... shifting of opinions by which the staunch Whig of one generation found him- self stranded and left behind as a Tory by the next gene- ration. Once upon a time we called the advanced guard of politicians New Whigs, now we call them Radicals. EARL RUSSELL ...

... a Whig humbug for not resigning at an earlier hour of the day ? Sir Sydney is no more a Whig than Mr. Odger is a metaphy. sician. He tells us that the old Whigs have declared war against workin, men as representatives. Where are the old Whigs? Where ...

... them; but he could remember when, as a Whig baby, he was taught to look on a Dissenter as being much in the same category as a murderer, and on a Dissenting chapel as a den of iniquity, to be quickly passed by. The Whig babies of a ?? generation had not these ...

... regarding each other with increas- ing coldness. The Whigs would unanimously support the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, whereas the Radicals consider that the proposal is a mere revival of despotism. The Whigs, while anxious to do justice to the Irish peasantry ...

... Brocas. It then passed away from that family and became 'a post in the gift of the Sovereign. Daring the ascendancy of the great Whig families, when there was a recasting and rearranging of offices, the post being one of profit under the Crown, was made dependent ...

... again. It was on the Report stage, and a motion to place the Clause in the position it originally occupied was moved from the Whig benches by Mr. Cartwright. There has been much conflicting statement as to how far the two sides of the House were fully warned ...

... League has received the important adhesion of one of the founders of the Free Church of Scotland, Lord Moncreiff, a zealous Whig, who was Mr. Gladstone's Lord Advocate, and whom he made Lord Justice Clerk and a Peer. The Free Church separated from the ...

... in the politics of her tile. Her method of winning votes for the Whigs was by laying siege to maen s hearts, and so gaining them over to her side. She Iwas called the Queen of the Whigs, and it is said that she won the Westminster election for Fox, ...

... the seals of office for a short time; but after the General Election of I835 Lord Melbourne became Prime Minister, and the Whigs in the Lower House thought themselves justified in again putting their candidate forward for the post of Speaker. This time ...

... IT0, __g 3 THE GOVERNMENT AND IRELAND.-The principal gift bestowed upon the nation by the victorious electors of i880 was a Whig-Radical Cabinet under the guidance of Mr. Gladstone. It has not proved such a boon as sanguine people anticipated. Concerning ...

... intervention of the proposed Court to holdings under the annual value of tool. This was one of those mutinies on the part of the Whig section of the Ministerialists on which the Conservative Opposition had so surely counted at the beginning of the Session. ...

... to the bonfire by a rejoicing mob of Whig statesmen, his political antagonists. The results of the General Election of tS30 culminated within a month of the reassembling of Parliament in the substitution of a Whig for a Tory Ministry, and William IV.'s ...