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MR. W. O'BRIEN AT BIRMINGHAM

... baving told Mr. Parnell a few years ago that he might have an Irish Republic if he pleased in return for assistance to dish the Whigs, * especially that arm-chair politician, Lord Hartington.” Mr. O'Brien declared that in 1885, when a tour in Ireland with Sir ...

TRYING A SOVEREIGN

... expressed his willingness to replace the coin, but it had been refused, and complainant claimed compensation for loss of time, whig‘h he do;ll:::li to give.—An assistant d to offe a sovere| to the 00.. p- wl!e:d:glch was mtuud,—lfla magistrate ordered defendant ...

1345,

... seen to be imperative towards the close of 1845, and Sir Robert Peel resigned office in order that Lord John Russell and the Whigs might come in and grapple with this vexed question. Lord John was unable to form a Ministry, however, and on the sth of December ...

1841,

... 1841, Perhaps the most remarkabie event of this year was the change of Ministry, consequent on the defeat of the Whig Government, Sir Robert Peel taking Lord Melbourne's place as Prime Minister. The Queen’s parting with Lord Melbourne was a very trying ...

TO BUILDERS

... HISTORY will be given n the CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB, by W, sde BURGH, Esq., M.A., Merton College, Oxford. FRIDAY, APRIL Isth.—THE WHIGS AND TORIES.” Tickets (which may be obtained frem li-\ Wordsworth, 2, Pottergate, and Mr. Clifford I'homas, High-street), for ...

LORD HARTIN GTON'S ATTITUDE

... ard restatement of the ciews to which he has loyally adhered since Mr. | Gladstone turned Separatiet, anathematised the | Whigs, and resolved to pit the masses agaiost the slasses. Lord Hartington has never receded an wch from the ground he took up when ...

LORD HARTINGTON AT NAIRN

... respect. I acknowie(?e that I am still proud of the name of Whig, and notwithstanding anything that may have happened in recent times in my political life, I profess still to maintain and uphold true Whig principles. It is therefore a source of no little sa ...

MR. GLADSTONE AND HIS PAST CAREER

... In 1851, in company with the Peelites, the Irish Roman Catholics, and the group led by Mr. Cobden, I actively resisted both Whigs and Tories, but the lastespecially, indefence of religious liberty on the Ecclesiastical Tithes Bill. 7. Unquestionably I differed ...

CURRENT OPINION

... their numbers, The most eminent of Mr. Gladstone's former colleagues, the ablest and most unimpeachable inberitors of | the Whig traditions to which he has lately appealed after ill-advised expressions of contempt, men distinguished for official expericnce ...

NOTABILITIES OF THE DAY

... bulky in appearance, and his igure was a very familiar one in the Lobby a year or two ago. He comes of a Whig family, but has sdvanced beyend the Whig traditions. Sir Arthur Sullivan and Mr. W. 8. Gilbert are moe more * collaborating.” Sir Arthur Sallivan ...

MR. BALFOUR AT GLASGOW

... along with them the EM bulk of the intellect and intelqigence of the Liberal party. = The Liberal Unionist ?ny embraced both Whigs and Radicals, and when he spoke of their leaders a prefound regret came over his mind that two great men had been removed from ...

CURRENT OPINION

... he asks them to jump out of the frying-pan into the fire, without even letting them have a look at the fire. s The Northern Whig declares that an Irish National Parliament and an Irish National Executive would lead to civil war. Belfast and the north could ...