... that the whole end and aim of Whig statesmanship to-day is so to jerry mander the constituencies that the Whigs may remain in power for ever. When once the country realises that, there will be an end of the present Whig leaders. Ford Madox Hueffer Further ...

... certainly regards the women as Conservatives it is probable that, being a senti mental Whig of the type that the dear gods make blind, he regards the Democracy as Whig-Radical. So that he may have said that he would counter balance a limited Conservative-female ...

... the most leaden hours. Glasgow Evening T imes. The literary and artistic features are, as usual, admirably combined. Northern Whig. The fiction is igood, and the number altogether bright and attractive.- Halifax Daily Guardian. Originality is the keynote ...

... ISif^lonoda ttpmu/njfe vi V ON VARIOUS TOPICS OF THE WEEK Dishing the Whigs The inquiry addressed by Lord Beaconsfield in our last issue as to what was being done for his principles has not been left long unanswered. On Thursday the papers printed the ...

... turn to his opponents. We all want there to be a Government, and if a Tory one is impossible, well the next best thing is a Whig one. It is clear to the meanest intelligence that, for all practical purposes, the wings of Mr. Lloyd George have been clipped ...

... soldiers. People lose their tempers over him, families quarrel bitterly, just as they did in the good old days when Whigs and Tories were really Whigs and tones, politics were taken au grand serieux, and political warfare attained a height inconceivable to us ...

... bidding of Mr. Redmond and the Radical rabble, and against, as everybody believes, his own better judg ment and that of his Whig allies, was the culmination of a series of allusions on platform and in Press which directly threatened to compromise the Crown ...

... the Fitzwilliams, make also a wilderness of the countryside. Since the beginnipg of all things the Fitzwilliams have been Whigs. The present peer, however, would call himself, I suppose, a Liberal Unionist. Thz Chesterfield Sale Herefordshire collectors ...

... Bystan der will act as the proverbial red rag to a bull. They arouse in Alpine circles feuds compared to which those of the Whigs and Tories, the Guelphs, and the Ghibellines, and the Monta gus and the Capulets, are teacup storms. Miirren is, and wishes ...

... seat 1 Asquith spent the morning playing jig-saw. The six pieces of the puzzle were labelled Liberal, Labour, Nationalist, Whig, Socialist, and Independent Nationalist. He tried very hard to fit them into a complete picture, but the various angles drove ...

... seems merely one of procedure. Still, it has the material of a pretty split. We shall probably, ere long, see the two wings, Whigs and Radical-Socialists, fall apart. That Mr. Asquith can, consistently with his reputation, continue to lead so distracted ...

... veritable miracle. Let this be borne in mind. To the victors, the spoils. A return of the Radica's will be a triumph not for the Whig section of the Cabinet, which is fairly trust worthy and patriotic, but for the Radical-Socialist section. The stars in the ...