... an off hand and unsuspecting way. Such is the leader for whom some of the Conservatives are waiting, and after whom the old Whigs sigh ; Sir G. Lewis would have served the turn of the latter a model adapted to the present times ; rather than not have their ...

... Bright’s speech was devoted to the question of parliamentary reform. advocated the reform of a Government wielded turns by Whig and Tory aristocrats, half whom owed their origin to the slime and corruption of the glorious revolution, us it was called ...

... devolved u|>on I him county gentleman with ability and courtesy which won him universal respect. In politics Mr. Probyn was Whig of other days than ours, and was firm supporter of his party ; but his political action was confined to the assertion principles ...

... Sir Cbesswell Cbesswell; Sir Geoboe Cornwall Lewis, and the aged Mr. Edward Ellice, two of the most respectable of the old Whigs; and only now, the great humorist, Thackeray, has been called to his account, Among celt-hres the Court Martial on Colonel ...

... of State, and an official whose promotion beyond the cares of office every Indian will rejoice ; Mr. Ellice, Nestor of the Whigs, and the only human being who could lay claim to right of property in the North Pole ; aud Mr. Monckton Miluea, a littiraleur ...

... Solicitor-General on the return of Lord Palmerston office in July, 1859. Inevitably Sir Henry Keating, by the good pleasure of the Whigs, was afterwards made puisne judge in the Court Common Pleas. Then came another conflict, and Sir Francis Goldsmid was returned ...

... notable fact, too, that their sky was ever of unbroken live (laughter). On the contrary, the Assyrians were the out-and-out Whigs of old days, because they went the principle of making themselves happy pulling every body else to pieces. And it is notable ...