather than follow Mr. Dzsaaxxi when he introduced his Retortn Bill, in order to dish the Whigs in 1867, and so can hardly be expected to imitate that example in 1887. No one can suppose his lordship to be com. parable ...