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... WHIG AND TORY. The name Whig is derived from the Celtic ugham, a sort of large saddle with bap attached to it, in among the freebooters of the herders of Scotland ; hence those robbers were known to the Highlanders by the name of whiggam-more, or big-saddle ...
... THE TORIES AND THE WHIGS. When Waterloo was fought the Tories repealed fifteen millions of Wass as well as stopped borrow- When Mr Gladstone took off the paper duties he borrowed money to pay for fortifications. In 1823 the Tories took off all the amend ...
... THE WHIGS AND THE FARMERS. The division list of the House of Lords on the Duke of Richmond's amendment remarkable as showing that, with the exception of Lords Bedford and Campendown, the Whig peers sold against the Interests of the fanners. The Conservative ...
... THE WHIGS RUINING TRADE. To buy cheap and sell dear was the idol upon whose shrine the burghers of Rotterdam and Ghent worshipped, and to traffic in gold they sacrificed the dominion of the world which Venice had allowed by her purely selfish policy to ...
... judges: The new Whig jejuna dentibus titer—rushes at the thought of an elevation from the Bar to the Bench while his friends are in office. He does not even hesitate to suppress facts iii his apparently forced candour. He must, forsooth, be asked the ...
... ANOTHER WHIG DEFEAT. The followiag • is the al declaration of the ppooll in Dover:—Barnet (Conservative). 1,416; Forties (Liberal). 1.0116; MsYnriti Tim Times is so impressed with the tenor of so niany goverowoat reverses that it 000ncils Mr. tiladstone ...
... RADICALS v. WHIGS. The Imperial Baler says :— It would be u absurd as it would be Lopelee:: to endeavour to disguise the fact, that the Administration which the right honourable men , ' r for Green. eich is at the present momei. engaged in forming is ...
... WHIG CAMPAIGNS AND TIIEIa 1. -Simian Arrouaii Was, 1881). Ititauvra.---Masaacre of Maiwautl ; 2,400 killed and wounded. The 'mutate from Candabar. Advance of toward Herat. DICNIONIITLATION, BsPramaim 1880. Essuvrs.—Alienation of the goodwill of Turkey ...
... mercenaries of the Whig Gevern: is 1D From that time to the present the Irish co tuencies have manifested the most detorn of aversion against any candidate smallest possible affinity with Whigs sod whig ouse The conduct of the Whigs on Irish ques the wears ...
... FOUR YEARS OF WHIG FINANCE. Tory yeas, 1880. 83 millions. Wbig year, 18844 ..7 million.. Net increase, 4 millions. LOCAL TAXA MN. (Animist raised by local rate..) Tory year. 1M0. .. 26 Whig year, 1884, 30 millions. Increase, ...
... TAXATION UNDER A WHIG ADMINISTRATION. The supplementary estimates presented last week raised the total estimated expenditure for the year 1884.5 to X 89,556,000, exclusive of any vote for the expenses of the reinforcements in the Soudon beyond the actual ...
... THE WHIG ERNMES Frmos d. AdrPrtiser. The last Liberal Couaervative and Whig Ministry fell to pieces by a process decay and ditifitecration, in the curse of which, first the Peehie element—conaistitig of Lord Aberdeen, the'! 'aeof Newcastle, Mr Gladstone ...