NOTES OF THE WEEK

... Speeches are seldom models of good English; but the Radicals will not fail to remark for their encouragement in helping the Whigs to office, that there is no promise of a Reform Bill. Then follows a notice of the Italian war and the peace of Villafranca ...

MR. EVELYN ASHLEY'S LIFE OF LORD PALMERSTON

... of Canning with the Whigs; and it is- curious to find in a letter of Lord Palmerston to his brother, dated May 4,. 1827, a description of the behaviour of the Whigs differing very widely indeed from the account given of it by the Whig leaders themselves ...

THE POWER OF MUSIC

... asids, ' 'What sfgnifidm for ?? chide For whet was densn bafore them I ' ' Lt Whig end Tory a' groaee ' l)ig sod Tory, Whig and Tery. Let Whig end 'ory a' egres, So deap ypur Whig-i g-inoram, , . 7et Wnig and Tory a' agree, ' To speL this nichit.in mirth ...

THE LIFE OF LORD SHELBURNE.*

... we think, calls Chathamite Whigs. The position of this little knot of statesmen between the two main parties in the State corresponds to that occupied by the Peelites after the death of Sir Robert Peel. They were not Whigs and they were not Tories, and ...

ON THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS

... take coiupo-lo:s, pressmen. devils, ties. What means th:s change! The suzn of ll the story's, 'onres deprest are Whies, and Whigs in p-w'r are Tories. -Newcaeste Courant, November 4, 1732. ...

Biographies

... March 29, 1799, and began public life as a.Canningite, or Conservative Whig, and did not definitely join the Tories until he was thirty-five years of ave. But though nominally a Whig (for his family belonged to that party), his early speeches show in many ...

POETRY

... glass of wine; The day brave Lyndhurst's eighty-eight We've won by eighty-nine. Chorus-Then let us toast, &c. ve Repentant Whigs and Tories true Fi Did honestly combine; M The dirty Coalition-crew StU Are licked by eighty-nine. inj St. Martin's Hall may ...

NOTES OF THE WEEK

... further seek his frailties to disclose. Leave him to the bosom of the House of Lords. Vade in pace. Look we now from Whigs at ease to Whigs at work; and we observe that the Ministers who are seeking re-election are earnestly labouring to impress their c ...

Literature

... of the citizens with the Whig party had remained unbroken, but there uwere evident symptoms of restiveness on the par. of, the forner. They had no absolute objections to urge against the candidates offered to them by the Whigs, bout they complained that ...

SHERIDAN

... seemed to indicate that his political career was at an end. The new leader of the Whig party was not the man to sympathize with Sheridan as Fox had done. The new ally of the Whig party, Lord Grenville, was still less so. Sheridan, indeed, had the Prince of ...

Poetry

... Queen; And every trce comes peeping forth, In robes of emterald itreen; Tie biris with mnsic til the nir, Joy trembling on their whig; All N;aturesttilo: so sweet-so fair- So lovely is the Striltg. ...

THE LIFE OF LORD SHELBURNE.*

... never to have forgiven his master for the part which he played on this occasion. The Ministry was made up of Chathamites, Whigs, and King's friends, and on Shelburne fell the whole labour of maintaining the influence of the first: The representative ...