... us, but almost all of them crush the hope out of Us aud leave us kcorned and humbled beggars. Well do I know that the old Whigs were the grand champions of a grand old canue (oheers), but these mcn have not the fibre, Their politics ate of a sickly hue ...

... great interest in the complicated political struggles of their neigh- bours. We have parties enough in this country. Liberals, Whigs, Old and New Radicals (so Mr Chamberlain insists), Conservatives, Tories, Tory Democrats, Irish Nationalists, and the Fourth ...

... the same time he did enormous service to the to Conservative party. He was a link between the old-fashioned Tories and the Whigs. In the House of Commons, his sedate disposition and well-balanced character made him more useful than many another with more ...

... and for shorter Parliaments. Few electors are sufficient students of history to remember that the Septennial Act was simply a Whig device to secure the position of the Hanoverian dynasty and to prevent the 'danger of a Stuart restoration. The reason for ...

... hope to- C win. It was not contested in 1886, and in a 18E5, when the Liberal candidate was a strong 15 local man, albeit a Whig, the Tories won by 14 nearly 300 votes. To do as in 1885 pre- b supposes defeat. Mr Mellor is, in many respects, a a capital ...

... credit to a man-placed as he is, and as long as he remained in' the LibralM party, his presence was valasble as foreing the Whigs - to move on- wardJ even at a slow, pace In the same way 1 he, is. not keen upton allotments, but. he recognises. a strong ...

... and when he knew that they were dist W tinotly clear of all party organi saion, having in those matters no syeepathy with the Whig or prig, te Tory or toady or indeed the Radical or rascal, he at C once accepten their invitation, He was fairly well known ...

... atronger 4a rgument for superseding the Reptennial Act, t which is not a fundamental article of the Con- I- stitution, but a Whig -device to counteract the attacks on. the throne of Stuart pretenders, could i be adduced than te fact; that the working r ...

... heard- Why did we allow deer old Redoros street, with Its roll of patacd present manseerE, embraooingu hurhme anad Dissenters, Whigs and Tories, Liberals and Caonserva- tives, and with a still longerroll of old pupilsi-nowe scattered over the wide world-why ...

... . A rhetorical ,A bathos of this kind is surely a ver signifloant proof ot 'I what Moansled Liberal Unionaism will bring a Whig qf the e old sbecol to believe and say. It would be diffleult to get cc much further from the Liberalism which pr6vailed when ...

... Llberal party were ayreed in nothing but keeping in power. They bad to compromiee between Quakers who were maie of fight and Whigs of the school of Palaerenshn; between gentlemen like Mr Roby, who bad a quarrel with the House of Lords, and Lord Hartington ...

... Chamberlain, the representative middlech 2clan, the ?? and Liberationi On the Church, on the land, oa the old traditions of Whig and Radical, the Birmingham school and the Fartington school wouldhbe sure to elash, and neither one would follow the other ...