... buckler of strength to his political friends, who had the humour of Sheridan and Charles Fox to withstand, and his skits on the Whigs sometimes hit them very hard. His easy satire on the late Mr Whitbread, beginning— I am like Archimedes for science and skill ...

... loyalist vote added to the absentee electors leaving the Parnelhte majority of only 4200, the real national majority over the Whigs, Tories, and absentees is 143,834. The Daily Express to-day observes that the Ministerial County Government Scheme must be ...

... except mere numbers. The most eminent of Mr Gladstone's former colleagues, the ablest and most unimpeachable inheritors the Whig traditions to which has lately appealed after ill-advised expressions of contempt, men distinguished for official experience ...

... opportunity to official vanity trying its hand what iu Ireland seems so necessary the dignity f every Administration, it Whig Tory—a political quasi-political prosecution.—Your obedient servant, J. B. MORE ARRESTS EXPECTED. Our Dublin correspondent ...

... to the Gladstonian party. They consider its members as occupying in regard to social questions the same position that the Whigs did in re- gard to Parliamentary reform. By their tepid advocacy of the rights of labour they do more mischief than open, avowed ...

... a very clever, well-educated woman, who had read all books worth reading from her childhood down to the last, and a fierce Whig of the old school. She was all for Mr Fox, whom she had seen, as well Mr Burke, Mr Pitt, and Mr Sheridan ; and she was also ...

... appropriate in an invidious sense. He was probably not even thinking of the historical feat of stealing the clothes the bathing Whigs, or of more recent charges against him and his colleagues of picking the pockets their opponents. He meant that the old Tory ...

... two parties as they face one another, Unionists on the one side, Gladstonians on the other, more than in the days of Tory and Whig, Conservative or * Liberal, composed re- spectively of the haves and have-nots ? ...

... such places. He thought they should not pass over in silence the infamous slanders one of the most contemptible white-washed Whigs now masquerading in Westminster as Irish member. Few people in Ireland cared much for what might emanate from the high-bred ...

... development local government in the strict sense tiae the establishment provincial councils would more with the views of the Whig leaders than the constitution of a national with large executive would much less likely to meet with opposition from the Loyalists ...

... POLITICAL CRISIS. The Standard, commenting on Mr Chamberlain's speech, asks : —Docs Chamberlain imagine that wiil carry the Whigs with him in his crusade against the House of Lords ? The agitation young as yet, but it has proved formidable enough to cause ...

... inquired of one of his ministers the difference between a Whig and Tory. *' I'lease your Majesty. conceive the difference be merely nominal. The Tories are Whigs when they waut places, and the Whigs Tories v. hen they have got them. You may call me irritable ...