... WHIGS ON THE GREEN. So they have begun already, and Sir EDWARD REED is the first. When we prophesied yesterday that the Government must decline from their high ideals, we had no notion that ourwords would be illustrated by so fine an ?? to-day. Mr. GLADSTONE ...

... JINGO-WHIG. To l describe so genial a personality as that of Lord ROSEBERY, especially when his legs are under the mnahogany of hospitality, as the skeleton at the feast, sounds somewhat inappropriate. And vet the ?? cannot be said to have diffused an ...

... which he has secretly and hurriedly made of Reciprocity with the United States. It is a case, it would seem, of dishing the Whigs, and stealing the clothes of the Opposition. This viewof the situation isconfirmed byremembering the natural consequences ...

... in fact, dished the Whigs almost exactly as DISRAELI dished them in 1.867. He had no working majority. He was hampered by all kinds of difficult problems, of which the Bohemian question was only the most urgent. With that the Whigs were very much easier ...

... Democracy five years ago, with any blind devo- tion to imaginary dictates of Political Economy as the Whigs are, and it was upon the old Whig dodges that he poured forth the fullest vials of his wrath. If Lord DUNRAVEN finds his party hampered upon ...

... were Canningite Whigs as well as Canningite Tories) because- they knew that he would show them sport. But there have been occasions when secessionists have made great sacrifices to political integrity by quitting -the camp. The Old Whigs, with the Duke ...

... services were more than ever convinced that the country was going to the devil. Certainly it looked as if it wcre going to the Whigs for a generation or two. When Parliament met in the spring of 1833 Sir Robert Peel could only muster 170 Tories in a llouse ...

... they are working for the mome nt, the most powerful factor among the Government influences. The Govern- ment itself is as Whig as Whig can be, but in its own rk Z re feeble way it follows at the call, or rather moves to the kick, of a very noisy faction ...

... too fast. That is to say, the Liberal party in those days was a combination of Radicals and Whigs, and Mr. GLADSTONE used up his nmajority by shedding his Whigs. But in both respects the situation now is entirely diffe- rent. Mr. GLADSTONE'S task in his ...

... hope out of us and leave us scorned and humbled beggars. A LADY POLITICIAN'S VIEW OF WHIGGERT. Well do I know that the old Whigs were the grand champions of a grand old cause-(cheers)-but these men have not the fibre. Their politics are of a sickly hue ...

... become irredeemably Radical. But the reverse has been the case. It was during the years of middle-class ascendency that the Whig - cum - Radical combination enjoyed an almost unbroken lease of power, if not of office. It was not till after Household Suffrage ...

... distressing, while that of five might suffice for serious embarassment. Sir EDWARD REED is not alone, as he himself has said; the Whig is not yet extinct, however quickly he be dying. Peradventure, if there be ten men of like opinions with himself Sir EDWARD ...