... UPON THE FOREIGN OFFICE. The Standard thinks that it must be dearth of political grievances at present that has caused some Whig contemporaries recently to attack the Foreign Office. It is not, however, the general results of Lord Stanley’s Ministry that ...

... family has never produced any man intellectually better furnished than is shown the modicum of brain needed for an expiring Whig Ministry to foist in one. owning it, as Lord- Lieutenant of a county. The last representative of the Ascalon hero was and is ...

... Russell was Adam Black, Whig of the Whigs., (A laugh.; He did not see that , . r^ much from the Whigs for which they had to thankful for . , , Mr Watson. blacksmith-I admit that. Mr Scott said that the last election the Whigs had a clear majority of ...

... quite wrong imagining that the League were representatrrea of the Whig pirty. Mr Scott—That is what you wanted us to be. Mr Watson said he would remind Scott that when one of the greatest Whig statesmen, Lord Palmerston, came to Scotland, and when a similar ...

... party —Mr Stewart ' will be found faithful to the principles of the Constitution, which it is the common interest of both Whigs and Tories to maintain against the covert devices and insidious attacks of demagogues and revolutionists. In the present time ...

... Kirkcudbright on being saved contested election, and we congratulate Mr Maxwell on the apparent unanimity with which both Whigs and Tories have rallied round him to protest against his own humble estimate of his own abilities. We took occasion some months ...

... Halifax, soliciting from the Whig Government some preferment in the Church. There were many questions which had been productive of controversy in the biography of Swift. It had been a question who was his father. Was he Whig or Tory? Was he Christian? (A ...

... signs that he has broken with that venerable party, which is now rapidly developing into a species of political fossil, the Whigs. If this latest news be true (adds our contemporary), the last and conclusive step of rebellion is taken ; Mr Gladstone will ...

... which had been virtually in power during the period to which he had referred. Referring to the Reform Bill introduced by the Whig Government in the session before last, and to its defeat by a want of union in the Liberal party, he said that that bill, to ...

... was of opinion that it would be quite right to give the universities two members. He did not know whether they would elect Whigs or Tories, but he was of opinion that they would return men eminent for their learning and scholastic attainments. With reference ...

... war if they had been given effect to. The accession of George I. extinguished the power of the Tories, and the triumphant Whigs came in, riding roughshod over their discomfited rivals, and Swift returned to Dublin only to be insulted in the streets, and ...

... seem to have been actuated by the feeling that it was wrong to fete any one who was not a Whig, and who had been opposed to Messrs Gladstone. Bright, and other Whig 3, who hai done everything in their power to throw out the bill, and to prevent it even ...