... changing scens, Nor women with the fashion There's still a rage for crinoline, And love's the mastei -passioo. Still do the Whigs on Qaarter-day Appear extremely jolly; Still the great Quaker loves to brav Long yarns of utter folly. There are some who delight ...

... gentleman, in his blue coat with gilt buttons, buff waistcoat, the costume of the Fox Club, which, as the last of the old Whigs, he invariably wore. It is only of late years that he has ceased to ride on horse- back—like his young friend Lord Palmerston— ...

... the fame of its author as a parliamentary orator. Pitt died within the year with his death his party was broken up, and the Whigs, under Fox and Grenville, came into office. In this ministry, which is familiarly known as that of all the talents, Lord Henry ...

... TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE. So the great patriarch of the Whigs is gone. No Titan of debate; no orator With powers to sway the multitudes of minds As a great master of the organ sways Its multitude d tones; nor yet endued With the deep ...

... course of the last session by Major O'Reilly. The Whites, as they are familiarly styled in Ireland, have always been staunch Whigs, the advocates of civil and religious liberty-in the defence of which principles they have expended large sums of money in ...

... esteemed ai one of the most useful members of the House of Commons. He was almost constantly working on committees. He was a Whig, and the majority of his constituents were Conservatives; but they would hear of no other candidate while he lived, so great ...

... absolute, necessary self-defence, which could not be secured by an ordinary resort to the law. The other local paper (The Whig) used the following language :— We have to say in defence of the act that it was not perpetrated by an excited multitude, but ...

... and fired two guns, but left again before the Federal guns on Tybes Island could be brought to bear upon her. The Richmond Whig, of the 17th ult., says that the bombardment of Port Hudson commenced at two o'clock on the 14th. At twelve o'clock at night ...

... House for Thetford from 1834 to September, 1844. While in the popular branch of the legislature he invariably sided with the Whig party. By his death the Earl of Euston, M.P. for Thetford, inherits the family honours. The present Duke was born August 4 ...

... became Lord Sandys, inheriting title and estates from an elder brother. Lord Marcus was first noted in public life for being a Whig, while his family—his father, the Marquis of Downshire, his mother, and his nephew, the present giant marquis — were all Tories ...

... disposition on the part of the Federals to renew the conflict. Great anxiety exists for further intelligence. The Richmond Whig asserts that the Federals have withdrawn their troops from the peninsula opposite Vicksburg, and have cut tho levee, turning ...

... a short time in the following year held the post of chief Secretary for Ireland under Lord Melbourne. On the return of the Whig party to office and power, in the spring of 1835, he was raised to the peerage, but has not since held any public post or mixed ...