... of the tale may have been current at the time, since we read, on the authority of Moore himself, that he rebuked an eminent Whig patriot, now ennobled and living in dignified retirement, for asserting that Scott had never been heard to utter one generous ...

... er of Greenwich Hospital, and was appointed a Lord of the Treasury in 1841, which ha only held for a short time. When the Whigs regained office in 1846 he was appointed a Junior Lord of the Admiralty, which he held till 1852, and was again appointed in ...

... England is advocated. It may appear impertinent for a fossil, an obstructive, one who still ventures to sign himself An Old Whig, to offer advice to tbe -dvtr.ee guard of the Liberal party. Under ordi- nary gcod management the return of the Liberal party ...

... retired list, with the rank of general, in 18S1. He represented Lichfield in the House of Commons from 1837 to July, 1805, in the Whig interest. He was Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal to the Queen from July, 1840, to March, 1852, from December, 1852, to March ...

... Government, and vote through thick and thin with the Whig Ministry. He called upon the agri- cultural body to beware of the false pretensions of Whig Protectionists, tor whenever the interests of the Whig Go- vernment clashed with those of agriculture, the ...

... journalists are lo3t in sur- prise (and well they may be) at this inexplicable coup d'etat of Lord John Russell's, whereby the whig Sir Forcible Feeble, has driven from the royal councils the only member of the Cabinet who possessed the double advantages ...

... to his views on the Irish Question, which was then, as now, a burning one ; and I venture to say that the vast majority of Whigs and Tories in the country will all agree with the sentiments of the Mr. W. Ewart Gladstone of 1837, which are as follows : ...

... expressed, some sneers I ?? have been vented, at the charge that Mr. Labou- -5 chere is a Whig, and that Lord Palmerston has - been forced to fall back on the Whig party to form bis Ministry. For our own parts, we thought that the last of that once famous ...

... them, and as I am a fossil Tory I do not pretend to understand that peculiar variety of human nature found in those hapless Whigs who think Mr. Gladstone generally wrong but always vote that he is absolutely right, .till it seems to me that even if I were ...

... What, then, will be the condition of parties ? The* Radicals wtil number 250, the Conservatives ->50 the Whigs 80, and the Parnellites 80. If the Whigs and the Parnellites vote with the Radicals, they will have a majority of 160 over the Conserva- tives ...

... schedules of Mr. Bright) are, wherever Radical declaimers have advanced in professed antagonism to the Whigs, exactly be measures m the suggestion of which the Whigs : axe already anticipated them by several years. It is shown a,so thatthe suspension of the Reform ...

... contumely and contempt by a Whig Government, they can accomplish magnificent triumphs. (Cheers.) I endeavoured to ascer- tain from a supporter of the Whigs his opinion as to the causes which had brought destruction upon the Whigs, but he could not tell me ...