... rather have seen Mrs. Fletcher in a box at a theatre than have seen Mrs. Siddons on the stage of the same theatre. She was a Whig, and long a widlow. She i married for love of. what marriage is said seldom to give-liberty. Her husband, Archisiald Fletcher ...

... Heuse blue-book dispels many popular beliefs current in society. Thus the often-repeated story that Lord Macaulay had sold his Whig history to the Messrs. Longman for an annuity is to be upset by the Custom House fact that the old histolrian is the proprietor ...

... changes, 'the lot k-fell upon Whig, which was 'very significative, as well as It ready; being vernacular in Scotland, from whence it was - borrowed, for corrupt and sour whey. Defoe accepts this i le derivation of Whig; and says.the use of it began in ...

... colour, with buttons half way up the arm sr .i on the outside. Blue and red marked the Tory wearer, and blue A it- and buff the Whig. The Radicals were then in the shell, for if ui is any one of a more liberal feeling called out reform too pi loudly, he ...

... R}2Wobert W'Nalpole -unless the trial of Sacheverell will justify the introduction of the character of the future glory of the Whigs. The last Bombay mail announces the safe arrival in Bom- bay of Mr. Layard, the Nineveh scholar and ex-l. P. for LAyiesbury ...

... or the Blues of the Roman circus against the Greens. In his infancy he had heard so much talk about the villanies of the Whigs, and the dangers of the Church, that hel had become a furious partisan when lie could scarcely speak. I Before he was three ...

... combination as that which, for a series of years, vainly endeavoured to drag down the great defender of the Revolution. Discarded Whigs; orators of shiming parts and'of 'the highest promise, *hose eager ambition was baffled by his arrogan''e'of' 'power ;, par- ...

... the stable, entered the ale-house, to regale themselves, and crack their jokes over their good fortune in capturing the old Whig. Gourlay had now an opportunity of escaping, and he did not lose it. Getting on to the back of one of the horses, he managed ...