... formal and suppositi- r tious lines of Whig circumvallation on such a question, I was a sad encroachment on the domain of a party 1 which wished to be supposed the incarnation of the popular cause. But while the Whigs were labourimig I to nakie their cause ...

... generation of Whigs by sv their Radical allies has been that Reform was with them td a political stalking-horse for deluding the simple; as Even now we hear household suffrage talked of by or- thodox Whigs as an extreme measure, which the Whigs vi would ...

... the party exigencies of the mo- was mont. Chs Earl Granville~usad to be a Whig, and the Duke of dien 3cc- Argyle was a Seotels Whig by nature and tradtoRet- the Arc they Whigs still, or -what? Arc they not pre- porn olie pared to take up vote by ballot ...

... WHERE ARE THE WHIGS? ,1 -_ r( 1Te two old parties in the State have disappeared. a: There is neither Whig nor Tory. The political cur- rent has been too strong for both. They either have tc gone down and vanished, or have been carried onward hi to new ...

... demlr- cracy. The sanme person who would hav been a Whig in 1712 wohld have beers a Tory in 7ge,8. For, onr examnirationa, it wil. be foeisir that, in trearny ?? particulars, a modern Torry ret settibles a Whig of Queent Anne's reign, and a Tory of Queet Anrre's ...

... is haunted that the Tories have been masquerading in robes that only'fit e Whigs, and that Whigs alone are entitled to V wear. Indeed it is not indisposed to claim that the Whig rate of progress would be more decorously gradual than' that of the Tories ...

... THE WHIG WHIP TO THE RESCUE. C- GREAT allowance is to be made for Mr Glad- r d stone when he touches on the policy of the C l Government. On other subjects he is all that ever he was-commands the devotion of his t s followers, the respect of his adversaries ...

... Gladstone's late appeal to us to reason in the spirit of the Whig party was an exhortation founded on an argument put forward by Lord Edmond Fitamsaurice. This was a most fair argument, and Whig only in the sense that it was reasonable and moderate. But ...

... Edinburgh and Mid-Lothian under the auspices of Mr Adamn, himself a Whig of the Whigs, and the acting executor of the policy of Lord Hfartington and his friends?1 But we feel that the Whigs are laying themselves open to something like a charge of ingratitude ...

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... knowledge of life, shrewd observation of character, and -many amusing side lights which make it plain that the guiding motive of Whig politics was then (what Tories have maintained it always was and is) a system of adroit appeals to the self interest of all ...

... there, and~sord Salisbury; Mr Goschen .sat: 3cheek by jowvl w~ith Mr Plunlkett; anld the; ,Tory iMr WA. H.' ,'mitlh and the. Whig Mr B Finlay found themselves standling shou~lder:i . to shoulder with .Radicals so pronounrced Las. Mr Rylands and Mr C3raig ...