... there were giants in every walk. The idea was to live luxuriously at the cost of a private establishment. The advent of the Whigs to power was marked by the foundation of the Reform Club, which, after years of building difficulties and debt, still one of ...

... made from reed, it dees not follow that German flute any relation to German Reed. Libel. —It has been actually said that the whigs are likely to become Fenians—because, forsooth, wigs are never firmly attached to the crown. The devil is not so black,” Ac ...

... the present Duke —there is no Marquis of Devonshire—who, before he succeeded to the title, was Earl of Burlington, is an old Whig of the intellectual class ; he took high honours at Cambridge, anil is unlike, in every respect, the giant Irish Protestant ...

... of The Revolution we are bound to drive the party to logical conclusions, or break it into a thousand pieces ns was the old Whig party, unless get our rights.’ That brought him to his pccket-book, and he signed his name Andrew Johnson, with a bold hand ...

... Cabinet in refusing concession or conciliation to America. And what have we now ? When power was to be snatched from the Whigs, Lord Stanley was full of hopes and hints that the Alabama question might be settled. A precious year and half of peace has ...

... THE CULTIVATION OF FLAX DURING THE ENSUING YEAR. The Northern Whig gives the following advice on this subject: “The great difficulty under which the linen trade suflers is the dearness of llax, and the chief remedy for this is to increase the average ...

... Mr. Pendarves, until the year 1811, and again from 1842 to 1837. Sir Charles was a Reformer, but rather one of the moderate Whig school, than of the more advanced politicians. He was elected President of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, at its ...

... Mr. Smith. He said it was well-known that he took but little interest in politics, for he found so many Whigs among Tories, and Tories among Whigs and Radicals, that he did not attach so much importance to it as some gentlemen did—(laughter). Still he ...

... parties, who join so harmoniously in sort of conceit on divers instruments, are the representatives of the Conservatives, Whigs, and Radicals of 183 d and 1838. The subject of Public Schools brought up th e schools of London, using the word in its larger ...

... Derby, it was suggested that the noble Premier would retire from public life, whilst all parlies deplored the . necessity, and Whig and Tory, alike with Radical and Conservative, eulogised his individual character apart from politics. The Times even gave ...

... whether could tell the answer to the boyish riddle* Why is a bald man’s hat like heaven?’ —replied, Because there is not a whig in it.* On Monday evening, Thomas Croit, a county court bAiI.IT, apprehended man named Peter Lever dver. KadclilTe, under two ...

... at the result of the last election, in the hourand-a-half speech which he made them, along with his bow at parting—“ The Whigs have cast me off,” said he, “ and tl«y shall repent it. * I cannot take upon myself to answer for an accurate reminiscence ...