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POETRY

... WE SHOULD LIKE EXCESSIVELY TO SnE.- The Ghost of Crinoline. TOUCHUNG THE RUSSELL REsxGNATIOx.-We knew it was all nonsense. A Whig is like the old French Guard -he dies, but never surrenders. A BOAST WORTHY or JouHT BULL.-A new pavement has been laid down ...

ART NOTES

... one that exercised J considerable influence over English literature, v was the Kit Cat,founded in 1688 by the p leading Whigs of the day, and held in Shire- l lane, at the house of a pastry cook named Christopher- Cat. SAmong the members were Addison ...

POETRY

... Pouh piee seperehced on mkulls not quite patrician; The sate enseles '5 radiant with a glory Farors but in freedom's Isle of Whig and Tory I The meSe, with deep reluctance, must omit Theo laic rivalry of fruits and flowers, and route and cabbages that might ...

UNSWORTH AND SILVER-TONGUED WROE

... of the county. Warden Wroe, the Rev. William Assheton, rector of Prestwich, and the Rev. Thomas Gipps, rector of Bury (all Whig Churchmen), were appointed by William Hulmne, of Huhnc, to nominate his ex- hibitioners to Brasenose College, Oxford, and I ...

A SONG FOR THE TIMES

... at obery ting; 13' Tille him praise de lords and peOrs, Slwetla m s yellideco lstrdhips ears; Snolet?aimptory, sometimes him whig, Murehimes for neider he onae a fig. o jnes1 doe pnper etamp; stomp de pap?r, stamp, staieP .0 t alt nigtht, till do broad ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... Robert Peel; the RepeaLof the ii Corn Laws; the return of the Whigs to power; ;e the religious movemenb of the nineteenth century; the foreign policy of Aberdeen and ePalmcrston; and Whigs, Conservatives, and Peelites. Least Said goonext MenidnL By Ages ...

REVIEWS

... '11 at jl l if ina to their fears, by witichc i,~prsetf.ilgt, aolorl-e appealralpai 11de noe, tht Ii.- pices oif tile o ?? Whig leader.' CY]>1 Tl ~aCloIlos Ilaillf It 5l1s -ire 'crivell tia Nhi lial hot A I)~jv pus himselfto o particular Cotin- fitl ...

THACKERAY'S SONGS AND BALLADS

... Peg of Limavaddy. Beauty is not rare In the land of Paddy, Fair beyond compare Is Peg of Limavaddy. Citizen or squire, Tory, Whig, or Radi- cal, would all desire E Peg of Limavaddy. k Had0 Homer's fire, Or that of Sergeant Taddy, Meetly I'd admire Peg of ...

From Fun

... capital chance. The question is, however, whether or not each Wigan Tory has not a -right to vote for both Tory and Whig can. didates F FILIAL AFFECTION.-School Board Examiner (im. proving the occasion): Children, love and honour vour parents ...

ART NOTES

... Academy at allh The man in Cavendish- square, as Reynolds styled him, and who painted Tory ladies as Sir Joshua painted Whig ladies, declined the honour of member- ship of the R.A. About this time Romney, who had left his wife and family to fare scantily ...

MAGAZINES FOR JANUARY

... of emancipaton, and his advocacy of social and politica reforms which were not carried out till long after his death. The Whigs and Imperial Federation makes that political party responsible for a colonial policy which is lead ing, on te part of somoe ...