... measures they had proposed in vain. The Lords baffled the Commons and laughed at them for being baffled. Lord Lyndhurst killed the Whig bills, and then once a year danced his war-dance, and counted the scalps he had taken. Could this happen again ? Could Lord ...

... nt can teach. The Refosm Bill of 8g6o, known to be no favourite with the Premier himself, was snubbed by the aristocratic Whigs, and allowed by Lord Palmerston to be so nearly defeated that Lord Russell was compelled to let it fall. No attempt to introduce ...

... quarters, which culminated in the bedchalaber episale on the resignation of Lord Melbourne's ministry. The ladies-in-wsaiting, of Whig fannilies who had been appointed by him were required to ?? by the incoming Minister, Sir Robert Peel; and her Majesty's successult ...

... Lyndhurst have so much the less reason to complain that Lord Campbell is impartially lavish of criticism and condemnation. Of the Whig party, perhaps Lords Grey and Lansdowne escape as easily as any, but Lords Melbourne and Althorpe have little reason to co ...

... political complexion of the Pall Mall Gazetle, translated into an equivalent American designation is, it seems, Old Line Whig. London amusements appear in a much more favourable light to Mr. Fiske than to most of our visitors, and, it may be added ...

... of the time, chief of chiefs and hero of heroes, Nawab Governor-General Lord Minto, Bahddur. So did the image of a Scotch Whig peer reflect itself in the mind of a Calcutta moulvie in i8io. The book is interesting as a specimen of Mohammedan benevolent ...

... more learned boards of electors in Oxford, pre- ferred the claims of party to those of learning and fitness. Hamilton was a Whig, and the majority of the council was Tory, and so Hamilton was rejected, and Wilson (a man, we need hardly say, of great eminence ...

... which it was originally caused. The present House of Lords is to a great extent the creation of Pitt and his successors, If Whigs and Tories had taken their turns of office in more equal propor- tions, the new peers introduced by one Minister would have ...

... most women she wa's a Whig ; wonl, tak Toryism naturally, as ducklings to the vater. Bt r aunt was a Whig from family and principle. AU the M clevilles had been Jacobites and Tories, the 1ralfaere5 al been pure Whigs. Pure Whigs-think of that a-a thi ...

... His life was long and fully occupied. For some years after the Reform Bill he was member for Cambridge, and acted as a steady Whig of the old school. His great pride, however, seems to have been in the part which he took in introducing the study of political ...

... ledged. In his literary generosity he knew no dis- tinctions of party. Though a Tory of the most un- compromising kind, the Whig Bishop Burnet, in the preface to the third volume of his History of the Reformation, wrote of him thus :- A gentleman in ...

... under any cir- cumstances. The infatuation of the Whig leaders made its return to power inevitable. Since the Queen's accession a combination of Whigs and Tories had governed the country with success. The Whigs had now determined that this system should be ...