... in consideration of the influences which were 'necessarily present during an eventful political career. Lord Macaulay was a Whig of the old school, and, although he advocated the cause of reform up to a certain point, he failed, with all his eloquence ...

... was provided, and, to complete the tout ensemble, my father, who was a determined Whig partisan, insisted on my wearing yellow waistcoat and breeches; yellow being the Whig colour, of which I was admonished never to be ashamed. A more certain mode of calling ...

... we have no doubt that was the reaction from all this that made him conventionalist in morals, an insolent and inconsistent Whig in politics, shallow and inaccurate historian, a poet pouring out of all light and no warmth, and, for an able man, the most ...

... simply place and power, as regards the position of Whig or Conservative. was, who will get in and who will be out; that was the question which prime ministers had to settle, bribe or otherwise. The Whigs, however, have modernised their views, thereby leaving ...

... the debate on the second reading will not be very long now Mr Bere.ford Hope is gone, though, of course, the Hertfordshire Whig, Mr Puller, w ill make an able harangue to prove that church rates are property, and that to take them away is robbery, an' ...

... time ago, a Committee on the Civil Service expenditure. On that Committee there was * young member connected special ties with Whig families, and it was his casting vote that de otherwise immortal Lord of the Treasury. was the consequence to that young member ...

... elected to the present house, should be borne in mind, by a union opposition vote. All his antecedents are whig, and be is a supporter of the old whig doctrines protective tariff, international improvements, a limitation of executive power, devotion to the ...

... making a trumpetof his hand to convey every word to his ear. Strange thoughts and misgivings must haunt Sir Bulwer, for he was Whig once, but suddenly turned Tory when the battle for free trade came on. Ah Sir Bulwer, you should have stuck to the old ship ...

... flinching from colours; Lord Harry Vane uttered murmurs of discontent Sir Francis Baring, one of the most respectable of the old Whigs, expressed dissatisfaction ; Ayrton, it was said, was malcontent; Sir Joseph Paxton was prepared to take the grievance of his ...

... league with the Radicals, have been lifting their heads in Cupar, and now the two sections, with the exception of one or two Whigs, form the whole Council. As is usual in the case of similar combinations, the Tories can now master the Radicals in the Council ...

... passed Advocate, but never practised. He waa from the first a Liberal of the Fox school, a time when it coat something to be a Whig, and he remained ataunch to his party through life. He waa, aa i 8 well known, a zealouB Free Churchman. He was Lord Provost ...

... and farm is in some instances up to point which far exceeds the rates paid in the days of the First Napoleon. The Northern Whig remarks : — Butter is a ready sale at 124s the cwt. for prime, being the highest price known for forty years past; and pork ...