... of the House of Commons on a question of first-rate political importance. The natural sequence of events, according to old Whig doctrine, demands that the resistance of the Lords should be overborne. That is obviously Lord Rosebery's policy. If the question ...

... then we shall be no nearer to the solution of the problem with which Lord Rosebery is face to face. By the desertion of the Whig Peers from the Liberal Party in 1886, the Second Chamber has been rendered useless as a Chamber of revision, and the authority ...

... name, and of our gentle Stevenson. Alan would never have betrayed, as Dreyfus did, though a proclaimed turn-coat, a whilorn Whig and present Jacobite; but what would have been his attitude under such circumstances ? One fancies that the sword of Alan would ...

... scruples on the part either of Whig or Tory Tartut:es from dishing the Gladstonians in the matter of Home Rule, or any other issue, just as the penultimate Lord Derby, with Mr. l)israeli as his instrument, dished the Whigs in the business of Household Franchise ...

... some years ago'said, We Tories are not hampered by any blind devotion to imaginary dictates of political economy as your Whigs arc. This seems likely to prove a true prediction ; for apparently the economic conscience of Mr. BALFOUR and Lord SALISBURY ...

... the geographical difficulties with which Mr. Bright tried to frighten the Eighty Club. He had no patience with the old Whig dodges. (I remember, by the way, on another occasion, I,ord Randolph saying to me, in connexion with a proposed deputation ...

... occasions you have spoken of yourself as an old Whig nor has any member of that party done more than yourself in social conversation, and the general atmo-phere of your private life, to embellish and perpetuate the Whig tradition of old-world literary culture ...

... tei:s us, is not compromised by association with the Tory Party. I t clearly is not the faith of old Liberals or of even old Whigs. one can hardly imagine an old Liberal of 1884 or an old IVhig of 1832 saying that the House of Lords had done nothing ...

... chance, so long as a decisive general election is )et in the future. To-day, and while you have not formally abandoned the Whig camp, the game in any event cannot go greatly against you. To suppose that a man of your Grace's native t-hrew,lness and acquired ...

... teruples—or the superstitions, by whichever name they should be called—proper, as some may think still, to 4 e head of a Revo,ution Whig fami!y. The wheels of , it He la , not more than of your political, maehint.ry move slowly, and with a good deal of protest ...

... inherited predilections into public issues, and have thus alternatively seemed to figure as a Conservative open to conviction, or a Whig not wholly averse from reform. One solid advantage over Cardinal Manning you possess. A Romanist by birth, you have not the ...

... husband, who entered Parliament in Ib3l as member for the rotten borough of Hindon, in Wiltshire, was a leadin i ; member of Whig Administrations for forty years. lie was called to the !louse of Lords in 184 d, and succeeded to the title of Stanley of Alderley ...