... most brilliant and thoughtful exponents of Whig policy. He has been, as we think he said on one occasion, first an Englishman and then a Whig. For ourselves we have too often had to find fault with the Whigs. Too often the necessity has arisen, brought ...

... had then few states- men ill their ranks, and their influence was felt in the division rather than in the ?? Whigs of 1763, no longer the Whigs of Cing William or Queen Anne, may be justly termed the founders of that distinguished party which bears their ...

... DnEr'NDA EST -the blue book of the elder Cato, on the return of that right honourable gentleman from his expedition as one of the Whig commissioners for examining the affairs of Magna Carthago-was merciful and complimentary compared with the language held to ...

... whole world is divided into tories andl whigs on the one hand, and the prince regent and Lord MIoira on the other. And in Carlton House you see a perfect Divine Comedy reversed-beain- ning with the paradise of the Whig party anid plunging thruglh its purgatory ...

... we read this: - The Rockingham Whigs must be esteemed as a revival of that party which had obtained for the country the Revolution. of' 1688, and had established the House of Hanover on the thronii. The virtue of the Whigs had greatly declined under Newcastle; ...

... It is quite unexampled at the present day that men of such sagacity and such firmness should be employed by either party, Whig or Tory. We need care little for speeches. icholas. Perhaps so. But sometimes a red-hot word, falling upon soft tinder and ...

... interesting fragments of local story that the mind can have to dwell upon. It begins with Tories paramount, and ends with Whigs in the ascendant. It begins with a picturesque old capital, inhabited by clever men, not too many to know and watch and talk ...

... merchant, of Milbanlk, for a short time M.P. for Malden, Conservative; Mr J. G. Itebow, of Wivenhoepark, who professes moderate Whig principles; Mr Hamilton, a barrister on the Home Circuit, Conservative; and Mr Havens, a non-practising barrister, of the borough ...

... non-conformity was then visited, down to the present day, most of their descendants have remained attached to Dissent, and to those Whig principles which were at that time so intimately connected with the cause of religious liberty. Mr Lombe Taylor's father was ...

... in the book whose character and course of action would be compre- hended by a stranger who tooki up the volumes to study the Whig Ministry of 1SO. Mr Roebuck's heroes are only ?? llrougham and the Duke of Wellingtun; and to the former of these he has been ...

... and other Whig ce- lebrities, receive frequent mention ; and Sir Robert has often occasion to speak of Mr Hume, and his eternal interference on every question, with less consciousness than we should have expected from so good a Whig of the real ...

... than the way in -which the new play of St CurSid or Dorothy's Fortune opens. Out of a wittily and well-written scene between a Whig minister and his nephew, in Jacobite days, the old gentleman smelling out a Stuart plot in everything, and the young one having ...