... have been all postponed to a necessity for conciliating old Whigs which may be real, but not apparent in the majority that sustains the Premier's power. Lord Clarendon, doubt, was Whig, and Whig of the purest breed, to whom Tory minister in a moment of ...

... subject of the Boundaries Bill, a London correspondent says it resembled, on a smaller scale, the famous secession of the Whigs from parliament in the time of Pitt and Fox. Earl Beauchamp, better known as Mr Lygon in the Commons, had placed a notice upon ...

... take coiupo-lo:s, pressmen. devils, ties. What means th:s change! The suzn of ll the story's, 'onres deprest are Whies, and Whigs in p-w'r are Tories. -Newcaeste Courant, November 4, 1732. ...

... without meaning when I say we want a little Whig treatment of the Irish question. But for me there is another aspect of your argument in which it is not less acceptable and important. As the chief part of the Whig peers and aristocracy have severed themselves ...

... accomplished facts, not again open to discussion, every one of the measures passed during the Whig era of statesman- ship, and has also accepted every dogma of the Whig political faith. Theoretically, there- fore, the Conservatives who supported Mr Hamond in ...

... always been the course of affairs, the Whigs at first submnerged, and then, as the forr? nil the torrernt dimi;nishes. rising again to the top. It does not appear, when electors are becoming Conservative, very hard for Whig representa. tives to become Conservative ...

... party which has trusted him, which means that the Old Cause and the troublesome Old Man are not to be got rid of by either Whigs or Radicals. Indeed, his letter reads like an appeal over the heads of both sections. The battle of the franchise, he says ...

... his party has to cling to ; but the name of the great whig leader con- ciliates few supporters and enlists no proselytes. This is no new thing. For the second tino in twelve years we see the whig party in a state of disorganisation and dissolution, and ...

... in 1453. It has been besieged twenty times in the course of several centuries. 1s1AsxAn.-The terms Whig and Tory were first used in 1680. The term Whig was applied to the Scotch Covenanters routed by Monmouth, and afterwards trans- ferred to those Englishmen ...

... been enormous. TLe use of colours, of coarse, eates from an earlier period than the election contests of Whig and Tory. We find a true blue Whig a common designation in the early part of the reign of George I. Is is not by any means clear how any modern ...

... uniform franl- insehldr i Sir Wiiam Follett broke the u5iformity by carrying a clause to retain the l'lfreeccofranchise-the Whigs accepting it in the stress of the contest with an intention to take an early opportunity to shake it off. But the work of the ...

... that the Whig party should coalesce with the Radical party, because in private life they heard no greater abuse of the Radicals and their leaders than came from the Whig party. Be heard it constantly in London, but when it came to voting the Whigs were like ...