... the disgraceful harshness and injustice with which his sister-in- law, Lady Flora Hastings, was treated by the Queen and her Whig ministers. Lord Bath will aJso be offered a dukedom, and, possibly, Lord Lansdowne. it will be rather an anti-cliinax if the ...

... a most uncompromising opposi- tion to legislative proposals which he could not accept. At irreconcilable variance with tbq Whig wing of Liberalism on many important points, he yet was found standing shoulder to shoulder with men like Lord Hartington and ...

... ORGANISATION IN WALES. THE tide is advancing in Wales. Moderate opinions are being swept away. Welshmen have washed their hands of Whigs. They only want communion With aggressive, determined Liberals. The rapid progress which has been made of late amply proves ...

... shewn of late years towards Toryism. It was not always thus. When the QUEEN ascended the Throne, Lord MELBOURNE, the eccentric Whig minister, was Premier, the aged Duke of WELLINGTON and Sir ROBERT PEEL being in Opposition. The young QtTEEN respected Lord ...

... the temporary crutch the Government were making use of. Thus, no doubt, did Lord RANDOLPH'S prototype and hero fall upon the Whigs, aud Peelites, and the Irish Nationalists of that day. But DISRAELI stood on more solid ground than his imitator. He had a ...

... politics of Britain are in a sta.te of transforma- tion. The old order in the House of C >mmoa». with its two great parties, Whig and Tory, and with its exclusively aristocratic and piutoerafcic constitution, is one for ever. and no amount of regret for ...

... nellite showed up, they being for the most part Roman Catholics. Close on the stroke of eleven THE SPEAKER LED 'T'HE WAY, and Whigs, Tories, Radicals, and Independent* trooped after him, fraternising in a millennium fashion. The cortege, as the Court newsman ...

... no opportunity of showing her preference for the Tory party. In the early days of her reign she was just as partial to the Whigs, with the result that there was a revolt amongst the Tories, led by the late Sir Robert Peel. But Liberals have been out of ...

... Government. Yet he never effected a solitary reform. The country wants some- thing besides words. The Dissentient lions—the haughty Whig and the renegade Radical—have also been on the stump this week. Both are irreconcilable. Lord Hartington knows of no remedy ...

... whose grip it was an engine of terror, and, UNGUIDED BY THHM, WRITES PEACIt. K,.t,kufI' journalistic biography, as written by Whig and Tory alternately, presents him as an enemy of order and right, and the embodiment of patriotism and self-less chivalry ...

... essential, and indeed indispensable. Any powerful country can rule a weak one by an elaborate coercive code. If the Tories and Whigs are resolved that Ireland shall be forced into a superficial quiet by the handcuff, the indictment, and the plank bed, they ...

... Unionists, but be it always bcrna in mind that tbe Unionist party is almost devoid of soiidity. There are Lord Hartington and the Whig Unionists, who are pledged to the Government almost without conditions there a.re Mr Chamberlain and his sma 1 knot of followers ...