... rendered one incalculable service to the English Democracy-it ejected the Whigs from the bosom of the Lberal party. We will not deny that at one period in their history the Whigs did very consider- able work in the cause of liberty and popular rights. ...

... we will at once admit, said some things that were quite true. Mr. Gladstone did undoubtedly go to the countrywith a paltry Whig program~meinl885, while it was from the Birmingham A-acle that an advanced, though very crude, Democratic policy issued. Had ...

... idea- Homo Rule. For the rest he was to all intents and purposes a Whig. Sir William ?? was simply a follower who waited to see which way the cat jumped. Mr. John Morley had got the Whig ideas of forty veers ago, and wa s different from the others in tluat ...

... REFO~tCIB i lng to the Dernocrucy than to find the Whigs driven into undertaking popuflar legislation, then assuming the credit to themselves, and finally denouncing the agitators, through whom alone the said Whig.e have been forced to move. Sir Henry James ...

... statesmanship. But can he lead the Liberal UnioniAt faction P It is difficult to see how he can. That fiction is nothing but a Whig clique, ab3olute!y with- out any hold over the constituencies. At the next election men will vote either Radical er Conservative; ...

... entertaining to English Whigs, who only looked to their own party chances. But no man in all England ever for one moment suffered the idea to enter his head that Ireland was to be in any case permintted to govern herself, And British Whigs could well afford ...

... DsoucrATS. Whig party is nearly extinct, nnd that it will be killed and buried at tle rext General Election. But it must be remembered that a portion of the old Wsbig peurty remained with Mr. Gladatote at the time of the Home Rule split, and that Whig counlsels ...

... summoned at all at the open- ing of Parliament. But. if once the 1ouse of Lords is reformed after the manner favoured by some Whig peers and academic Liberals, it will at once receive an immense accession of strength; it will be representative, it will speak ...

... began to approach the Demo. eratic etandard. Most unwillingly did both Houses of parliament Consent to the Act of 1837. The Whigs were its chief opponents. They wrecked a Liberal Ministry in 1866, just tas they wrecked one, twenty years later, rather than ...

... Court for their impudent selfish. ness, and to secure the opening of Hampton Court Park to the public, However, 105 Tories and Whig Coercionists voted in favour of excluding the public- muanv of tho majority being London Tory metubers- aud Mr. Pickerspill's ...

... not like to face Trades Unions. Could they turn the clock back twenty-flie voeers such a defense might be listened to. }3oth Whig and Tory had legislattd and legalized Trades Unions. It was lbe onlvy nseals by which tnen could obtain their just and equiitable ...

... unwholesome Toiwy fat that they now declared they would have nothing more to do with him. The Liberal party could do without Whigs of Lord Hartingtou's stamp and Radicals of the Chamberlain type, and would not have them if they asked to come back on their ...