... legislation he proposes is immoral, but necessary for the stability of the present political alliance between himself and the Whigs. But, so far as we can see, there the matter ends, for unity between the rank and file of the Tory party and the Liberal D ...

... three-acre allotment, and there was end of them. (Laughter.) Then Mr. Gladstone came into office. He not surprised the action the Whigs regard to the Irish question, hut he Was little surprised at the action of the other so-called Liberal Unionists. Some of them ...

... ortunes, | motives than his neighbours. Talk about ecor f either | sbout the wastefainess of the public service. | any one—Whig, Tory, Radical, Unionist, Separat of his | it possible to conceive a more absolute and with | Plete waste of public money than ...

... not for one moment forget that Mr. BALFOUR is very much the creature of circumstances. He belongs to the combined party of Whigs and Tories, with half-a-dozen quondam Radicals thrown in by way of salt, by whom Ireland was to be governed without Coercion ...

... into two aections. First there are the Whigs, who I think have been going away from us ever since 1832. Whigs went very much from us in 1867 ; some slipped away when the Irish Church was disestablished; there were Whigs who got their fingers squeezed in the ...

... is. They need have no fear, for nothing but a direct Vote of Confidence will break up the compact that exists between the Whigs and the Tories. Without obstruction, with the Unionists having a free hand, and with the help of the Liberal Leader, it will ...

... growing interest of the people in the programme of the Liberal party. The Crofter Commission in Scotland has demonstrated that Whigs like the Duke of ARGYLL and others who are rack-renters, whose fierce opposition to Irish land reform is notorious, have a ...

... Hartington there is a great gulf fixed. Then, I ask myself, what is an orthodox Whig view of this question ? Perhaps you do not care very much about that But I do. Well I trust the Whig party has a fundamental principle, which is in doubtful cases always to give ...

... advocated a large measure of Local Government for Ireland as well as for England. If Mr. GLADSTONE has gone forward, the great Whig leader has gone backward. Does not that fact show that the re-union of Liberalism ought not to be the utter impossibility that ...

... there was a certain quaintness, which, however, tended rather to aehance the pleasure of tie acquaintance. He was somewhat of a Whig in politics, and it may be of interest to mention that the writer accompanied Mr. Shaw Lefevre in a call upon him during his ...

... that only a year or two ago Mr. Chamberlain offered the Irish members even Irish Republic if they would help him to dish the Whigs. He also made various other statements, and said he would leave it to the public to judge why Mr. Chamberlain had conceived ...

... said he belonged to an historical party, by which he presumed he meant that he was a Whig. He (Sir George) was fond of all curiosities, and if he got hold of a Whig in Reading he would not, if he were a Reading nese, make him his member but would put ...