... against the Catholics, but by whom were they enacted ? Why, by the Whigs. Who was it that drove away the last Catholic Sovereign ? Why, the Whigs. In fact, the entire destiny of the Whig party in relation to the Roman Catholic Church has been curious and ...

... 656 656 653 651 It is not a little noticeable that the pure Whigs (save the word I) are invariably the chief sufferers by electoral changes. Fewer Whig vacancies are filled by Whigs than occurs in the case of any other parties. TELE CONDEMNED MURDERER ...

... break, break, Gladstone, thy bridges and boats ; And I would that I could cancel Those two confounded votes. Oh ! well for the Whigs and for me That Dizzy is still in the way ; And well for all that MaLuesbury Cannot come in to-day. And the angry Bright declaims ...

... committee, as emanating entirely from the discontented sections of the Whigs. Something not unlike it is proposed by Lord GREY in the Upper House. There is a large number of the Whigs, who in heart quite out-Tory the Tories, are far more opposed to trusting ...

... committee, as emanating entirely from the discontented sections , of the Whigs. Something not unlike it is proposed by Lord GREY in the Upper House. There is a large number of the Whigs, who in heart quite out-Tory the Tories, are far more opposed to trusting ...

... lists, and in the stormy session of last year open desertion and secret disaffection became common enough. Still that the Whigs should willingly detach themselves from the statesman who has rendered them such brilliant services, and whose reputation and ...

... progress of the Whigs since their complete and apparently permanent settlement in power by the first election under the Reform Bill. The years 1831 and 1832 were years of transition. After the ever-memorable election in the spring of 1831 the Whigs had, indeed ...

... of that conviviality for which the Whigs were distinguished. Le Whig est la femme de votre Gouvernement, says Balzac, and the truth of the remark is especially illustrated in that social influence which the Whigs have always cultivated more than the ...

... finance of the Whigs in his days was a bye' word, and it was the misfortune of Lord Monteagle, then Mr. Spring-Rice, to have been Chancellor of the Exchequer for about half those ten years when, after the passing of the Reform Bill, th e Whigs were on their ...

... of that conviviality for which the Whigs were distinguished. Le Whig est la femme de votre Gouvernement, says Balzac, and the truth of the remark is especially illustrated in that social influence which the Whigs have always cultivated more than the ...

... scribed and discriminated. While admitting, of course, Macaulay's great Whig predelictions, Mr Kebbel remarks that nature had intended him for a Conservative, but accident had made him a Whig, premising that his (Macaulay's) political principles were almost ...

... CONFRDSRATZ ACCOUNT. The Ri,hmond Whig of the 17th contains the following account of the capture of Fort Fisher: ...