... Downing Street conclaves would make some of the courtly old Whigs turn in their graves. And the inclusion of Mr. Lloyd. Creorge would not he altogether to their taste- But the Radical Party—the Whig Party is for practical purposes extinet, and the * Liberal” ...

... that the Conservatives of to-day were very like the Whigs of fifty years ago—indeed, many modern Conservatives would have beenaccounted advanced Radicals then ; they had annexed the best of the old Whig traditions and grafied them on to the best part of ...

... (renewed laughter). Parties had changed since the days of their grandfathers ; the Conservative Party was .exa.ctl¥ what the old Whig Party (now called the Liberal Party) was 40 or 50 years ago, and he was not sure that if he had lived 50 years ago the Con ...

... private secretary to his father when he was Viceroy of Ireland in 1839, and to Lord Melbourne when Prime Minister. He became Whig Member for Plymouth in 1841, was a Lord of the Treasury in the Govérnment of Lord John Russell, and later Secretary to the ...

... Times announcement as * Conservative” candidate, and this, if correctly phrased, makes it the more interesting, seeing the Whig traditions of his house. We wish him complete success in his fight to recover what was and ought to be a Unionist seat, though ...

... vested interest.” Well, I reiterate my belief that this acceptance is due, not so much to'the permeating influence of the Whigs as it is to the appreciation of the more astute Liberal electioneerers of the fact that the farmers, as a class, are worth ...

... chiefly on his own side of politics, who took a very mistaken view of that great event. It had often been claimed for the Whig rarty, which was the Liberal Party in those days, and in its way a very advanced Liberal Party indeed, that they carried out ...