... that they should be rendered amenable for any laches committed by the tenants for life of our public offices, who, whether Whig or Tory in office, can with the handsome salaries and easy hours allotted to them afford to see their mere transitory chiefs ...

... started for the coverts, to ascertain the form of the newcomers. Cabinet Ministers,” he said, generally are safe, except those Whig fellows 1 Granville is good enough ; but except Milner Gibson, who is downright homicidal, the Liberals do not care for shooting ...

... on the table. We cannot reconcile Sir John Hay’s assertion when in Opposition, that these officers had been cajoled by the Whig board to his announcement now, while in power, that they had not fulfilled conditions.” No one knows better than Sir John that ...

... by some that if the Prince were not her Majesty’s cousin, he would not have been rejected; but that being so, it looked like Whig principles to refuse him. That was an explanation not to credited; but it was asserted. Then again, others—professors of v ...

... captains. These gentlemen. Sir John Hay stated, in the course of a debate iu the House of Commons, had been “cajoled” by a Whig Board of Admiralty to accept retirement with the promise of increased rank and pay at period when they would have acquired ...

... So, slash away, was the word; “sink the expense—the Crown pays; Parliament docs not meet again till February —those shabby Whigs may then be out, and among the miscellaneous expenses the cost of turning the poor old President into a training-ship will ...

... administrations since its first formation has done its work well and expeditiously. It matters not whether have had in office a Whig, Tory, or Radical Postmaster-General or Secretary, all have been ready to bear testimony to the excellent manner in which Sir ...

... excellent number of general * interest. It opens with biographical sketch Charles, Earl Grey, showing that in his long career as Whig leader be did much that gives him an important place in the history of this century, in addition to his great achievement of ...

... campaign of Trafalgar applicable to the present day. We doubt whether he accurately represents facts when he tells us that the Whigs so vastly admired Napoleon that they would have unwittingly played into his hands had he restrained his ambition a few years ...

... advantage of our circulatiiß I think you will agree with mo that the naval advocate . y stoker would when in power, for very shame ■Whig Adtnir y, portion their avowed opinions. r X in the Navy the last Secre- of'the notion the fulfilment pledge, we nro^pretty ...

... two verses. by an undiscovered author on Jack ihomson . Who makes the shire one family, A freen to all in each degree, Gars Whig and Tory brithers be?— Jack Thomson. 1 John Thomson’s bairns means easy free— Auld Fife phrase for guid company— Our common ...

... s a short paper on Holland House, in which is reproduced several items of information as to the head-quarters of the great Whig party.” is rather heavy reading. but another chapter is promised which will cover the period from 1762 to the present time ...