... THE AYLESBURY DIVORCE SUIT I Reported Settlement. I [SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE ECHO.] The Belfast Northern Whig says it is reported that the Marquis of Aylesbury has abandoned the proceedings for divorce against his wife, and that a reconciliation having ...

... Bolton King then contra/11e the Whig. Liberal. Imperialism of that day with that Tory Imperialism which ended so disastrously for Great Britain. and the Empire. In all its aspects and in all its dealings with the Colonials Whig Imperial. ism was the very opp3sito ...

... other method will Lord Lome get over the fact that his father and he, who repre- sent the great Whig house of Argyll, which was Whig in the brave old days when Whig meant Radical, are cordial and even violent supporters of the party now installed in power ...

... THE FUTURE OF LORDDUFFERIN The Belfast Igolthcm Whig London correspon- dent the present Government be in office whew, Lord Dufferin returns from India he will be^nade Foreign Secretary, and Sir Michael Hicks-fcea'Ch will take Lord Stanley cf ) Preston's ...

... the National Liberal federation, says Ten yar., ago the caucus was an object of terror to the Tories, and ot derision to the Whigs, who were unwilling to recognise that the day of wire pullers and of cliques was over, and that of popular control had set ...

... an's Magazine on the Name of Political Parties. The word Whig is of Scotch origin, but the real meaning is lost in obscurity. says the writer. On turning to Brewer I find that he derives Whig from Whir/gam more, a corruption of Uf/ham more (pack saddle ...

... MR PARNELL AND HOME RULE. REPORTED IMPORTANT CHANGE OF ATTITUDE. The London correspondent of the Northern Whig says t, dty that he has it on unquestionable authority that Mr Parnell, having come to the conclusion that so long as the Irish party insists ...

... IRISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT SIR E. WATKIN TO THE RESCUE. The London correspondent of the Belfast Northern Whig to-day say.. Sir Edward Watkin is about to submit to Liberal Unionist Lords a bill to reform Irish local government, which be hopes will obtain the ...

... secret that he is the foremost of that eminent band tr of Whig statesmen whom the Itads- oi calm have proscribed, and that, when of the constituencies have made the promised b clean sweep of both Whigs and Tories, no hi E places are to be provided in the ...

... acquiesce in the monopoly of administration by a few great Whig families; that Reform and Libe- ralism are not mere pass-worcte invented to faci- litate the admission of scions of three or four Whig ducal houses into the high offices of State. Of course ...

... solemn work to under- take, and Mr Gladstone bad terrible obstacles to overcome but no matter what might be the defections of Whig lordlings or treacherous Liberals, he felt certain that the masses of the people would support the Premier and demand that ...

... political parties in this country, two great regions of opinion, and the Whigs were in one and the Toiies in the other and they could never come together. But^ moie than that, the Whigs were justly proud of a glorious political past, but the Tories had none ...