... 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 ...

... r). He blieve the teoplia -would plceInM office a'astrog Liberal -Ministry, -free from the -influence of -weak'R co) kneed Whig adslsekgRdicals;. a Ministry prc that would not ony give penee and rosperity to h Ireland, btit wod Sao . remove many Of -the ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... . 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... the mean- while, The idea of these five hundred delegates meeting in Liverpool to-day would have terribly. alarmed the old Whig fogies of 1865, as indeed it alarms some of the fogies In our own days. Yet the Coigress in unquestionably an instrument for ...

... 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 ...

... Irish question, the right hon. gentleman said Mr Fox's definition of despotism photographed the state of Ireland, The great Whig leader sid Despotism was where the executive power was everything and the rights of the people nothing (applause). As to ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...