... of Lord Kinnaird, who, entering the Diplomatic Service at an early age, was for some time private secretary to the popular Whig peer, Lord Durham, becoming afterwards a partner in the banking firm of Ransom and Co. He was M.P. for Perth 1837-9, and again ...

... two families in whcm the intere-t centres and the contention between Roundheads and Cavaliets, Hlanoverians and Jacobites, Whigs and Tories. There is the dis- possessed heir in exile, returning at last to disappoint the loyal heart which placed its wvhole ...

... he became a Lord of the Admiralty, and Financial Secretary to the Treasury in i86.. When Mr. Disraeli cleverly dished the Whigs (to borrow Eail Cranville's expression) by his Reform Bill, MNr. Childers retired with the other Ministers; but when the Reform ...

... excited state of public feeling in England provoked by the events of the French Revolution. The popular opinion associated the Whig party with the revolutionary movement; and although it was obvious that General Dumouriez, at that time the most conspicuous ...

... the Cave is being filled with denizens of the former type, with those who would stand fast, not those who would push on. The Whigs, so runs the story, are getting alarmed at Mr. Gladstone's vigour, and wish themselves well out of the business, so they are ...

... presidency of the Earl of Dart- mouth. Amongst the speakers was Lord Lyttleton, who urged that Church Defence was not a question of Whig or Tory, and advised the Conservatives not rashly to throw away the aid which such men as the Duke of Argyll, Mr. Goschen, ...

... chairmen, butchers, sweeps, coalheavers, and the honest mob, equally hired for these demon- strations by their opponents. Whig candidates would be, with diffi- culty, rescued from imminentperil of life and limb, and the other side approached the hustings ...

... unfor- tunately denisd Mr. Scott.-The resignation by Lord Brabourne of his seat on the Farmers' Alliance marks the severance of Whig or moderate Liberal interests from what has now become an almost exclusively Radical ?? Axe has recently delivered a lecture ...

... and Jeifrey, of Brougham and Hornet-, of Christopher North and the Ettrick Shepherd ; the age when Tory Blachtc'ood and Whig Review had their birth. The great lights died out one by one others, but none so brilliant, have shone in their places. They ...

... followers should pursue. The language is exceedingly moderate-indeed the scritilnents might have been those of an old English Whig. Of course he strongly advocates the adoption of scruatin de liste. The policy to be pursued by the Assembly should be essentially ...

... opponents on both sides of the House. Accordingly Mr. Parnell and his friends sat silent, reserving their strength whilst Whigs and Conservatives forced the running. Whenever these showed signs of fatigue there was always 'an Irish member ready to take ...

... represent that constituency, until, by the death of his father, he was elevated to the Peerage. He was asteady supporter of Whig principles, and has often afforded valuable aid to the party. It was, however, on the Turf that lortl Zetland was most eminently ...