... following year when the split on the Irish Home kale Bill occurred. As the result of that interview and of other consultations with Whig friends it is understood Mr Gladstone resolved to modify appreciably his attitude to the Church question. ...

... expected until tne end of September . In other directions there is a moderate trade doing-, tua without expansion . — Northern Whig . ...

... view taken by the Independent Liberals with respect to both questions was that real reform could not be looked for unless the Whig leader, were driven from the temporising attitude which they reganled as high stagesatanship. Mr Macaulay endorsed the views ...

... undergoing a radical change. the Dissenters were constantly subjected to irritating harassments. They found the Government and the Whig party generally willing to appease the Evangelicals by trivial concessions at the expense of their claims as Voluntarift , ...

... same—he, a retail dealer of woollens in the High Street of Edinburgh, could, through the influence which he exerted on the Whig Ministry, an the lay leader of Voluntaryism, do more to thwart and prevent the right settlement of one of the most important ...

... not exceed thoir immodiafe requirement . ; . / th pu ^ Ji stocks m t ^ eir liands musl ba v ^ ry tri . &i . ug . — Nortliem Whig , ' * An (? nsfc 11 . ...

... state of political par ties . There is no longer the old simple division of Whig and Tory , or Liberal a-nd Oonserrative-Thq names survive in loose popular usage ; but Tory and Whig _ are now used chiefly for purposes of invective , and Liberal and Conservative ...

... to Mr Nl'Laren to surrender was great. and if he had been a sell-seeking man it would doubtless have been inesistible. The Whig party was powerful. and it had many gifts to bestow for such a man as the leader of the taberalieni of Edinburgh and of Scottish ...

... duty, to act in agreement with the Parliamentary efforts of the Leaguers. He felt that no advantage was to be gained for the Whig party by a temporising attitude, and he showed not a little of the spirit of the man who says let justice be dune though the ...

... leaders se keenly re%eatoll him obstinacy. In December 1843 Mr John Bright wrote Mr M'Laren As to Macaulav, he is the chief of Whig way house men. is a waiter not ou Prividence, but on the fortunes of the party to which he has lent himself. You must cure ...

... rejoice at the result ; such a decisive demonstration cannot fail to have a powerful influence on the opinions and policy of the Whig party. Mr Macaulay, however, was greatly inciensod, and his angry letter to Mr M'Laren did not a little to forfeit for him ...

... mistake, and he would not declare for compnimise. to retain the friendship of Mr Macaulay, sir to purchase the favour of the Whig party. ...