... other method will Lord Lome get over the fact that his father and he, who repre- sent the great Whig house of Argyll, which was Whig in the brave old days when Whig meant Radical, are cordial and even violent supporters of the party now installed in power ...

... Tories began to call themselves Conservatives and the Whigs to describe themselves as Liberals, is a matter of no real importance or historical valac. A Whig called by any other name, a blasted 'Whig' is all the same, is as true to-day as in 1830. The ...

... RUMOURED MINISTERIAL CHANGES. The London correspondent of the Northern Whig. Belfast, says Lord Stanley ofPreston has accepted the Governor-Generalship of Canada, in succession to the Marquis of Lansdow Ile, whose term of office expires next Angust. and ...

... FAILURE OF THE WHIG CONSPIRACY. The meeting of Whig members of the House of Commons to consider the Disturbance Bill was a complete failure. It was called by a body of Whig malcontents, the SOD of the Speaker being one of them. But although circulars ...

... printing of a leaflet giving all account of them. After discussion it was decided to 46ft¡ the matter until Tuesday morning whig another meeting will be held. ...

... political parties in this country, two great regions of opinion, and the Whigs were in one and the Tories in the other; and they could never come together. But more than that, the Whigs were justly proud of a glorious political past, but the Tories had none ...

... we had two parties. well defined, the Whigs and the Tories, and the country was divided between them. There were aristocratic Whigs and aristocratic Tories, and there were Whig commoners and Tory commoners. The Whigs had their origin on the advent of WILLIAM ...

... THE AYLESBURY DIVORCE SUIT I Reported Settlement. I [SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE ECHO.] The Belfast Northern Whig says it is reported that the Marquis of Aylesbury has abandoned the proceedings for divorce against his wife, and that a reconciliation having ...

... other method will Lord Lome get over the fact that his father and he, who repre- sent the great Whig house of Argyll, which was Whig in the brave old days when Whig meant Radical, are cordial and even violent supporters of the party now installed in power ...

... the National Liberal federation, says Ten yar., ago the caucus was an object of terror to the Tories, and ot derision to the Whigs, who were unwilling to recognise that the day of wire pullers and of cliques was over, and that of popular control had set ...

... an's Magazine on the Name of Political Parties. The word Whig is of Scotch origin, but the real meaning is lost in obscurity. says the writer. On turning to Brewer I find that he derives Whig from Whir/gam more, a corruption of Uf/ham more (pack saddle ...

... MR PARNELL AND HOME RULE. REPORTED IMPORTANT CHANGE OF ATTITUDE. The London correspondent of the Northern Whig says t, dty that he has it on unquestionable authority that Mr Parnell, having come to the conclusion that so long as the Irish party insists ...