... regards slavery, the grievance was not so much that slaves were emancipated—and in any case no Englishman would reproach the Whigs with that great measure—but that Lord Grey’s Government allotted to Cape slave-owners only about a million and a quarter in ...

... style and humour.” . Those who have followed a recent controversy may be interested to learn that the Whig moralist, who had something of the Whig s suspicion of parsons, thought his own age the worst time for insolence, riot, pride, and presumption ...

... in declaring that his Reform Bill came down from heaven ready-sewn, in insisting that because Whigs and Radicals are equally Liberals, therefore every Whig is bound to suppress his convictions, whenever a Radical thinks their expression inconvenient. ...

... have by mutual under- standing and common consent shelved great plans of education and of sanitary rcform. which either the Whigs or the Tories would not for a moment have hesitated to propose had they been legislating and administering in the presence ...

... better still be abolished altogether, the Opposition would be decidedly the gainer. Mr. Courthope looks back to the days when Whigs and Tories faced each other in the unreformed, aristocratic House of Commons. As a matter of fact, the squabbles of family ...

... Gambetta's organ yesterday contained a leading article as full of sage reflections as if the writer were a veteran English Whig. The Monarchists will, of course, doubt the sincerity of this Republican modesty in the hour of triumph; but the very utterance ...

... his Cabinet would be his cold refusal to recognize the possibility of finding administrative talent outside the beaten way of Whig family friendship. The country will undoubtedly regard the promotion of this young politician as satisfac- tory in itself, ...

... palatable by a man who declared that the oniusprobaendi lay solely with the advocates of exclusion, and by a grotip of old Whigs who, if exclusion be not their principle, have no raison d gtre .1 t i the Paaca question, to be argued by a Minister who, ...

... Emperor approves of it or not. It is to be observed that all the members of the House of Commons who, without the advantages of Whig connection, have lately been offered office belong to that section which has strong and decided opinions, but which expresses ...

... because there is nothing left for them but to bluster. Yet although severe domestic discipline might be applied to the family of Whigs, one might, perhaps, have reckoned upon a different and more courteous bearing to the House of Commons. It is one thing to ...

... without a policy on the laica, Irishl, and Church questions. It is waiting to feel the pulse of Pih-lianlent, prepared to be Whig or Radical as the strength may seem to incline ?? or Democratic fanaticism, ready to propose a Radical revolution if it seems ...

... the Duke himself. This Duke sliowee his admiration for Charles James Fuox in a much more thoough manner for when the great Whig statesman died the Duke sold the wuole of one side of Long Acre, and also his property at Streatbam-which vwould unoi have ...